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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

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News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Schools in the bottom quarter of all schools in a given jurisdiction were not ranked, but simply identified as being in the bottom quarter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! Related: Do U.S.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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How career and technical education shuts out Black and Latino students from high-paying professions

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When she asked an administrator at Mount Pleasant High School about this apparent disparity, she said she was told that the audio engineering course was created for “regular students.”. Alphina Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University, wishes she would have been encouraged to take her school’s engineering course in high school.

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What happens when teachers run the school

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She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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Measuring diversity without holding schools accountable won’t bring about integration

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“Income segregation creates districts of concentrated poverty or affluence, but high-income black families may be less likely than high-income white families to live in the affluent districts created by income segregation,” according to 2018 research published by the American Sociological Association.

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

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Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town. She felt more comfortable at the local university, a diverse school with a sizable black population, but she found UNO’s larger classes overwhelming.

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Deadlines, endless forms, constant college prep pressure: Is the finish line in sight?

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But she’s also balancing basketball practice, prom planning, step team and student government, while worrying about a low grade in Spanish. Goals: To get into a school I am excited about and have the financial support to actually attend; to study sociology. If I was behind, the tutor had to stay where I was.”.

Tutoring 106