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Teachers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pain!

The Hechinger Report

Aggregated over the past 13 years — the length of a child’s elementary and secondary school career — Congress has failed to appropriate $347 billion towards the education of low income students, primarily Black and Brown. Meanwhile, ordinary people are left to fill the gaps.

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Rangatiratanga: How Tapping Into New Zealand’s Indigenous Concepts Sparked New Educational Gains

Edsurge

Finally in 2001, the school leadership and the parents jointly engaged in a painful analysis that lead to a profound conclusion: If we don’t change, the results won’t change. The fund provided confidence to the financing company in case parents defaulted on their payments. Education results plummeted along with employment.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. is the Chairman and CEO of Socratic Arts, a company that delivers Story-Centered Curricula to businesses and schools.

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In charter-school oversight, as in foreign affairs: Trust, but verify

The Hechinger Report

A lack of appropriate oversight can be found in Betsy DeVos’s backyard, Michigan, where legislators repealed a cap on charter schools in 2011. Department of Education released an audit of both education management organizations (EMOs) and charter management organizations (CMOs), covering the period of July 2011 through March 2013.