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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class.

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

The Hechinger Report

And even if young men resolve to go to college later, he said, history shows that “their chances of actually coming back to higher ed are probably slim to none.”. Now he plans to get a degree in sociology. Abdulkadir Abdullahi, a senior at North High School in Worcester, Massachusetts. “I I didn’t think I was going to college.

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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In

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Nepal says students have a right to learn in their native languages —but it still isn’t happening

The Hechinger Report

Hindi, the medium of instruction there, is easier for Awadhi speakers to comprehend than the Nepali used at the local school. Sodi went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in sociology at an Indian college. “I I know all the Indian political history,” he says. “I But I don’t know who wrote the Nepali national anthem.”

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

A similar gap, though less stark, exists in schools nationwide. And Anna Egalite, an education professor at North Carolina State University, found similar effects for black elementary school students in Florida matched with black teachers. Hispanics account for 21.5

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. The vast majority of these youth graduated from high school, which Duncan describes as “intensely gratifying.” Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

Most still read at an elementary school level. By her sophomore year, Williams was earning all A’s and B’s, and Sci’s test scores were the best of any open-enrollment high school in the city. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers.