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Teaching to the student, not the test

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Revere High School students eating and socializing in the cafeteria. Most days in Nancy Barile’s English course at Revere High School, a visitor might begin to wonder when the real class is going to start. Revere High School’s adjusted four-year graduation rate rose from 71.5 REVERE, Mass.

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

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Mask mandates in place at the beginning of the school year faced some resistance and were lifted in the spring. Ben Lawson , band and choir director at Redmond High School. Ben Wilson and Kami Karr stand outside of Redmond High School, in Oregon. Kami Karr , senior at Redmond High School.

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Teaching about the climate crisis: Jubilant protests, restorative justice and role play

The Hechinger Report

The other thing I try to do is a lot of role plays for social studies and history. In the book you include Emis school assignments on the great transition along with written feedback from her teacher. I also remember doing a big project on the New Deal in high school, and I just felt completely detached from it.

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