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JANUARY 10, 2022

Without a significant change in the economics of education, changing the grammar of schooling is actually the most realistic approach. How could school work if teachers only taught 4 days out of a 5 day school week? At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Perhaps dismantling systemic racism is a task beyond what schools can do. Housing segregation in Louisville has declined somewhat in recent years, but the city is still divided and Black Louisvillians are left out of economic opportunities ; Black poverty in the city and its surrounding county is three times that of white poverty.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high schools. This can have a long-term impact; the rigor of high school courses has been found to be the No. In Washington, D.C.,

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

For example: Micro-credentials were the catalyst for 18 elementary school educators who collaborated to create a school-based program that promoted families as partners in education. In light of the racial unrest in the U.S., micro-credentials sparked this teacher’s motivation to ensure equitable representation in her classroom.

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APRIL 30, 2017

Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics. Is it because black teachers are better educators?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

There are significant differences between schools where children start at or above grade level and where children start below grade level Schools where students enter at or above grade level Schools where students enter below grade level Schools where students enter below grade level, but students grow at least 1.3

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NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. Finland has a wide range of cognitive diversity among its own students, with a third receiving special-education services at some point in their school experience.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. Walsh, Boston mayor.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

I work for Rocketship Public Schools in Washington, D.C. We’re in a city in which 75 percent of students are economically disadvantaged and 45 percent are at risk. We must value families’ humanity by making them part of the solution, rather than always making decisions for them and centering only ourselves as the experts.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Danielle Burnett, a truancy prevention social worker in Albuquerque Public Schools, spends her days figuring out why students miss school. The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If

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APRIL 20, 2020

NEW YORK — When the mayor ordered New York City public schools to close in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Daniel Russo broke into tears. Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless.

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APRIL 16, 2019

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. begin language study in middle or high school. Yet, according to the U.S Timing is Crucial.

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JULY 7, 2023

Though there are a number of strong language programs across the country, a 2016 report published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences showed evidence of declines in foreign language course offerings in elementary schools and middle schools over the years.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Parents and advocates have also called for more teachers who can relate culturally to black New Orleans children and make connections with the communities they serve. Black students who have a black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate high school and go to college.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called.

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MAY 21, 2024

After starting elementary school in the late 1960s, Naomi Hirahara and three other girls formed a clique called the C.L.A.N., But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape. This story was produced by The 19th and is reprinted with permission.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

The idea is “that teachers who share a linguistic and cultural background with their students have a unique role to play in urban schools,” according to program director Laura Delgado. The program’s first cohort also includes an immigrant from the Philippines and another from Bosnia. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

NEW YORK — One of the first lecture demonstrations of Accent Dance NYC took place at an elementary school in the South Bronx, where a large percentage of children lived in temporary housing and shelters. Related: Reimagine schools? Returning to school, in and of itself, is not a consistent outlet.

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APRIL 18, 2022

This is one of many multisensory activities Welch uses in her reading intervention class, a 30-minute pull-out session that meets daily at the elementary school. Coming back from remote instruction, many of the 575 students at Hardwick Elementary School in Lubbock were lagging in reading, said Principal Kim Callison.

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APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. It’s not a thing.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Within a single generation, his family has staked a claim to social and economic opportunities often viewed as out of reach in low-income, majority-Black neighborhoods. In what was a predominantly white suburb as recently as 2000, the student population at Rockwood’s Reynolds High School is now 69 percent students of color.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. A lack of morale and cultural competency.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” That divorce rate is far lower among schools that were founded in partnership with EL, such as Casco Bay, than it is among schools that adopted the model after many years as a more traditional school.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Reporters at both Politico and Education Week highlighted that the average Latino child doesn’t interact with white children at school as much as he or she used to. By 2010, the nation’s Latino children attended elementary schools where nearly 3 out of every 10 classmates were white, on average, down from 4 out of 10 in 1998.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

After schools close in June, parents struggle with finding safe, affordable ways to keep their children engaged. a family with two school-age children can expect to pay an average $2,597 per month for child care, according to calculations from the Economic Policy Institute. Consider that in D.C., Take Allen.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nicole Molière entered a classroom at Harriet Tubman Charter School after she was selected to be part of an innovative local teacher training residency that aims to put excellent — and culturally competent — teachers into high-poverty schools. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Greater New Orleans Foundation report.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Last summer’s racial justice protests jarred the district’s leaders, as did the results of a May survey in which one-fifth of responding students said that they had personally experienced discrimination or unequal treatment at school based on their ethnicity or culture. Report it here.”.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. researchers and educators argue it’s misleading and unhelpful to compare the United States to any top performing country because of demographic and cultural differences. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

They were encouraged to excel academically and to attend college because they were surrounded by people who believed that education would lead them from poverty and a limited set of life choices to independence, fulfilling work, economic self-sufficiency, and the middle class.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“I tell them not to read at the same pace that your neighbors are reading, not too loud that we’re distracting someone, but just enough that you can practice your reading voice,” the second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School said. “So So understanding who kids are as people.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Giving them their own building and cultural activities, intensive personal and academic help, and even free food are among the measures Canadian universities are taking to increase the enrollment and graduation odds of native, or indigenous, students, who get college degrees at less than half the rate of whites. Six thousand died.

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MAY 21, 2016

On Kentucky’s previous state tests, tied to its old standards, over 70 percent of elementary school students scored at a level of “proficiency” or better in both reading and math. By spring 2015, 54 percent of Kentucky elementary school students were proficient in the English language arts and 49 percent were proficient in math.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school. This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: Rowena Phair, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. think tank. and the U.K.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Heather Guenther, Onalaska High School graduate. While the data is imperfect, school enrollment also tells a story of growth. Elementary school enrollment has climbed the fastest, from 327 students in May 2014 to 391 in May 2018, according to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Luis Antonio Hernandez reads a story about Cinco de Mayo to students in Christy Crotwell’s first grade class at Morton Elementary School. Across the country, public schools play a critical role in integrating them into American society and setting them up for long term success: By equipping them with English mastery.

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JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Paul Morgan, an education professor at Pennsylvania State University, said that the economic disadvantage often faced by black and Latino special-needs children has been exacerbated by the way Congress funds special education. But her success was short-lived: She ended up back at Durham Public Schools in eighth grade.

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