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PROOF POINTS: How Covid narrowed the STEM pipeline

The Hechinger Report

government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math. Yet another explanation is a psychological one.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

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The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School. 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.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. 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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How flawed IQ tests prevent kids from getting help in school

The Hechinger Report

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. It even happens in preschool, this withholding of academic supports.”

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A solution to the cycle of poverty?

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As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. Related: Homeless students set adrift by school closures face crisis after crisis. Last spring, Ciera Pritchett watched her life fall apart. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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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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When Williams and her classmates began considering colleges, Marcovitz wanted the teenagers to have the same experience he’d had at Maret, a prestigious private school he’d attended on scholarship in D.C. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s.