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7 Black History Month resources to use the whole year

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This year’s 8th most-read story focuses on Black History Month resources educators can use throughout the school year. During Black History Month, educators have the opportunity to delve into the difficult–and often uncomfortable–experiences of Black people in the U.S. and around the world.

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? It makes the test more fair because it guarantees that everyone is being measured with the same degree of precision.

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Civics Education Is Essential for Creating Engaged Citizens. I’m Hopeful It's About to Make a Comeback.

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One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” history and civics for the first time as upperclassmen.

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Why This Startup Is Banking on VR to Build Empathy

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For topics such as history or SEL, a first-person perspective allows students to see life through the eyes of others EdSurge: Tell us about the early days of VERE360. Engagement is defined here as students’ attention, retention and a deeper understanding of a concept. What was the driving force for you and your team to adopt VR?

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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms

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And a lot of our history in education is written through with racial and social class-based exclusion, where people have been excluded from school settings and from selective school settings as a function of race and class. So maybe you give the kid attention, but then you go talk with them about it and you hear what their experience was.

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EdSurge’s 2020 Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories, as Chosen by You

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At the end of every year, EdSurge rounds up a collection of its top stories based on clicks, shares and website traffic—and no year in our short history has been quite as dramatic as this one. And what can teachers do to make sure that their students are paying attention? But researchers have been trying to answer them for years.

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We Live in a Diverse World. The Books Kids Read Should Reflect That.

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Historical fiction has its place, to be sure, but there’s a lot more to diverse history than the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” by Vashti Harrison. For years, the options available seemed to be few and far between. Up next on my reading stack: “Island Born” by Junot Diaz. “I

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