The Atlantic: “What emerges is a picture of black and Latino students whose concentration, motivation, and, ultimately, learning is impaired by unintended and overt racism.”
Education Dive: “The International Dyslexia Association estimates as many as one in five people have some symptoms of [dyslexia], including slow or inaccurate reading, poor spelling or writing, and a tendency to confuse similar words.”
The Hechinger Report: “‘Today’s college students, on average, spend more than $900 a year on textbooks. … That just gets in the way of them staying in school.’”
High Country News: “Nearly half of rural school districts in the U.S. have no secondary students enrolled in Advanced Placement courses, compared with only 5 percent of suburban schools and 3 percent of urban schools. Suburban and urban students also outperform rural students in AP classes.”
Huffington Post: “In over half of school districts in Alabama and Mississippi, black children are 51 percent more likely to receive corporal punishment.”
The José Vilson: “It’s no secret that teachers—particularly white teachers like me—too often butcher the names of students of color on their rosters. I worry this moment sets a dangerous tone, suggesting to those students that there’s more pain, more humiliation, more alienation to come.”
NBC: “‘I always grew up with the expectation that just because you are Latino doesn’t mean you can’t be at the pinnacle of academic achievement, or that you can’t do certain things.’”
The New York Times: “The children being groomed to be racist need to learn that acting on their racism has consequences, the least of which is that they will be met with resistance. The children have to see that people will stand up to them and call out their ignorance.”
The New York Times Magazine: “In December, [Larycia] Hawkins wrote a theologically complex Facebook post announcing her intention to wear a hijab during Advent, in solidarity with Muslims; [Wheaton College] placed her on leave within days and soon moved to fire her.”
The Oklahoman: “One of the most surprising findings of the survey was that many students drop out of high school because of bullying and never return.”
POLITICO Magazine: “We live in a very divided time in terms of partisan politics, and what we’re trying to do as a school is educate children, and teach them how to think critically.”
TIME: “The legacy of separate and unequal school systems is alive and well in America. We should not, however, resign ourselves—and our children—to this reality.”
USA Today: “Improving the ratio of adults aged 25+ to school-aged children helps keep kids on a path to graduation. More adults in a neighborhood means a bigger ‘web of supports’ that benefit all kids.”
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