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Nov 26, 2024 | 
opencampusmedia.org | Azia Ross
When Nia Allen applied to Dillard University, she didn’t know the school was founded by a church or that it was a Christian school at all. “When I applied here it was mainly for the theater program,” Allen said. Many religion-affiliated historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country have taken up marketing themselves as secular schools on their websites.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Jessie Gomez |Tonyaa Weathersbee |Melanie Asmar |Azia Ross
Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. When Newark Public Schools opens its doors to roughly 40,000 students next month, the district will expand the use of an AI program in schools and implement solutions to ongoing facilities needs, Superintendent Roger León said in a wide-ranging interview this week.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Tonyaa Weathersbee |Melanie Asmar |Azia Ross |Haley Miller
How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs. Jeromy Payne’s forebears grew crops in Senatobia, Mississippi, so he always had a link to the land. Now Payne is using that ancestral connection to teach reading to third graders at John P. Freeman Optional School in Memphis. The 30-year-old English Language Arts and social studies teacher accomplishes that through project-based learning, or PBL.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Azia Ross |Haley Miller |Melanie Asmar |Jocelyn Gecker
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. A new $1.5 million state grant offered school districts and universities across Pennsylvania a chance for funding to grow their special education workforce. But, despite a dire special education teaching shortage, the Philadelphia school district chose not to apply.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Ann Schimke |Dale Mezzacappa |Jason Gonzales |Azia Ross
Read in English. Chalkbeat Colorado es un noticiero local sin fines de lucro que informa sobre las escuelas públicas en Denver y otros distritos. Suscríbete a nuestro boletín gratis por email en español para recibir lo último en noticias sobre educación dos veces al mes. ¿Necesitan tus hijos nuevas vacunas antes de regresar a la escuela? El estado de Colorado está ofreciendo eventos móviles y gratuitos de vacunación este mes.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Dale Mezzacappa |Ann Schimke |Jason Gonzales |Azia Ross
Sign up forChalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. When Deborah Grill was at Roosevelt Middle School in Germantown in 1994, the Philadelphia school district had 176 functioning school libraries with full-time certified librarians. Today, there is just one full-time librarian. “People think of it as an extra,” said Grill, who was a teacher, literacy coach, and librarian in her 34 years with the district. That mentality is now changing.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Ann Schimke |Jason Gonzales |Azia Ross |Julian Shen-Berro
Read in English. Ayudar a las escuelas a instalar paneles solares para reducir el uso de combustibles fósiles. Reducir el desperdicio de alimentos en la cafetería creando mesas para “compartir” y programas de compostaje. Almacenar remedios para las sobredosis de opioides en los gabinetes de DEA de las escuelas.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Jason Gonzales |Azia Ross |Ann Schimke |Julian Shen-Berro
Sign up for our free monthly newsletter Beyond High School to get the latest news about college and career paths for Colorado’s high school grads. Almost 796,000 Colorado borrowers hold more than $29 billion in federal student loan debt, contributing to the nation’s $1.6 trillion student debt load. To help borrowers understand how to manage their debt, Young Invincibles and other Colorado advocates and government officials have held a series of clinics over the last several days.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Azia Ross |Ann Schimke |Julian Shen-Berro |Hannah Dellinger
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. As Philadelphia prepares for the new school year, members of the City Council and others are putting serious pressure on the district to do more for students experiencing homelessness.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Dale Mezzacappa |Ann Schimke |Reema Amin |Azia Ross
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Kristyn Kahahaloe still remembers a little boy from her class in a New Jersey early learning center when she was a rookie teacher starting students on their journey to becoming readers. The boy, who was in kindergarten, “just couldn’t figure it out the way I was teaching it,” she said.
