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OPINION: After years of silent sacrifices and unseen struggles, Black women are still holding up the child care industry

The Hechinger Report

Recent reports indicate that 95 percent of child care workers are female. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that child care workers make an average of $14.22 This is in addition to the drop of more than 90,000 (42 percent) licensed family child care homes between 2005 and 2017. workforce, 18 percent of U.S.

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Engaging Parents & Families in Language Learning: Lessons Learned the DCPS Way

Battelle for Kids

The federal government recognized the critical need for world language in the 2005 Call to Action for National Foreign Language Capabilities , a historic gathering of minds from across government, industry, language associations, and academia that resulted in a shared vision for the need and imperative of world language instruction.

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Backdoor expulsion: Some preschools pressure or force children to transfer as punishment

The Hechinger Report

But toward the end of my reporting, I spoke with a researcher who said the practice is rampant in preschool. What information is available suggests that small children are routinely punished in school: A 2005 study by Yale researchers found preschoolers are more likely to be expelled than students of any other age group.

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PROOF POINTS: Long-term college benefits from high-quality universal pre-K for all

The Hechinger Report

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. Children without preschool managed to catch up to those who went to preschool.

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95 Percent Group Unveils 95 Phonics Core Program for Grades 4 and 5

eSchool News

The 2022 National Assessment of Education Progress – the Nation’s Report Card – revealed the average fourth-grade reading score was lower than all previous assessment years going back to 2005, dropping back to 1992 levels. Research on reading instruction has been very clear for more than 20 years.

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Climate Change Took a Heavy Toll on the U.S. Last Year. What’s the Cost to Education?

Edsurge

last year, as tallied by a recent federal report. Damage from disasters like flooding, cyclones and wildfires can shutter schools for long periods, a Brookings Institute report says, or cause students to miss school due to illness or damage to their homes. The report authors were particularly concerned about repercussions for girls.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Stanford has said it’s reviewing the complaint and hasn’t decided whether to open an investigation, according to news reports. This story about Jo Boaler was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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