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Nepal says students have a right to learn in their native languages —but it still isn’t happening

The Hechinger Report

An analysis of the last three years of Banke district’s final secondary education exam results—conducted at the end of 10th grade—found that only 30 percent of students who scored a GPA higher than 3.0 Students learn Nepali during a May 2003 lesson at the Mahendra Jhoti Secondary School in Chaurikharka, Nepal.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

December 2003. Indicator 6: Elementary and Secondary Enrollment. February 2019. A Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching. Educational Leadership, September 1995, 53(1), pp. Pewewardy, C., and Hammer, P.C. Culturally Responsive Teaching for American Indian Students. Teaching To and Through Cultural Diversity. Phuntsog, N.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. During his tenure, he focused on aligning the Department of Education’s work on three key issues: early education, educator quality, and secondary school reform. An educator since 1973, Ray has been a teacher, vice principal, principal, and superintendent. About the Host.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The strategy was bolstered in 2019 when Gordon attracted a national college-promotion program called Say Yes. Enrollment fell by 7 percent from the 2019-20 school year to 2020-21. Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon meets with colleagues at his office.

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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The Ontario Curriculum (by the Ontario Ministry of Education): Maybe the best example of how to weave media literacy fundamentally into primary and secondary school curricula. Snapshot 2019: The State of Media Literacy Education in the U.S. (Note: The template is linked near the bottom of the article.) Connected Learning Alliance.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

But it wasn’t until the ASCA adopted a national model in 2003 that mental health gained an official role in school counseling duties. A year later, in 2019, lawmakers added $20 million to a school safety program that until then had paid only for armed officers on campus. We also have to understand it’s everyday gun violence.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur High cost of dropping out.

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