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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

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Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 They learn something in one language and build on it in the other.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

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Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. To her left, Makayla offered: “My sunshine share is the part where we learned about oak trees.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Weekly Update.