How immigrants learn English in Canada
???? In Canadian schools, immigrants catch up to native English speakers within three years, reports Education Week correspondent Kavitha Cardoza in a video that aired on PBS NewsHour. Thirty percent...
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Remember when every kid counted?
Tracy Dell’Angela remembers when affluent suburban schools had to “worry about whether all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.”...
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Free speech trumps ‘offensiveness’
Oregon’s Liberty High School must respect a student’s free-speech rights to wear a “Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co.” T-shirt, reports Maxine Bernstein on Oregon Live. “A federal judge...
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Connecting working-class kids to high-tech futures
Carlos Huerta, an engineering student at Downtown College Prep Alum Rock High, works on wheels for a “drop-and-dash” robot for the Silicon Valley Tech Challenge. Photo: Joanne Jacobs Silicon Valley...
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Middle school to manufacturing
Destini Williams and Amrose Bhujel test vehicles they’ve made from trash at Woodward Park Middle School in Columbus, Ohio. Photo: Maddie McGarvey/Education Week Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning...
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‘Teachers feel threatened but aren’t backed up’
Gang graffiti on a fence in suburban Long Island, where police blame MS-13 for 30 murders in the last two years. Photo: Sarah Garland/Hechinger Report MS-13 gang members have turned a Maryland middle...
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When tiger kids become parents
Credit: JooHee Yoon/New York Times The son of tiger parents, lawyer Ryan Park wants to raise his daughters to be “happy, confident, and kind,” he writes in the New York Times. They don’t have to be...
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Summer jobs aren’t for teens any more
Immigrant adults are taking summer jobs once done by U.S. teenagers, writes Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner. “Immigrants — legal and illegal — are crowding out U.S.-born teenagers in the labor...
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1/3 can pass U.S. citizenship test
Why did the colonists fight the British? Most Americans don’t know, according to a new survey. When was the U.S. Constitution ratified? Which countries did the U.S. fight in World War II? Asked...
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? What should every American know? Aspen’s Citizenship and American Identity program is asking. The video features four immigrants talking about America.
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If it takes 5 years to graduate, that’s OK
Measuring high school success by the four-year graduation rate is unfair to schools with high-need students, argues Julie Kessler on the Learning Policy Institute blog. Give students five years to earn...
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A Christmas present from Faisal
Faisal got a crooked pine tree from the Yemeni guy at the tree lot, but couldn’t bring it home to his Muslim family. So he dragged it into the classroom of his English Language Development teacher, who...
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Remember when every kid counted?
Tracy Dell’Angela remembers when affluent suburban schools had to “worry about whether all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.”...
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An extra year in 3rd grade helps English Learners
Repeating third grade helps English Learners succeed in middle and high school, concludes a new study of 40,000 Florida students, reports Ed Week‘s Corey Mitchell. Credit: Pixabay Those who repeated...
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Remember when every kid counted?
Tracy Dell’Angela remembers when affluent suburban schools had to “worry about whether all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.”...
View ArticleHow immigrants learn English in Canada
???? In Canadian schools, immigrants catch up to native English speakers within three years, reports Education Week correspondent Kavitha Cardoza in a video that aired on PBS NewsHour. Thirty percent...
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Bilingual ed is back — but where are the teachers?
Dual-immersion bilingual education is wildly popular — with educated, English-speaking parents, if not with less-educated immigrants. In 2016, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 58...
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Biliteracy — for those who need it least
Dual-immersion bilingual programs, which teach English Learners (ELs) and native English speakers in two languages, are wildly popular among educated, affluent, English-speaking parents. They’re sold...
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Remember when every kid counted?
Tracy Dell’Angela remembers when affluent suburban schools had to “worry about whether all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.”...
View ArticleHow immigrants learn English in Canada
???? In Canadian schools, immigrants catch up to native English speakers within three years, reports Education Week correspondent Kavitha Cardoza in a video that aired on PBS NewsHour. Thirty percent...
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