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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

“Students who share racial and/or gender characteristics with their teachers tend to report higher levels of personal effort, happiness in class, feeling cared for, student-teacher communication, post-secondary motivation, and academic engagement.”. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 The share of U.S.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. “I wouldn’t have been able to use that strategy at the secondary level,” she said. “The tutor taught her some of the basic skills that the child wasn’t getting in her whole language classroom,” he said.

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