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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

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Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers. Department of Education tracks.

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Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

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“The move to standards-based education with testing on grade level has made multiage classrooms really challenging,” says Diane Friedlaender of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education at Stanford University. Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.).

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Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college

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There is a consumer protection strand of American history, and now it’s higher education’s turn,” said Daniel Greenstein, director of education and postsecondary success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been pressing for better information to be made available to students and their families.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

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My area of research is Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement,” he said. Marissa Bellenger, one of Cassanello’s graduate students, was warned by a visiting professor teaching a lecture course on American history for which she is a teaching assistant. “He Cassanello feels compelled to object. “My

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

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In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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With the nation in turmoil, Ed Secretary King’s quest to diversify schools is the right pursuit

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Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making diversity a federal education policy issue. Secretary of Education, is thankful for attending diverse schools and attributes those schools to his advancements.

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States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

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The anti-CRT efforts to restrict how race is taught have clashed with initiatives in several states, including South Dakota, Oklahoma and New Mexico, to teach Native American history — which has often been left out of instruction — more accurately and fully. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”