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How little is too little money for schools?

The Hechinger Report

The Kauffman funding ended in 2006, but by that same year, the Legislature had increased education funding in the whole state by more than $700 million in response to court orders resulting from a suit by several Kansas districts arguing that the state underfunded poor districts. We knew we still had a long ways to go.”. The money runs out.

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How A Strengths-Based Approach to Math Redefines Who Is “Smart”

MindShift

A group of young women who had graduated from high school between 1997 and 2006 sat at the front of the room crying and laughing about their experiences learning math at Railside High (a research pseudonym for the school). Collaboration and Equity in the Elementary Math Classroom. Designing Groupwork. Smarter Together!

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