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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. Fiske had been previously employed by an independent school in California, while in a doctoral program for education psychology, researching how people learn, she says.

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TEACHER VOICE: When it comes to teacher training, the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Canada

The Hechinger Report

Education is a provincial responsibility in Canada and is highly centralized by the Alberta government. The curriculum is developed and coordinated by government officials and staff, but the writing is done largely by committees of practicing teachers according to agreed-upon directives (a broad curriculum revision is currently underway now).

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

He implemented the American Indian Telecommunications Satellite Demonstration Project, linking the All-Indian Pueblo Council and the Crow Indian Reservation with the federal government at Washington, D.C. Addressing the psychological and spiritual aspects of healing was important as well.

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The Best Science Podcasts

TeachThought

The Science of Happiness: This book explores scientific insights into happiness and well-being, backed by research in positive psychology. All in the Mind Lynn Malcolm hosts this excellent (and award-winning) show that is entirely centered on stories about the human brain, touching on fields like psychology, neurology, and more.

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The magic pebble and a lazy bull: The book ban movement has a long timeline

The Hechinger Report

I was beyond shocked that somebody from our state government was asking what books were available in our school libraries. The five members of the school board who voted to ban the book did not have children in any public schools governed by the district. My superintendent forwarded it to me. It was in the evening,” she said. “I

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Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61 

The Hechinger Report

Its also never been so at risk: First a federal funding freeze hit providers, then a chunk of Head Start federal support staff were fired by the Department of Government Efficiency. As a young psychology professor at Yale, Zigler was hired as an advisor to President Lyndon Johnson to help design family programs for the federal War on Poverty.

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