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

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Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. The researchers controlled for students’ socio-economic status, race, home language and many other other student and school characteristics.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

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Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. He also taught civics at Democracy Prep Public Schools, a network of high-performing charter schools based in Harlem, New York. Fordham Institute. This story about rethinking U.S.

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LA’s school counselors strike back

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Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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Some Christian schools are finally grappling with their racist past and segregated present

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But like many Christian denominations grappling with historical racism , its preference throughout the 1970s and ‘80s was to ignore that history, Gross said, not to address it. The Southern Baptist Convention , Presbyterian Church in America , and the United Methodist Church have all publicly apologized for their racist histories.

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Don’t say there’s a lack of STEM talent in the South

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Foster’s intelligence and dedication put people into space during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history. Related: Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them. He created hundreds of desirable jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for black Alabamians.

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70 years later, schools — and moms — are still fighting segregation

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But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape. They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools.

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A school closure cliff is coming. Black and Hispanic students are likely to bear the brunt

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Related: Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Debra Houston Edwards, 77, a Washington Elementary graduate and former Jefferson Parish schools administrator “The next 10 years is going to be full of these kinds of stories,” said Douglas N. And so here we are again, going back through the same process.”