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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

The Hechinger Report

Horace Tate is no relic of history; Black principals are still fighting that fight today. We provided statewide access to training and tutoring for assessments in partnership with our teacher advocacy organizations and focused on building community among Black educators.

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Education Needs a Reset. We Can Start by Listening to Our Teachers.

ED Surge

Here in my home state of Florida , we are arguing about how to teach history and whether we can acknowledge the gender identities of students. Without that leadership, we’ll be stymied by the same patterns responsible for the persistent disparities between schools in affluent ZIP codes and those in less prosperous neighborhoods.

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Students as Teachers

Digital Promise

and World History classes. Breakthrough goes further, intensively mentoring most of its students through high school, supporting them with organizational skills, academic tutoring, and college preparation. Within a single academic year, these high school tutors show, on average, two years of reading gains. Not these two.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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OPINION: We must close college counseling’s equity gap

The Hechinger Report

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. and is the author of the book How to Tutor Your Own Child (2011). Related: COLUMN: Two new documentaries showcase a long and winding road to college. She teaches at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.,

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Are your equity efforts aimed at test scores or life readiness?

Dangerously Irrelevant

Unless you teach high school math, chemistry, or history and do so using a very traditional approach – it probably isn’t relevant, important, or useful. … In Jeffco, we say keep the main thing the main thing – and that is student learning.

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

Efforts to recruit teacher candidates from the local community date back to the 1990s, but programs have “exploded” in number over the past five years, said Danielle Edwards, assistant professor of educational leadership, policy and workforce development at Old Dominion University in Virginia.