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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

I [recently] approached two of the eighth grade and the sixth grade social studies teachers with doing some professional development with me using media literacy and critical thinking across the curriculum, teaching students to decode the world. I wish every school was resourced with a full-time, certified school librarian.

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Students analyze rap lyrics with code in digital humanities class

The Hechinger Report

Nilsson teaches at Deerfield Academy , a private school in western Massachusetts. The type of text analysis he guides his students through is far more common in colleges and graduate-school programs, but the coding that makes it possible is an increasingly popular skill to teach children.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

schools, especially those that serve low-income children, have moved in the opposite direction. Educators have felt pressure to cut time for science, social studies and the arts in order to carve out more time for reading and math, the two subjects that are tested annually by every state and by which schools are judged.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. During its first year, the charter school’s student body was 70 percent white; enrollment in the local public schools was 4 percent white.

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States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

The Hechinger Report

Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed an executive order in April 2022 restricting how race and equity can be taught in the classroom, Tilsen-Brave Heart decided to enroll her daughter at Oceti Sakowin Community Academy, a newly opened private school in Rapid City. It’s knowledge about culture and history and traditions in language.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

Revere’s school district is one of the leaders in Massachusetts in advancing student-centered learning, which is surprising on multiple levels. It’s an approach associated with affluent private schools — free from state curricula and testing mandates. Revere is moving to spread student-centered learning across its 11 schools.

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