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Sensible Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The Holocaust Study Tour blog created by a New Milford High School teacher and her students who travel abroad to Europe on an annual Holocaust Study Tour provides is a great example. School administrators can use blogs as a powerful public relations tool in lieu of traditional newsletters and email blasts. What about you?

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

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We fill an entire school here.”

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

The Hechinger Report

“Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Jessica Ramos, a 17-year-old senior at Skyline High School in Oakland, California, sits outside the Oakland Town Hall with her dog Lucky. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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OPINION: The pandemic has dashed and deferred too many college dreams

The Hechinger Report

High school students tend to dream big. According to the national nonprofit YouthTruth , in 2015 and 2016, over 84 percent of high school students reported wanting to go to college. Amid the pandemic, an unprecedented number of high school grads are putting their college dreams on hold.

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What the research says about the best way to engage parents

The Hechinger Report

Anne Henderson, National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement. Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior.

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District says 24 credits and a D-minus average aren’t good enough

The Hechinger Report

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

The plaques provide a “platform to have a conversation both about our history and also the direction that we see ourselves going as an institution,” said Katrina Caldwell, the school’s first vice chancellor for diversity and community engagement, who started the job in January of 2017.

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