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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

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Studies have often found that Black students learn more from same race teachers. The June 2023 research report, “ Tracking Progress Through Michigan’s Teacher Pipeline ,” analyzed prospective teachers of all races, and found that enrollment in education courses has been declining since 2010. Teacher diversity statistics in 2020-21.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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population and more than 13 percent of New York City’s population, per the 2010 census. Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Future of Learning. Weekly Update.

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How one district solved its special education dropout problem

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He remembers thinking it looked like a book you’d find in an elementary school, with a picture of the numbers 1 through 9 written in the sand of a beach on the cover. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. They moved special education classrooms to be more centrally located.

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Held back, but not helped

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Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Instead, she’s surrounded by friends, including elementary-school classmate Rory Williams, who also will be 20 when he graduates. Weekly Update.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

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I would have been a dropout.”. And upon learning that as a member of the Say Yes operations committee he would be required to work closely with Philip Rumore, his longtime adversary and the head of the city’s teachers union, Radford remembers, “I didn’t see how this was going to work. And I do that with [Stubbe]. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

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Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. More recently, the data tracking firm Burbio identified 36 districts that are using pandemic relief funds to start hubs or hub-like learning centers. What’s his name?”

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

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Her high school had recently closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic and shifted to distance learning. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I Escaping poverty.

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