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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. The same goes for middle and high school options.

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Norway law decrees: Let childhood be childhood

The Hechinger Report

The government’s view isn’t that child care is a place to put children so parents can work, or even to prepare children for the rigors of elementary school. million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. It’s about protecting childhood. “A

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Jenna Saykhamphone, a senior at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, helped start an equity team at her high school to fight stereotypes both inside and outside her school in suburban Washington, D.C. We want to be able to learn like the correct kind of information about our history.”

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