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

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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. College-bound students still need the traditional course sequence and cannot substitute data science for advanced algebra.

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

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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?

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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.”. Hirsch, Jr. The results have not rewarded our faith.

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

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

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Fuller’s stance on school choice has created unlikely alliances with deep-pocketed conservatives and has put him at odds with mainstream civil rights advocates, but his work is impacting a younger generation of black school leaders striving to create culturally relevant institutions for the students they serve.

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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

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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.