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SUPERINTENDENT VOICE: As a Latina, my leadership sets me apart and gives me a chance to set an example

The Hechinger Report

In the United States today, 9 out of 10 school superintendents are white and two-thirds are white men. As a Latina, my leadership isn’t often expected, nor is it always welcome. I believe our efforts can provide an example for any school system dedicated to closing opportunity and achievement gaps for all students.

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The BrandED Conversation

A Principal's Reflections

I had just finished back-to-back projects that resulted in Digital Leadership and Uncommon Learning, which took up a great deal of my time. As a result we embarked on a journey to delve into how a brandED mindset could help promote, sustain, and amplify the great work taking place every day in schools across the world.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. But even in districts and states that include student board representatives, students rarely have voting power.

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OPINION: To the rescue — The schools we need now are community schools

The Hechinger Report

And researchers have reached consensus on the common features found in different types of successful community schools: integrated student supports; expanded learning time and opportunities; family and community engagement; and collaborative leadership and practice. “We

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

(School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.) Younger students attend the K-8 campus on the former boarding school site, while the high school is located in a gleaming new tower nearby at the Central New Mexico College. No language class, nothing,” Joshua said of his previous school. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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

The Hechinger Report

They are far more likely to suffer low self-esteem, they increasingly fall behind in other subjects and they likely won’t graduate from high school. Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade-level by third grade are six times more likely to drop out of high school than their more affluent peers.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

In upstate New York, a high school English teacher said, “I remember driving into school not wanting to go in, being really sad and just crying. I thought to myself, ‘I don't have anyone that I could talk to in my entire school that has any idea about what's going on right now.’”

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