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JUNE 10, 2024

American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative. In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

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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of public school educators are of Asian descent. The Settler Identity There are many teachers of color that can trace their arrivals - whether voluntarily or forced - back to lands occupied by the United States government. One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. This work needs to begin in elementary school, where students’ ideas about their place in the world are shaped.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Credit: Image provided by Yancy Sanes And yet, there is a broad bipartisan consensus that schools have an obligation to prepare citizens to participate in a democracy. Others have argued that without a robust understanding of the workings of government, “action civics” provides a “sugar rush” without enough substance.

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MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision declared “separate but equal” unconstitutional and required the integration of those schools that were segregating students. The post From Brown v.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. Questions about what we can learn from the history of education are familiar to Larry Cuban, a longtime education historian and school reformer. Schooling is intricate, and very complex.

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MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. Across party lines, the public supports museums, rating them as one of the most trustworthy institutional sources of information in the nation — more credible than local newspapers, nonprofit organizations and the U.S.

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MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Despite mounting evidence that schools are not turning out to be major incubators or vectors of Covid-19 transmission, New York City shut down its public school system in November. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Even before the pandemic, STEM achievement gaps in K-12 schools were significant.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

Native American parents at Havasupai Elementary School in Arizona are suing the federal government and the Bureau of Indian Education for failing to educate their children, practicing excessive exclusionary discipline, violently restraining students and denying the community’s federally protected right to participate in school decision-making.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The union, Child Care Providers United, represents workers who care for children receiving government subsidies, enabling the professionals to collectively negotiate with the state on matters such as compensation, benefits and working conditions. She just called out of the blue,” said Sanders, “and she goes, ‘Oh, my God, you’ve made history!

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood. Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

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MARCH 23, 2021

When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio shuttered the nation’s largest public school system last March, I had a feeling the pandemic wasn’t going to be over quickly. My friends assumed schools would be closed for a couple of weeks, maybe a month. Hank Drucker is a sophomore at The Beacon School in Manhattan.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

ATLANTA – It’s unclear to Tameka how — or even when — her children became unenrolled from Atlanta Public Schools. This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In California, some 70 schools had been directly affected by wildfires as of early September, said Kindra Britt, director of communication and strategy with the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association. Students from Greenville will have the option of attending another school in the district unharmed by the fire. “It

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Housing is everything,” said Melissa Douglas, the liaison for homeless students in the Kansas City Public Schools district. It’s going to further disrupt kids whose lives and learning processes have already been upended by school closures.” Evictions are rampant and often mark the start of a slide into prolonged homelessness.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Student protesters from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida demand government action on firearms. Here’s something to think about when you hear people question whether student protests are appropriate: We seem to have forgotten as a nation why we created public schools. Not so much. Not so well.

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JUNE 23, 2020

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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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

education problem more painful and paralyzing than persistent gaps in educational outcomes between black and brown students and their white peers, many decades after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that racial segregation of children in public schools is unconstitutional. government also acknowledges. There is no U.S

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APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. Across the country in California, worsening fires, floods and droughts have forced some educators to contemplate a school calendar marked by natural disasters.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Every campus in the parish school district sustained damage; internet access has been spotty at best. Now a middle school technology teacher at S.P. Arnett, a public school in nearby Westlake, she can relate to her students.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. William Hite , superintendent of Philadelphia’s public schools. Young people are glad to be back in school. Steven Weber, associate superintendent for teaching and learning for the Fayetteville Public Schools.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

million public school children enrolled in special education in the United States, 13 percent of all public school students. Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. We could get no one to listen or do what was needed.”.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

While dozens of colleges and universities use a “great books” curriculum, only a handful make it available to local high school students. How are the masses best governed? This summer’s students met with the city police chief and president of the local school board; they also had dinner with a New Haven alderwoman.

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JUNE 14, 2021

The push for equity among PTAs in those cities hit sometimes fierce resistance before advocates found ways to calm fears that wealthy parents might disinvest from — or leave — public schools. Research suggests the practice has no significant impact on overall giving to schools.). Less than a quarter of public schools in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. Jaisalmer, India — Once a year, history lecturer Vijay Kumar Ballani and his colleagues go door-to-door in this rural village, imploring parents to send their children to a cinderblock complex that lacks classroom space, bathrooms and desks.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

That fall he was briefly admitted to a psychiatric hospital after threatening to hurt himself—just after he started seventh grade at Sobesky Academy, a public school in a suburb of Denver. Education equity advocates are demanding that the federal government do more to learn the scope of the problem.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS).

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Still, society’s dominant narrative is one of poor blacks whom government and other institutions must help to overcome their situation, which is in large part inextricable from the lack of equity and access that still plagues America’s minority communities.

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JUNE 15, 2022

Here are some voices from our third round of interviews, in which we asked people involved with their local public schools for their reflections on how the past year had shaped them, and their predictions for the next school year, among other topics. school district is investing heavily in early literacy.

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JULY 17, 2017

As an in-school family support specialist, Stubbe serves as a liaison between students, families and a number of health, legal and academic support services provided by local community organizations. The Say Yes promise of universal free college tuition to all Buffalo public school graduates has grabbed public attention.

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OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. It’s been a frustrating experience, working with the Department of Justice,” said Hooks.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

They also say it’s in the universities’ self-interest, coming as it does at a time when decaying surroundings and urban crime discourage applicants, cash-strapped local governments are pushing these nonprofit institutions to pay more for the services they get, and the public has a low opinion of college costs, management and value.

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MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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