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Joy Oozed From My Classroom When I Was a Teacher. As a Principal, I’m Carrying That With Me.

ED Surge

Many of our students, who are predominantly Black and Latino, found that these posts resonated and decided to participate in the movement by publishing blog posts about surviving charter school, exposing some of the harmful racist, classist and ableist practices they experienced in school. What makes me happy?

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OPINION: Teachers need our help in tough times like these, so let’s give it to them

The Hechinger Report

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. In Milwaukee Public Schools, teachers had access to biweekly virtual coaching to support the switch to remote learning. There are different approaches.

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LA’s school counselors strike back

The Hechinger Report

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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OPINION: How our youngest, neediest learners benefit from deeper phonics and other reforms

The Hechinger Report

Casey Foundation shows that children who read proficiently by the end of third grade are more likely to graduate from high school and to be economically successful in adulthood. I still remember my excitement to borrow books from the school library so that I could better understand life beyond my poverty-stricken world.

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Silicon Valley aims its tech at helping low-income kids get beyond high school

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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OPINION: Rethinking school choice policies, the ‘myth of meritocracy’

The Hechinger Report

Related: School district secessions gather speed, new report shows. It also laid the groundwork for a robust market of goods and services designed to help families learn the “hidden curriculum” of school-choice policies and engage in choice behaviors that yield desired school assignments.

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This program is helping fast-diversifying suburban schools promote success for all students

The Hechinger Report

The performance of minority students on standardized tests at Ridgeview historically has lagged behind that of white students, according to staff, who note that black and Hispanic students are much more likely to come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools.