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OPINION: New leadership at the top should mean big changes for English language learners

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This required extra time to create my own lesson plans, adapt our school curriculum and find supplemental materials to help my students connect with the grade-level content. That’s because the curriculum I was given didn’t consider their language needs and was devoid of the cultural richness EL students bring to the classroom.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

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The Global Online Academy will host a free course about designing online lessons starting March 16 (added because of popular demand for its first course, which is running this week). The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings has a webinar scheduled for 3 p.m. It’s these schools that are so far still the norm.

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

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Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores. It also plans to analyze lesson plans created by the 1619 Project , which grew out of a series of New York Times stories that reframe American history around slavery and its consequences.

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Making ‘Big Data’ useful rather than scary for teachers

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Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. Instead of showing educators spreadsheets full of numbers, they create color-coded charts that can quickly reveal achievement gaps or widespread strengths and weaknesses. Also, there’s a psychological factor.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies By November, when a slate of Republican school board candidates who’d campaigned against DEI was elected , the changes started to come hard and fast. The new DEI committee was disbanded in early 2022, as students continued to report racial hostility.