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student achievement

The US Is Falling Way Behind in STEM But Kentucky's Powering the Comeback

Maybe you’re already aware, but the United States isn’t exactly globally competitive in science education. As of 2015, we ranked 24th out of 71 countries included in a major international study. If...

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New York

VIDEO: Meet the Bronx Educator Who Uses Hip-Hop to Teach Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-YgBTWUpCk Video Series: Black Male Educators Speak In partnership with Education Post, the Campaign for Black Male Achievement (CBMA) has launched the Black Male...

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Achievement Gap

Here's How Today's Schools Can Evolve to Prepare Kids for the Jobs of Tomorrow

The key three factors most likely to change the nature of future work are: artificial intelligence/robots, demographic changes and concentration of talent in certain locations, according to a new...

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Charter Schools

Coffee Break: Kennan Scott on Cold Brew, Mad Scientists and Teaching STEM to Kids of Color

Kennan Scott teaches engineering at West Oakland Middle School in Oakland, California. Before becoming a teacher, he worked as a transit engineer, where he saw firsthand the isolation and obstacles...

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STEM

Only 6 Women Were in This College Class and One of Them Was My Mom

In September of 1955, Gertrude Mary Long, better known as Gigi, started her freshman year of college at Lowell Technical Institute in Lowell, Massachusetts. (That’s UMass Lowell to you.) Not only was...

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School Choice

Want to Know Why I Came Back to Teach at This Denver Charter School? Equity.

Can you name a decision that changed your life forever? Mine was in 2005, as a freshman in high school in Denver, Colorado. I spent two weeks convincing my parents that traveling on two buses and a...

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