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It’s the parents’ culture
Finnish children do well on international tests — even when their families have moved to another country, a new report from two European economists finds. It’s not just Finns, explains Jeff Murray in...
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Immigrant teens choose jobs over remote classes
Photo: Kevin Laminto/Unsplash At a Los Angeles high school, counselor Antonio Roque goes from house to house — masked — trying to solve technology problems and persuade students to log in to online...
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Into adulthood
Jeff Hobbs’ Show Me You’re Good focuses on teenage boys trying to get into college — and manhood — in Los Angeles. Some are charter school students from desperately poor, immigrant families. Others go...
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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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At home, immigrant’s English is ‘slipping away’
Trying to learn a new language on an iPhone screen, with no casual conversation with English-speaking friends, is a disaster for immigrant students, writes Juliana Kim in the New York Times. When...
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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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Boston: 40% ‘chronically absent’ in 11th, 12th grade
Forty percent of 11th and 12th graders are chronically absent in Boston Public schools, reports Naomi Martin in the Boston Globe. Teachers fear absent teenagers will never complete high school. Photo:...
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Where did our babies go?
Happy Mother’s Day to all you “birthing people.” I was born into a classic baby-boomer family. My mother married at 22 in 1949 (Dad was 27) and had the first of four children in 1950. There are six...
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STEM futures start in third grade
STEM scholarships for 12th graders come way, way too late, writes Andrew Rotherham on Eduwonk. Many low-income, Black and Hispanic students are off the STEM path by third or fourth grade. Chinese...
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‘America is the land of opportunity’
Asked if they’re “proud” to be Americans, Georgetown students (all female) said not really, reports Ophelie Jacobson for Campus Reform. Several used the word “embarrassing.” ? I was talking to my new...
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Teens choose jobs over high school, college
Locked out of high school in Memphis, Hispanic boys are working construction jobs and taking pride in helping support their families, reports Chalkbeat’s Ian Round. Photo: Ivan Samkov/Pexels Will they...
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Keeping Chinatown kids down
Boston’s Chinatown is home to high-achieving, low-income students. Hard-working, high-achieving students from Asian immigrant families will have a harder time getting into Boston’s exam schools under a...
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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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Absenteeism is way, way up
Photo: Pexels/Pixabay Absenteeism is way up in California schools due to quarantines, Covid fears and disengaged students, reports Carolyn Jones in EdSource. Stockton Unified said that so far, 39% of...
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Students stranded in Afghanistan
Afghan refugee family in America. Photo: Opening Doors Sacramento-area school officials are trying to help students trapped in Afghanistan and their families get home, report Sawsan Morrar and Jason...
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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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