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

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Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. Also, the students at these charter schools were largely from middle and upper middle class families.

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Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools

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The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. The high school, which enrolls less than 200 students, has been able to offer as many as 17 Advanced Placement courses. Lake Oconee Academy is a charter school. Kim Smith, a mother of three in Greene County.

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OPINION: The charter school debate is more complex than either side admits

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.” Take Elizabeth Warren’s recent attack on charter schools. million pupils, “strain the resources of school districts and leave students behind, primarily students of color.”. Carpenter, who is black, added “None of the schools in my community was working.” as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter schools.

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More charter schools means fewer early education options, new research shows

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The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. During the school year prior to Hurricane Katrina, there were 67 pre-kindergarten seats for every 100 public-school kindergarten students.

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

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On the verge of finishing high school, Allison Dinsmore doesn’t know yet what she’ll do after she graduates. It’s a few months before she’ll graduate from Newark Memorial High School and Allison Dinsmore doesn’t have a plan for what will happen after that. .” NEWARK, Calif. —

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

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Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But instead of graduating from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in four years, he took six. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years. Sign up for our newsletter. Higher Education.

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TEACHER VOICE: Preparing kids for high school math isn’t enough — they need to hang on to their new skills until fall

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For an eighth-grade math teacher like me, the arrival of spring means I’ve almost finished teaching the concepts my students need to succeed in high school. No physics in high school. As the teacher for the next school year, the level of loss determines how much review time needs to be built into the schedule.