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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. Texas had the highest amount, at 20.2

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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Its allowed schools to open up competing career pathways in the back end of high school, whether students pursue calculus for science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers or instead learn data analytics or quantitative reasoning.

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How ZIP Codes Determine a Child’s Future — and What We Can Do to Fight Back

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In the late '90s, I would walk to my zoned elementary school, a big red building, where the faces reflected my own. Two decades later, as an educator living in Brooklyn, I returned to visit my old elementary school, hoping for a spark of nostalgia. Let me take you back to my Brooklyn. It was home. Over 65 percent white.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

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Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C., Vulnerability and Mental Health in Educational Leadership These fellows reflected early and often on what it means to be vulnerable as an education leader and how challenges have impacted their mental health.

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Moreover, virtual classrooms often utilize a variety of technological tools that enhance interactivity and collaboration. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology. This change reflects both the advancements in technology and the increasing availability of information at their fingertips.

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Why the Trump administration grounded these middle schoolers’ drones–and other STEM research

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For decades, the federal government believed getting more students interested in science, math, and technology was a national security priority. For example, a 1980 law calls for NSF to fund a “comprehensive and continuing program to increase substantially the contribution and advancement of women and minorities” in science and technology.

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"The Choice to Love"

Teacher Toms Blog

Cultures of domination," writes bell hooks, "rely on the cultivation of fear as a way to ensure obedience." As a culture we are obsessed with the notion of safety. This is the real challenge of our age: isolation, loneliness, and disconnection, the natural consequence of a culture of fear. And that fear is used to "motivate" us.