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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Related: Theater helps English language learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap? percent of the U.S.

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Eight Ways To Teach Climate Change In Almost Any Classroom

MindShift

Common Sense Media has a list of climate change-related movies for all ages. The 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth and its 2017 sequel, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power have curricular materials created in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation. Before the Flood has an action page and an associated curriculum.

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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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How Playing With Math Helps Teachers Better Empathize With Students

Educator Innovator

She taught public high school students, deaf elementary school students, and middle school girls at a single-sex school. She has always thought of herself as a reader and a writer, not a math person, but when she started teaching elementary school she decided to take some classes to brush up on her math skills.

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How Playing With Math Helps Teachers Better Empathize With Students

MindShift

She taught public high school students, deaf elementary school students, and middle school girls at a single-sex school. She has always thought of herself as a reader and a writer, not a math person, but when she started teaching elementary school she decided to take some classes to brush up on her math skills.