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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

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News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Schools in the bottom quarter of all schools in a given jurisdiction were not ranked, but simply identified as being in the bottom quarter. The correlation is r = -.68 Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack.

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The pandemic is speeding up the mass disappearance of men from college

The Hechinger Report

It’s also opened jobs for young men from Worcester high schools at grocery stores and at Amazon, FedEx and other delivery companies, said Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor at University Park, nearly two-thirds of whose students are considered economically disadvantaged. Now he plans to get a degree in sociology.

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‘We’re stronger than we’ve ever been’: A Mississippi district shows that integrated schools pay off

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Like Pearl, the district organizes its schools by grade level instead of by neighborhood. Despite the districts’ strong performance, there seems to be little effort to replicate Clinton and Pearl’s carefully planned racial and economic integration efforts. Today, about 28 percent of residents are black and 4.5

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Substitute teacher crisis forces districts to turn to local businesses and recent grads

The Hechinger Report

The desperate search for substitute teachers has led some states and school districts to lower qualifications for the people entrusted to educate and supervise America’s schoolchildren at a moment when learning losses are already stacking up. But not enough people have taken advantage, despite the economic downturn and spike in unemployment.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

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A similar gap, though less stark, exists in schools nationwide. Dee, then a Swarthmore College economics professor, saw slight improvements in reading and math test scores when black and white non-Hispanic students were assigned to teachers of the same race.

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

Nationally, black students who have the same family income as white students are much less likely to graduate from high school. Liza Jacobs, principal of Marksville High School. The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. It’s like a legal segregation.”.