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

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A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first.

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#YouToo? What educators need to learn from the Roy Moore election in Alabama

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Related: Charter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their movement. Education departments and school districts take for granted the advanced skills that many black and brown students have. In only evaluating one measure of success, schools are failing their students. Weekly Update.

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What’s school without grade levels?

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Leave this field empty if you're human: “Teachers said, ‘If this is good for kids, why not bring it to all of them?’ ” said Steiner. But we don’t think much about them, quite honestly,” said James Murray, Waukesha’s principal. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

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Gabriella Okparaoko, a student in the Automotive Technology program, participates in indoor track after school. Gabriella Okparaoko was accepted at two high-ranking college-prep charter schools. bus for an hour-long ride to school. It activates their critical thinking — when there’s a problem, how do you react to it?”

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Harvard Law grad helps low-income kids aim high

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Leave this field empty if you're human: “‘You guys have really high grades, so we expect you to be able to at least go to a SUNY,’” Mejia recalls staff telling the group. ‘“But Legal Outreach offers an opportunity to build the critical thinking skills and self-confidence its students’ wealthier peers often accrue naturally.

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Stop trying to reform the reforms; adopt an education philosophy centered on black and brown people

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Others, like charter expansion and school closures, did not live up to the promise Clinton hoped for. In 2014, Bill Clinton forecast his wife’s evolution when he said that charter schools have not held up their “original bargain.” Then, all of a sudden, it did, and schools needed wraparound services.

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How Oklahoma’s superintendent set off a holy war in classrooms

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Unsurprisingly, Walters, too, has advocated for displaying the Ten Commandments in every classroom and also has backed the conversion of a private virtual Catholic school into a charter school; the Supreme Court plans to hear oral arguments on the case on April 30. It goes without saying that Walterss crusade is multifaceted.