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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

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Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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Beyond basic reading, kids can learn how to think like a good reader

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Marianne Stewart teaches eighth grade English at Lexington Junior High near Anaheim, California. Marianne Stewart, eight-grade English teacher at Lexington Junior High near Anaheim, California. Teachers, though, can help students learn concrete skills to become better readers. Now, with support from the U.S.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

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In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. 1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

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Sumner Hill Junior High, now the district’s ninth-grade school, used to be a majority-black school before the district incorporated it into its zone. By all of our kids being together, they’re all held to the same standards,” said Beth Raney, president of the Parent Teacher Organization at Sumner Hill Junior High.

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After years of inaction, Delta teacher shortage reaches ‘crisis’ levels

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At some high schools, more than half of the classes were taught by uncertified teachers, including nearly 70 percent of courses at West Bolivar High School in Rosedale, and 61 percent at Heidelberg Junior High School in Heidelberg. That has translated into significant losses at the local level.

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Institutions for foster kids aren’t doing enough to educate them

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She spent junior high and most of her freshman year at a mid-sized public school, earning A’s and B’s in algebra, her favorite class, and playing on the volleyball team. But she was hoping that her cousins would foster her, and she could attend the high school near them. Another foster student, M.S.,

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The only A-rated, majority-black district in Mississippi

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Sumner Hill Junior High is the district’s 9th-grade school. Educators in Clinton say having grade-based schools has helped the district remain integrated. Jackie Mader. CLINTON, Miss. — In districts rated F, more than 95 percent of the student population was black.