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TEACHER VOICE: Students deserve classroom experiences that reflect their history

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But no matter how the conversation starts, the students — nearly half of whom are Black, Asian, Hispanic or multiracial — often come back to complaints about the lack of diversity in our school’s textbooks and educational materials. Here are a few ways we can do this: Improve instructional materials.

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

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Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Students were also given related books to read during the summer.

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One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

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After somewhat predictable sections about low teacher pay and the need for better teacher-training pathways, the report includes a section on a topic so mundane it’s almost startling: “Demonstrate Respect and Value for Teacher Time.” Teaching is like two full-time jobs,” a Texas teacher who recently quit wrote in a survey to the task force.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

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Schools generally elected to spend most of the settlement money on salaries for new staff and extra compensation for current teachers to undergo retraining and less on new instructional materials, such as books or curriculums. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

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A 2021 article, “ They Say You Can Do Phonemic Awareness Instruction ‘In the Dark’, But Should You? ” Twenty years after the reading panel’s report, a second meta-analysis came out in 2022 with even fresher studies but arrived at the same conclusion. Sign up for the Proof Points newsletter.

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Number of States Reporting Lexile and Quantile Measures Doubles

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October 1, 2018 – RALEIGH, North Carolina – More students and parents will receive Lexile and Quantile scores on high stakes test reports this school year than ever before. In all other states, Lexile and Quantile measures are used and reported at local levels.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

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But district leaders, administrators and teachers have incredible demands placed on them, which were exacerbated by the pandemic and while there are high-quality materials available, they’re not compiled. The working group also developed sample scope and sequences for both the elementary and secondary level.

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