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

The Hechinger Report

One can study the students at schools that have adopted the Core Knowledge curriculum, but it’s hard to know if the students who attend these schools would have scored just as high in reading if they had been taught the usual way at a traditional public school. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”. Students who serve on the committees learn how to research, organize and identify solutions to issues in their schools, said Salgado.

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

ED Surge

Should local communities determine how education gets funded and who has access to public schools —or should the federal government intervene? And for the general public, the group wrote up summaries of its first-semester courses and made them available for free. “I DAOs have popped up with various goals and functions.

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Reading, writing and arguing: Can a summer of big questions push students to college?

The Hechinger Report

Nearly half — 46 percent — major in the humanities or social sciences, Lee said. While dozens of colleges and universities use a “great books” curriculum, only a handful make it available to local high school students. More engaging than traditional summer school. It begins to become manageable.”.

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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

The first draft discouraged tracking children into separate math classes by achievement levels, and proposed delaying algebra until high school. It emphasized “social justice” and suggested that students could take data science instead of advanced algebra in high school.

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COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change? You’ve got to train them

The Hechinger Report

Schools have to address student climate anxiety, provide them knowledge and skills, including the ability to recognize misinformation, and empower them to act, while schools also “clean up their act” by decarbonizing their physical infrastructure. We’ve been doing research with New York City Public Schools for the past 6-7 years.

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First Things First When Teaching Civic Education

MPSA

We were also advised that school districts’ legal councils would not approve any project in which students provide their own transportation to a school-sponsored event, due to fear of lawsuits. It was published in PS: Political Science and Politics in 2014. About the Author Michael A. Bob Grover and Rob Catlett. 

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