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Teaching Irish American History

Studies Weekly

Teaching Irish American History Mar. This overview of Irish American history can help you teach students why they see so many Irish influences today. Most of these immigrants traveled from Ulster a province in northern Ireland to escape religious persecution and economic hardship. Shannon from Westfield State College.

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How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia

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Partway through our conversation on Indigenous history, music, and language, Calfunao lit up when he discovered that we were both metalheads. The national government also incentivized European settlement on these lands, with the goal of economically and ethnically incorporating these territories into the new Argentine nation-state.

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What if public schools never reopen?

The Hechinger Report

American public schools may never fully recover from the coronavirus crisis. In the next few weeks, public schools in the U.S. The coronavirus pandemic forced schools across the country to switch to remote learning this spring. This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education.

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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide

The Hechinger Report

While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. At a public school,” said Ward, “you might be lucky to meet with some students once for half an hour or 45 minutes.”.

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A community college could transform a region — and help itself grow. Will voters buy it?

The Hechinger Report

In exchange, residents would qualify for in-district tuition and trigger a long-term plan to build out college facilities in this rural stretch of Texas, which is positioning itself to tap into the economic boom flowing into the smaller communities nestled between Austin and San Antonio.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7 percent while staffing rose 8 percent. Follow the money.

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COLUMN: Now imagine if your school closed for good

The Hechinger Report

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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