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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. MESA, Ariz.

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

Still, to those orchestrating the integration process, this first year of limited integration succeeded well enough, and plans were made to send other carefully chosen black students into the elementary and junior high schools in September 1965.

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The Hechinger Report

Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.” Still, the Commission held, the majority of Greenville’s citizens — planters, business folks, community members — all understood that they were better off with diverse, unified public schools. By 1977, the U.S.

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The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

The Hechinger Report

I left behind the ‘trying-to-fit-in’ in middle school,” she said. “I Some days, Jarrin, who earned extra money tap-dancing in the French Quarter, arrived at his middle school dead tired. Still, he was held back twice, in fifth grade and again in junior high. “It For four years, she had blended in.