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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

Edsurge

That’s one thing Katie Worth, a former reporter for the PBS show Frontline, found while researching her new book, “ Miseducation ,” about how schools teach climate science. And so of course I wondered, if they moved here, what would he learn about climate change? The book is called “Miseducation.” But many kids in the U.S.

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Why all screen time isn’t created equally

The Hechinger Report

The thought is so alluring that parents often ask early education teachers what the best apps are, said Lisa Guernsey, speaking at the national seminar of the Education Writer’s Association in Nashville this week. The Learning Accelerator on blended learning: `In the future, we’ll just call it learning’. Related stories.

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Teachers go to school on racial bias

The Hechinger Report

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. Attendance is nearly 95 percent, the number of students meeting or exceeding academic standards in English is on par with statewide levels and the school reported zero suspensions in 2018. “I We’re going to deal with it in every way possible,” he says.

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How Schools Can Help Teachers Understand and Address Racial Bias

MindShift

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. Attendance is nearly 95 percent, the number of students meeting or exceeding academic standards in English is on par with statewide levels and the school reported zero suspensions in 2018. We’re going to deal with it in every way possible,” he says.