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With Washington Taking a Step Back on Transgender Students, Schools Need to Step Up
by Michael Sadowski on March 15, 2017
With the G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board case sent back the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, transgender youth—already one of the most vulnerable populations in our nation’s schools—were dealt another blow not only to their rights but also to their sense of themselves as people worthy of respect.
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Prioritizing Collaboration in a Time of Contention
by Chad d’Entremont, Geoff Marietta, and Emily Murphy Kaur on March 6, 2017
How leadership is applied is as important as the vision that is set forth. Improving complex organizations such as schools requires collaboration.
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Three Ways Teachers Are Connecting to Confront Racism
by Kira J. Baker-Doyle on February 2, 2017
While racism and white supremacy have always been present in America, the election of 2016 heightened awareness and tensions about these problems.
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Making the Elimination of Excellence Gaps an Educational Priority
by Jonathan Plucker and Scott J. Peters on January 9, 2017
Increasing evidence suggests that strategies used to get students to grade level may hinder the process of getting students to advanced levels of performance.
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Interrupting Islamophobia: An Urgent Task for Educators
by Monisha Bajaj, Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, and Karishma Desai on December 20, 2016
A student has her hijab ripped off while students call her a “terrorist” at her New York City high school (Moore, 2016).
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Work Ethic and the Skills Gap
by Matthew T. Hora on December 7, 2016
In the course of traveling through Wisconsin conducting interviews with business owners and HR directors for our new book, Beyond the Skills Gap, I was struck by how often I heard about problems with employees’ work ethic.
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Approaching Education as if Our Democracy Depended on It
by Thomas Fallace on November 16, 2016
What if educators approached the curriculum as if the survival of our democracy depended on it?
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Success for Every Student with Effective School Libraries
by Rebecca J. Morris on November 8, 2016
If someone asked whether your school has an “effective school library program,” what factors would determine your response?
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Ten Teacher Recommendations in Facilitating Conversations About Race in the Classroom
by H. Richard Milner IV on October 31, 2016
Three years ago, during bedtime, my then three-year old twin daughters declared to me that they had “a secret.” After a bit of probing on my part, one shared that she and her sister were indeed “Black.”
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Randomized Controlled Trials and the Blob
by Gary Thomas on October 12, 2016
William Bennett, US education secretary in the 1980s, came up with the term “the Blob” to describe education’s bureaucracy.
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