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PROOF POINTS: Why are kids still struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

Maybe you can do that in social studies. This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. A study by researchers at the University of Southern California , released Aug. These kids just missed 18 months of school.

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Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

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She tutored at two D.C. She taught social studies and worked as the “dean of culture,” a role that allowed her to plan field trips and work with families on discipline issues. She wanted to major in psychology and minor in criminal law, she told me. Every textbook and institution told us our legacy was a powerful one.

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Kids with obesity do worse in school. One reason may be teacher bias 

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Moriah Ratner for The Hechinger Report Finn found that the teachers were more likely to view the students with obesity as academically inferior, “messy” and more likely to need tutoring. In surveys, teachers also predicted that students with obesity weren’t good in other subjects such as math and social studies. “To

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

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In Nevada, in fact, parents can spend state education dollars any way they please — on private, public, online, part-time and full-time schools, on tutoring and extra books — through education savings accounts, which an advocate for them calls “the purest form of educational freedom.”.