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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Youth drug use is trending down. He wrote about his findings for the organization Child Trends. Subscribe today!

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#getESEAright: Make some noise for school library funding on Thursday night

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Studies show test scores trend higher in schools with full-time, certified school librarians. activism advocacy twitter' Using the hashtag #getESEAright, ALA joins forces with NEA’s planned Twitter storm on Thursday, April 9 th from 7:00 till 8:00 PM Eastern. billion student visits a year! getESEAright with the SKILLS Act.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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A sociologist, Noguera’s research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional, and global contexts. Noguera, Ph.D. is the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A. Domenech.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates. A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5

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New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

School officials are often surprised by their own spending trends, once they see them. Marguerite Roza, an economist at Georgetown University and the director of its Edunomics Lab, has studied how spending choices play out in district budgets. And the additional costs of small schools and magnet programs can fly under the radar.

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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Social studies is sometimes seen as an afterthought, left out of daily instruction, he said.

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