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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. Boaler says a half million teachers now visit youcubed’s website each month. She advocated for change.

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PROOF POINTS: Leading dyslexia treatment isn’t a magic bullet, studies find, while other options show promise

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In New York, where I live, the city spends upwards of $300 million a year in taxpayer funds on private school tuition for children with disabilities. Many more states mandated hallmarks of the Orton-Gillingham method, specifically calling for “multisensory” instruction. Science evolves.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”. The results have not rewarded our faith.

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What My Girls Camp Reveals About the Promise of Women in STEM and the Dangers of Online Hate

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. i in the last two years.

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Lessons from NOLA: Ailing Mississippi district should be wary of charter schools

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

million — Shortfall this year in the yearly allocation for Jackson Public Schools. Jackson schools are grappling with the loss of about 1,000 students to other districts, private schools, charters and home schooling, along with an increase in the number of students who aged out, dropped out or graduated compared to those entering the system.

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Ethics in the Classroom

Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2017

Should middle school teachers let a failing eighth-grade student graduate, knowing that if she’s held back, she’ll likely drop out? Should a private school principal condone inflated grades? Ethical dilemmas abound in education.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

Twelve miles south of Western Middle, at Stuart Academy, another middle school in Louisville, eighth grade math teacher Louis Redd was beginning to grasp how much his students were struggling. She joined a program called “ Justice Now ” dedicated to empowering students to organize projects around social justice issues important to them.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From Marcus Garvey to Malcolm X, the notion that separate and equal is not only possible, but in some cases preferable, has been a rallying point for those who believe that black educators should be the ones designing and leading schools for black children.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of the remaining white families send their children to a private school that opened more than 50 years ago to help white children avoid racial integration. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school.

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Support Betsy DeVos, shoot yourself in the foot

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government-funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice. Related: Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice.

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Vote for America

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Denial of ongoing racial injustice and attacks on social justice-oriented remedies and protections. A Department of Education that favors the 10 percent of students in private schools over the 90 percent in public schools. White supremacy, racism, bigotry, and hate toward our family members and neighbors of color.

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Ahead of Betsy Devos’s confirmation hearings, some thoughts on why the face of school choice belongs to parents, not politicians

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2017

History proves, however, that no one politician or philanthropist, for that matter, can fill that role – it belongs exclusively to the low-income parents who seize it as a mechanism for social justice and their children, who need it the most. When she accepted the award, she said “And now all the parents are in the BAEO Hall of Fame.”.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

PROOF POINTS: Leading dyslexia treatment isn’t a magic bullet, studies find, while other options show promise

OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

What My Girls Camp Reveals About the Promise of Women in STEM and the Dangers of Online Hate

Lessons from NOLA: Ailing Mississippi district should be wary of charter schools

Ethics in the Classroom

The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

Support Betsy DeVos, shoot yourself in the foot

Vote for America

Ahead of Betsy Devos’s confirmation hearings, some thoughts on why the face of school choice belongs to parents, not politicians

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