Stories

Learning loss

School Sucks When It's Full Of Time Sucks: Making Extended Time Count

Chronic absenteeism has nearly doubled in public schools across the country since the pandemic. Better than a quarter of students are missing 10% or more of school days. According to recent data,...

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Social Emotional Learning

Here's Why We Must Focus On Civics In Public Schools

We believe in the more perfect union described in the soaring opening sentence of this country’s Constitution. We all must believe in it for the country to endure. And for it to endure, we in...

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Diversity

Teaching Patriotism: Embracing Multiple Paths in Our Curriculum

The future of civic education and social studies is on the ballot in November. Hold your eye roll. I know this is instance No.1,292 of someone telling you that catastrophe looms for “X” if you vote...

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bias

Study Confirms: White Educators Harming Black Girls With Biased Discipline

A Black child will have a fundamentally different schooling experience than their white peers. A new federal report shows that bias in the daily experience of school for Black girls is profoundly...

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Black Excellence

Empowering Kids Through Stories: Dr. Ruth Obiarinze's Overcomer Series

Dr. Ruth Obiarinze has loved reading since participating in reading contests at the local library as a child, so much so that she became an author herself! She recently introduced "The Overcomer...

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Achievement Gap

96% of Pennsylvania’s Teachers Are White. That’s a Problem.

Imagine a doctor knowing vital, life-saving information about your health, but not sharing it with you. It would be not only unacceptable, it would be grounds for dismissal. Choosing not to act, when...

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