The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

SEATTLE — Mireya Barrera didn’t want a fight. This story also appeared in The Seattle Times For years, she sat through meetings with her son’s special education teachers, struggling to maintain a smile as she understood little of what they said. On the rare occasions when other teachers who spoke Barrera’s language, Spanish, were asked to help, the conversations still faltered because they weren’t trained interpreters.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The post Meet the K-12 Tech Innovators of the VITAL Prize Challenge appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If you’re a history buff, you may already know that Cleopatra had a substantial amount of rizz. King Henry VIII, on the other hand, could be considered the Tom Sandoval of his time. Meanwhile, Czar Nicholas II struggled to, well, pick a struggle. History teacher Lauren Cella's "Gen Z Teaches History" series has earned about 30 million views on Instagram and TikTok combined.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 24, 2023

You turn on the tap in your kitchen, and without a second thought, you drink a glass of the water that comes out. Where are you? Most probably in one of the countries marked blue on the map. If you can drink tap water without giving it a second thought, you are a member of a very exclusive club, globally speaking. ( Credit : © William Gottlieb / Corbis via Getty Images) Those are the countries where the CDC says the tap water is potable, which means safe to drink, to prepare food and brush

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Daniel Lim reads through the resumes of prospective college students with the excited patter of a color commentator at an NFL game. On his popular TikTok channel, the Duke University senior highlights the seemingly endless number of ultra-achieving students who fail to land acceptances at selective colleges, or, more often, who win some bids and lose others.

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