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Educator’s Notebook #327 (March 8, 2020)

    • New Yorker
    • 03/02/20

    “We are all embedded within systems, but each life—each child—is an unrepeatable anecdote. According to the adults I knew when I was a kid, the worst thing in the world was to be a “statistic,” subsumed into a mass of low expectations and bad outcomes determined by color and class and sustained by a bureaucracy that was, at best, inept and, at worst, intractably racist. Education, then, was triage; escape was a higher-order concern than reform. Parents murmured about how So-and-So had got her daughter into Such-and-Such school, and had spirited the kid away from a school system whose failures symbolized—and, in many ways, flowed out of—a larger set of brutal social facts.”

    • Hechinger Report
    • 03/02/20

    “The researchers compared siblings who attended different high schools, and the ones who attended schools that were better at boosting soft skills had better outcomes.”

ASSESSMENT

ATHENA

CHARACTER

CURRICULUM

DIVERSITY/INCLUSION

HUMANITIES

LEADERSHIP

LEARNING SCIENCE

    • EdWeek
    • 03/03/20

    “Teens who have a decent night's sleep are better equipped to deal with stress the next day, including seeking out support from friends and engaging in active problem solving rather than brooding.”

PEDAGOGY

READING/WRITING

SAFETY

STEM

TECH

VISUAL DESIGN

WORKPLACE

Z-OTHER

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Peter Nilsson

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