The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

WILMINGTON, Del. — Striding into a packed community center filled with high school seniors, Atnre Alleyne has a few words of advice for the crowd, members of the first class of college applicants to be shaped by June’s Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admissions. “You have to get good grades, you have to find a way to do the academics, but also become leaders,” said Alleyne, the energetic co-founder and CEO of TeenSHARP , a nonprofit that prepares students from underrepresented

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The post Portrait of a Learner: How Backwards Design Can Be a Pathway for Success appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Blue dots represent the 75 schools that were eligible for the right-to-read settlement program of training and funds. (Source: Sarah Novicoff and Thomas Dee, Figure A1 of “The Achievement Effects of Scaling Early Literacy Reforms” working paper.) In 2017, public interest lawyers sued California because they claimed that too many low- income Black and Hispanic children weren’t learning to read at school.

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TCI

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A lot can happen in a year, especially in the classroom. Take a look back with us on the features and enhancements we released in 2023 to help meet the changing needs of your classroom. New Ways to Engage and Challenge Students 2023 was a year of engagement at TCI. We released new features to engage all students, including games played 2.1 million times and videos viewed 4.2 million times.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

SALISBURY, Md. — Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for transport to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation. This story also appeared in The Associated Press Over the past eight years, the process has been used more than 750 times on children.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When Rachel Perera was in high school, she dyed her hair red. Perera attended a Catholic school in Queens in New York City with a rigid disciplinary regime. The hair got Perera in trouble because the school said it was an “unnatural color,” she says. “And I was like, well, unnatural for who? This feels really arbitrary,” Perera says. It’s a feeling she recalls having a lot.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Next year will mark seven decades since the U.S. Supreme Court declared racially segregated public schools to be unconstitutional. Even the current Supreme Court’s conservatives have embraced that Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Yet, 70 years after Brown, a key obstacle to racial equality in education continues to be white resistance to racial integration and to adequate funding for the education of Black and Latino children.

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