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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

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Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

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Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Who suffers the most?

educators

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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

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history has resulted in persistent unequal access to opportunity. Some leaders have responded by endorsing policies that attempt to reduce the impacts of these “implicit” biases. Chin is a doctoral candidate in education policy and program evaluation at Harvard University. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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How gaps in content knowledge hold students back

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Systemwide, there’s not much emphasis on what students read to practice that skill.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

For the purpose of standardized tests, this principle serves as a reminder that efforts around assessment are not separate from the necessary work of culturally responsive teaching , equity, trauma-informed practices , and research-based pedagogy. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Harvard University Press.

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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R. Teachers afraid of this may steer an unnecessarily wide path around painful history that needs to be discussed.

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Teachers go to school on racial bias

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They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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