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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

The science and social studies topics should be sequenced so that the ideas build upon each other, and paired with vocabulary that will be useful in the future. The big question is whether the theory that more knowledge improves reading comprehension applies to real schools where children are reading below grade level.

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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

The Hechinger Report

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” The San Diego charter school, known as HSHMC, has expected content teachers to integrate literacy into their lessons since its 2007 founding.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

ED Surge

One of the places that I first encountered where I was like, ‘Oh, there's some kind of interesting teaching and learning here,’ was a charter school that I visited in Southern California, and they had adopted Google Docs relatively early and were making really great use of it. And most teachers are patient pragmatists.

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Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy

ED Surge

Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Jefferson was struck by how much of an impact this could have on K-12 schools in Kentucky. School also taught Ta to conduct research, which was helpful.

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State takeovers of ‘failing’ schools are increasing, but with little evidence they help students

The Hechinger Report

On June 1, the TEA took over Houston’s school district, removing the superintendent and elected board. Critics say it’s an effort by a Republican governor to impose his preferred policies, including more charter schools, on the state’s largest city, whose mayor is a Democrat and whose population is two-thirds Black or Hispanic.

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Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

The Hechinger Report

What is this article about?”. I wasn’t sure how to explain to a rising high-school junior why I’d followed her and her classmates to Belize. Douglass High School, the Ninth Ward charter school where she works, and she’d told me, in passing, that she planned to take twenty-five kids to Belize.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.