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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

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Performing the Autopsy Proponents of the detracking effort see themselves as fighting against the tide of the countrys education system and, even more difficult, its culture. But is that true, and if so what would it look like?

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

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When it started, Fiske claims Mysa was the first school to call itself a microschool. But these days, microschools — loosely defined as schools with relatively few students that function as private schools or learning centers for homeschool students — seem to be everywhere. And she isn’t the only one with that worry.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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Although Black Americans reinvented and established a unique culture, we’re eternally connected to the sub-Sahara. It opens with an explanation of its title and its connection to Black culture. The chapters in this anthology illustrate the magic of educators co-creating with students and sharing power to uplift students’ voices.

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It’s Time To Take Teacher Burnout Seriously. Here’s How.

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As we’ve expanded our work and research to schools and colleges across the country, there’s a shift emerging: it’s not just students and their families in desperate need of support. It is educators themselves reaching out for our help. The educational climate is rapidly deteriorating, the ripples of which we have yet to fully feel.

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Black Families Turn to Microschools and Homeschool for ‘Safety’ in Education

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More established ones are overseen by one adult, often a former teacher or a parent with an advanced degree related to education, and students and parents play an active role in setting school culture, according to Wood. In part, Wood views the schools as addressing the continued fallout of the pandemic.

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How Desk Chairs Became a Lesson About What We Deserve in Public Schools

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Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. For context, these mobile desk chairs were all the hype in the mid-2010s, popping up in every private school or innovation academy that screamed flexible seating. What Our Students Deserve Our public school students deserve the world.

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What My Girls Camp Reveals About the Promise of Women in STEM and the Dangers of Online Hate

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CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. i in the last two years.