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A new kind of high school diploma trades chemistry for carpentry

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Alabama state law previously required students to take at least four years each of English, math, science and social studies to graduate from high school. Mackey said the state added career coaches in recent years to ease the counseling workload, but in many districts there is just a single coach, who rotates among schools.

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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

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Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. We highly recommend that you take the race implicit bias test.

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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

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Students come here from miles around to meet—first-come, first-served—with advisers for help navigating all things higher education, from admissions tests to majors to meningitis shots. At a table with stacks of flyers advertising scholarships, a family confers quietly with a counselor. The advice is free. They don’t feel intimidated.”

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Admittedly, I find it hard to counsel them when the value of a diploma and the future of society keeps moving before I have time to adjust. Louisiana, where I teach, is one of eight states in the country that requires a passing score on standardized tests to receive a diploma.

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What Public School Teachers Want: Less Disruption

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Terms such as “professional learning communities” and “data-based instruction” take the focus off of children as developing human beings, and force conversations to be about standardized data points from benchmark tests and high-stakes standardized assessments, which can dehumanize the way we address student needs. What do teachers want?

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Online YC Demo Day Includes A Byju’s Rival, Quiz Bowl App, Parenting Advice Platform

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With price packages that range from from 499 rupees (about $7) a month to 1,499 rupees (about $20) for two years, EduRev offers videos, notes and practice tests on subjects that range from business and programming to engineering and economics. The platform hosts more than 500 courses and 100,000 videos, documents and tests.

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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

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Currently, Roybi has about 500 lessons, stories and songs, promising to introduce children in school or at home to over 70,000 words in English, Spanish and Chinese. The company did not disclose their names. Subjects include colors, animals and shapes. The robot is not yet available; when it is, the company says it will retail for $299.

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