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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job. So then she retired. That's what I do.

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Lessons from Boston: “no excuses” charter schools kept boosting student test scores after expansion

The Hechinger Report

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools.

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In a city still struggling with segregation, a popular charter school fights to remain diverse

The Hechinger Report

NEW ORLEANS — The central tenet of nearly any successful recruitment strategy is to emphasize the positives and downplay problems, but Josh Densen was engaging in a different kind of hard sell at a school tour back in early November. I believe Bricolage is a school for all kids, but not all adults.”.

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Some questions for Betsy DeVos

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here are a few of my favorites: Would you please state, concisely, any relevant experience you have had in public education, either as a student, a teacher, a school leader, a public school board member, a parent of a public school child, a PTA member, a volunteer in a traditional public school or as someone who once drove past a public school?

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High school should be more like preschool

The Hechinger Report

For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. What happens is that the academic pedagogy keeps getting pushed down, down, down and quashing what early childhood development is all about.

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Hidden in Plain Sight

ED Surge

We supplemented the Learning Salons with a broader opportunity designed to engage leaders and decision makers from states’ district and charter school teams, practitioners, researchers and funders in a showcase of BIPOC-created solutions where they learned about undiscovered teaching and learning solutions and tools.

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After years of inaction, Delta teacher shortage reaches ‘crisis’ levels

The Hechinger Report

Educators say the message they constantly get from lawmakers is that traditional public schools aren’t worth investing in. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? The opening of three charter schools since 2015 hasn’t helped, costing the district students and the money that would come with them.