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

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Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Additional activities reinforced the lessons.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

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She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. psychology class. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

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Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum.

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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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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

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She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. But most schools lack funding or capacity for adequate counseling services for students and staff. “In In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers” Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College.

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Students are supposed to read The Scarlet Letter, not wear it

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Batcho in a Psychology Today article last year. Feig Gray recounted how one of her teachers in high school history class shamed students in an attempt to garner greater involvement from the classroom. Related: Charter school leaders should talk more about racism. Related: Bold, progressive ideas aren’t unrealistic.

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PROOF POINTS: Borrowing a page from marriage therapy in the classroom

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Gehlbach, together with two other researchers, put perspective taking to a real world test at a charter school network in the northeastern United States. His theory, and hope, is that students’ need or desire to misbehave might be reduced if they feel a positive connection with the teacher at the front of the classroom.