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TEACHER VOICE: ‘As Covid-19 disproportionately affects Black communities, my students will analyze how difficult times can be a catalyst for societal change’

The Hechinger Report

I don’t know anyone who felt equipped to jump to remote learning effectively overnight. As I’m preparing for another round of distance learning, I’m now able to reflect on what can be done differently. Related: What if public schools never reopen? That starts with federal funding. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

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Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. And they aren’t the only ones advocating the adoption of such curricula.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History.

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What Is the Secret Sauce for Deeper Learning?

Cult of Pedagogy

When Fine and Mehta set off to find examples of deeper learning, they assumed they would find it in places that had been ostensibly set up for that purpose, innovative schools built on a foundation of project-based learning, exclusive schools that were known for strong academic programs, and charters that had reported remarkable academic gains.

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School data is messy, but it doesn’t have to be

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Leave this field empty if you're human: That’s the mindset Mote wants all school districts to take on. Subscribe today!

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High school should be more like preschool

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But several trends once relegated mainly to progressive schools or alternative schools for at-risk students are reaching the mainstream and have even been embraced by entire states. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S

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Massachusetts districts now trade notes on best paths to personalized learning

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Blended learning was the gateway to personalized learning in the Natick Public Schools, about 20 miles west of Boston. The district made sure each child had a laptop to use in class almost a decade ago, according to the current director of digital learning, Grace Magley. Public Schools.

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