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The habits of 7 highly effective schools

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“There are many schools that are effective at helping students learn, even in high-poverty communities,” said Sean Reardon, a Stanford sociologist who was part of the team that developed the Stanford Education Data Archive. The seven schools also emphasized student-teacher relationships and built a caring community.

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Women’s History Month should have a place for teachers

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Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Santos is the director of journalism and media arts for the Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts in Washington, D.C. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Related: Learning while you earn in college.

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Join Us For the filmMAKER Challenge Webinar Series

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In the first webinar, Emma Scripps (IDEO, Teachers’ Guild) and Jess Lura (Bullis Charter School) gave advice on using specific tools and routines that can help you navigate this uncertainty. We hope you find this video archive of that webinar insightful and that you might join us for future webinars listed below.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

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The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves is offering “The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy,” described on its website as an “archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history course at the Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. “I

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

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At the same time, Holmes school board officials allowed the town of Durant, which was 51 percent white, to split off into a separate district. By 1970, just 24 white students were enrolled in Holmes County public schools, according to an archived report.

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California voters poised to gut English-only instruction law

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The evolution in thinking on the value of bilingual education and the specifics of the voter proposition was covered in depth by The Hechinger Report in this story from our archives. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph.

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Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts

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Woodworth built his research career documenting the benefits of charter schools and is now a fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University. Archiving and crowdsourcing data Researchers at the private research organizations have been describing internal efforts to rapidly archive data.

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