Parents, kids and the promise of reading
? Parents promise to read with their children. Kids promise to read on their own. NPR’s Anya Kamenetz writes about Springboard Collaborative, which runs after-school and summer programs for struggling...
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Two schools, different futures
Jada, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, attends a high-performing high school in a Boston suburb under a voluntary busing program. An honor-roll student, she takes French and intensive math classes...
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Halloween ban: It isn’t ‘inclusive’
Since not everyone celebrates Halloween, nobody will celebrate Halloween at Lincoln Elementary School in Evanston, a Chicago suburb, reports Christen A. Johnson in the Chicago Tribune. “No party, no...
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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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Poor immigrants, successful kids
“Immigration to the United States has consistently offered a route to escape poverty, if not for poor immigrants themselves, then for their sons,” writes Emily Badger in the New York Times. She cites...
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What’s lost on the way up
Upward mobility has “ethical costs” for first-generation students, argues Jennifer Morton, a philosophy professor at City College, in Moving Up Without Losing Your Way. University of Texas at El Paso...
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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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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 ArticleSchool Supports A Student
From CNN: An immigration judge has granted asylum to a Connecticut high school student whose arrest sparked an outpouring of support from teachers and classmates… After ICE arrested Aguilar in...
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Why some are learning more at home
Photo: Julia M. Cameron/Pexels Without classroom distractions and social pressures, some students are thriving with home-based learning, reports Nora Fleming on Edutopia. “Shy kids, hyperactive kids,...
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‘I had to learn how to walk in this new place’
Not being able to “walk” at graduation was only one of the challenges students at KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate, a Massachusetts K-12 charter, had to overcome, writes Hermon Kaysha in Education Post....
View ArticleHamilton too?
? Lin-Manuel Miranda’s wildly popular rap musical, Hamilton, is streaming on Disney+ in honor of Independence Day. But Hamilton could be canceled by the “social-justice mob,” writes Kay S. Hymowitz....
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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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American culture is red, white, blue, brown, black …
Johann N. Neem started becoming an American at the age of three, when his family moved from India to California, he writes in the Hedgehog Review. He played with the other kids in the neighborhood,...
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Asians are white; studying is cheating
Thomas Jefferson High students, parents and alumni protest a plan to drop the admissions test and admit students by lottery to the prestigious public high school. Seventy-nine percent of students at an...
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Discovering a new Columbus Day
In Boston Native Americans led a march Saturday calling for celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day. A statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence, Rhode Island was painted red last...
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Get those kids back in school
Remote learning’s failures can’t be fixed by handing out Chromebooks or hooking them up to broadband, writes Tanesha Peeples on Education Post. It’s a lot worse. Schools have lost track of three...
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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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