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Reading Role Models: Why They Matter for Boys

Fractus Learning

Advocating for 9–14-year-old boys and their reading lives is my passion and specialty, however, because I’m female, this hasn’t been an easy row to hoe. Currently, girls outperform boys in reading achievement and have closed the gap in math, science, and technology. Football Role Models versus Reading Role Models.

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How flawed IQ tests prevent kids from getting help in school

The Hechinger Report

Barlow immediately resisted, because she knew the curriculum would likely focus on life skills, and her son might never be taught much reading beyond learning the shape of common, functional words like stop and exit. “I In Lester’s case, he struggled to learn to read but never got appropriate help.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Scientific American During the initial weeks of first grade, Odegard’s struggles with reading went undetected as he memorized words that classmates read aloud before him. It then became apparent that the six-year-old not only wasn’t the strongest reader in the class—he couldn’t read at all.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

Her contributions include developing literacy implementation and professional development services, leading gold-standard research initiatives, instructional design of a reading intervention program for striving adolescent readers, and an intensive reading intervention program for phonics, phonemic awareness, and fluency development.

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How to Encourage Girls in Your Classroom to Get Involved in STEM

Waterford

Read on to discover the barriers that women in STEM face and how you can help counteract them through lessons and classroom strategies. Lack of female role models in STEM. Introducing girls to female role models in STEM can also help them feel empowered.[2] There Is a Gender Gap in STEM Education, and Here’s Why.

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The latest group to get special attention from college admissions offices: men

The Hechinger Report

If I can’t read or write at college level, I can’t show that.” If I can’t read or write at college level, I can’t show that.” One of the most difficult challenges can be breaking through the conflicting messages men and boys have been getting from family and friends for years. There’s an expectation for a male,” he said.

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PROOF POINTS: Black and white teachers from HBCUs are better math instructors, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Almost a quarter of the students were Black and they did just as well on their annual reading and math tests with a white teacher as they did with a Black one. It also failed to find higher achievement in math, reading or science for students taught by a teacher of the same race.

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