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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

Culturally responsive teaching encompasses little steps like adding diverse books in your classroom library , as well as larger ones like adjusting your curriculum to include voices from marginalized communities. Picture books for early elementary students: Drawn Together by Minh Lê, illustrated by Dan Santat. December 2003.

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How School Districts Are Shaping the Edtech They Use

eSpark

Over 1,000 Mineola elementary school students are using eSpark in four buildings throughout the district, while a team of Mineola middle schoolers helped us build new product features to better engage and challenge students. Vision and Virtual Support with Piedmont City Schools. Piedmont, Alabama. Berwyn, Illinois. Mundelein, Illinois.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America.

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

An elementary schooler in the same district couldn’t access a picture of record-breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. Students in Texas are supporting a state law that would limit what schools can censor, and the American Library Association hosts Banned Websites Awareness Day each fall.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The winners of this year’s Harold W McGraw Jr Prize in Education : Dr. Christine Cunningham, Founder and Director of Engineering is Elementary (EiE) at the Museum of Science; Dr. Sandy Shugart, President of Valencia College; and Chris Anderson, TED “curator.” Graduate students at American University have voted to unionize.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

E-rate is the name commonly used to describe the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. A $3 million settlement paid by the New York City DOE in 2016 over accusations of mishandling the bidding process. Who has benefited? A History of E-rate Legislation.

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