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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

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President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., How much of No Child Left Behind’s legacy still lingers on in its successor? Related: The Every Student Succeeds Act includes some new ideas on how to train better teachers.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

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Piña Mota said she would have felt more comfortable asking for help in navigating how to pay for college, for example. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 They both believe that having Hispanic teachers might have made a difference in their education. population as a whole by 2060. The share of U.S.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

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The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” Related: How to help struggling young readers. Kids must be explicitly taught how to connect sounds with letters — phonics. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms.

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Is Head Start a failure?

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If all continues apace, the largest public program in the country could be just one step ahead, creating a road map for how to operate an early education program big enough to serve more than a million children without sacrificing quality. One of the key elements to Head Start has always been its emphasis on local control. But the U.S.

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For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns

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By comparison, whiter metros such as Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Minneapolis have some of the lowest concentrations of security guards. 5, the philanthropic groupommunities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is set to release a new report that will show educators how to foster connectedness in schools.