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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had a problem: Only 56 percent of third-graders in his district had scored proficient on the state reading test. By 2015, the district had turned the corner financially, and Silva was wondering why the reading scores were so terrible.

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

The Hechinger Report

As of fall 2015, Coahoma County’s three private schools collectively had 7 percent African American enrollment amid public school systems that are more than 90 percent black. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Habari gani!”

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

The Common Core. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced in October of last year that he’d step down at the end of 2015. Despite the common invocation of the Internet as a world-wide network, “net neutrality” is not recognized globally. Political correctness. Foreign students.