Calls to increase the diversity of the teacher workforce are unlikely to meaningfully address large racial and ethnic educational inequities, at least not during elementary school.
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Working with moveable pictures can help children learn an algebra rule: Whatever you do to one side of the equation, you need to do to the other. Here’s how teachers or caregivers can lead this.
Extremely young school shooters are not believed to be capable of forming criminal intent.
Science fiction books can inspire more children to become scientists if authors and illustrators do a better job of depicting characters from diverse backgrounds.
By kindergarten, white and Asian students are three to four times as likely as Black and Hispanic students to display advanced math skills.
According to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, far-right groups have been trying to stack school boards with candidates harbouring anti-equity ideologies.
Teaching computer programming to youth can prepare them for the future job market, promote equity in tech professions and develop students’ computational thinking skills.
As a researcher focussed on African, Afro-Caribbean and Black families’ schooling experiences, I appeal to school staff to understand the importance of the school-family-community partnership.
Inflation is soaring, but prices for typical back-to-school gear like backpacks, computers and new clothes are rising less than average – or even falling.
The core principle of education is to enable students to become kind, giving and contributing members of their community and the world.
Children who are bullied in school are at higher risk for depression and anxiety later in life.
In ABC’s ‘Abbott Elementary,’ Philadelphia schoolteachers go above and beyond for their students – just like real-life urban schoolteachers do every day, says one scholar.
Halfway through the school year that was supposed to be a return to normal, teachers are barely hanging on.
Problems include no fields, no courts for games, no playgrounds, no bike racks and no traffic-calming surrounding the school. Bringing in minimum standards is important.
Pediatric clinical trials for the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 have shown that the Pfizer shot is safe and effective.
Calls to reinstate home economics as a solution to modern woes reduce the field to a set of practical skills, undermining its breadth and complexity.
Female teachers perform better in the classroom and women principals lead to achieve better school management. But, female educators have to wait longer to be promoted.
How much homework kids should do is a subject of great debate.
US schools now collect detailed data on their students. But teachers and parents need to think carefully about how that data is used – and what it shows, or doesn’t show, about a student.
Tutoring is a billion-dollar industry. A former tutor explains what to look for in a tutor for your child and urges parents to consider free options before they open up their pocketbooks.
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Director, Institute for Social and Health Equity, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Assistant Professor of Teaching, Leadership, and Professional Practice, University of North Dakota
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Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Saskatchewan
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Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Northwestern University
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Professor of Psychology, Bridgewater State University
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Virginia
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Professor Emeritus of Education Law & Labor, University of New Hampshire
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Associate Professor, School of Education, St. Francis Xavier University
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Policy and Program Evaluation, Faculty of Education, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Calgary
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Program Chair and Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, UMass Global, University of Massachusetts
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Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice and Creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, University of Central Florida
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto
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Professor of Education, University of Florida