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How flawed IQ tests prevent kids from getting help in school

The Hechinger Report

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. The district relented, agreeing to let him attend the school.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In class, students study all the familiar concepts of high school English, but they’re applying these concepts to a work they care about passionately. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Not only did Caleb never return to his local school, but he learned little throughout his elementary, middle and high school years — which included hundreds of hours struggling through computer lessons in math, science and social studies. Some of this helped.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. We don’t want to lose students.