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Fourlis and others also see team teaching as a way to set their schools apart as a new universal voucher program in Arizona goes into effect, potentially drawing more families and teachers away to private schools. It’s almost like we have to give up our humanity to become a teacher,” she said.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

I recently heard a fellow from one of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s programs speak about her research on the impact of racial stigma and stereotypes on African Americans’ sense of agency, worth and humanity. Related: I got to choose private schools, but will vouchers really help other kids make it?

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MAY 21, 2018

In our nation’s capital, 81 percent of the public schools require a uniform; 65 percent regulate the length of skirts; 58 percent forbid tank tops; 42 percent ban tights and/or leggings; and 45 percent require students to wear belts, according to the findings of the report, which was published by the National Women’s Law Center.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.

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MARCH 29, 2018

“This is self-perpetuating,” said the superintendent, Patrick Sánchez, who is trying to change that culture and hangs out with students as a mentor and a coach. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. and “What is the capital of Greece?” It does not.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Not so in Galt. Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools? Jennifer Collier, who champions strength-based learning in Galt as the district’s extended learning supervisor, says ideally there would be a Gallup-trained strengths coach like her at each school. Weekly Update.

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JUNE 23, 2016

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. million people, the country is significantly smaller — the Baltic nation also has its share of cultural diversity. In fact, many U.S. College is free.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

School officials tout the arts-based curriculum and the joy they say it brings students, but acknowledge that side-lining test preparation has caused test scores to suffer and lowered the performance grades the school receives from the state education department. New Orleans has always been a deeply divided school system.

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APRIL 23, 2018

It’s 2018 now, yet we’re still dealing with court desegregation orders from the ’50s and ’60s; with charter school advocates who proudly accept that they’re more segregated than their traditional school peers; and a judicial nominee who wouldn’t say if she agreed with 1954 Brown decision. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Mindfulness programs can vary widely from school to school —- from audio recordings of meditation instruction played a few minutes each day, to entire classes for mindfulness and anything in between. Doug Worthen, mindfulness director at Middlesex School. We see kids not staying up as late, getting better sleep.”

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MARCH 20, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We just feel our kids need to be with us more. Too many of them, the experiences they have outside of school aren’t as positive as what we wish,” Harrison said. “My Related: This country spends billions on private schools — and has a terrible learning gap between poor and wealthy. “We

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NOVEMBER 17, 2018

But I think it’s fair for us to expect other human services professionals — whether they be in education, health care, anybody who is a mandated reporter — to use their independent judgment and discretion and understand there are consequences to making that call.”. For them, transferring schools can feel like the only way out.

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By laying out the vision and tone for the inclusive culture of her school, she provided a perfect snapshot of effective school leadership a topic that we at UNESCO s Global Education Monitoring Report (which tracks progress on global education goals) think deserves more attention. They deserve our support.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This story is the third of a three-part series that examines how other countries approach the idea of school choice. Read about school choice in New Zealand and Sweden. Parents are freed from financial constraints and can pick a school in which their child will thrive, leading to improved academic outcomes for all children.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Colleges and universities prefer to recruit at high schools in communities where the average family income is above $100,000, while forgoing visits to those where it’s $70,000 or lower, according to a study of 140 institutions conducted by researchers at UCLA and the University of Arizona. It’s kind of a golden cage,” she said.

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JULY 6, 2016

In the window of a Morton Catholic outreach center, a sign in both Spanish and English seeks recruits: “Hang live birds for processing in a humane manner. The Tupelo School District, in the northwest corner of the state, has found the approach to be effective. I’m trying to teach them that they have a culture they need to care about.”.

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MARCH 17, 2025

Second graders would be asked to identify stories from Christianity that influenced the American colonists, Founders, and culture, including the teachings of Jesus the Nazareth (e.g. Normans Pride organization participated, with its human angels wearing wings lit up in rainbow colors. the Golden Rule, the Sermon on the Mount).

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JUNE 26, 2018

However, to collapse education and labor into a single agency is to also reduce education’s role in developing full human beings. Children need to view themselves as full human beings, as citizens even, something a good liberal arts foundation provides. Department of Health Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services).

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s stance on school choice has created unlikely alliances with deep-pocketed conservatives and has put him at odds with mainstream civil rights advocates, but his work is impacting a younger generation of black school leaders striving to create culturally relevant institutions for the students they serve.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Culture wars, school vouchers and a peculiar fixation on ending the federal Department of Education. Two of the first three paragraphs of Project 2025’s education plan call for universal school vouchers. Both items follow a general statement about making great schools. What do they emphasize?

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump also supports efforts to privatize the K-12 school system, including through vouchers for private schools. He has also warned schools that, if reelected, he would cut or eliminate federal funding if teachers or school employees suggest “to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body.”

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AUGUST 12, 2024

School choice Harris, who was endorsed by the nation’s largest public school teachers unions, has voiced support for public schools, but has said little about school vouchers or school choice. Educating Early Read comprehensive coverage of young learners with Hechinger’s biweekly Early Childhood newsletter.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Defense Department began restricting access to books and learning materials in the school system it oversees for the children of military families, citing the Trump administrations crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, according to The Washington Post. Read more: Arizona gave families public money for private schools.

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