Voices in Education

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The Arts and UDL: What General Education Can Learn from the Margins In the national discussions about school and curriculum reform, arts education is continually marginalized, requiring its advocates to keep making the case for the contribution of the arts to academic, social, and personal learning outcomes.
Deeper Learning and the Common Core The first things I noticed when I walked into classrooms at International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn were the dictionaries. In every room, students sat in groups, and in the middle of the groups they placed their language dictionaries: Spanish-English, Uzbek-English, French-English, and more.
Universal Design for Learning and Improving Education for Incarcerated Youth On any given day, more than 81,000 youth are confined to residential facilities in the juvenile justice system. These youth are disproportionately students of color (particularly African American males), students from low-income backgrounds, and students with disabilities.
The Power of Parents Ricky immigrated to California with his parents and four siblings when he was four years old. Although Ricky is very much an American high school student (his history teacher was surprised to learn that he was not born in the United States), his home life very much reflects the experience of an immigrant family.
Stand Up or Bystand? New Insights on Bullying Why do we hear so much about bullying in schools today? Is bullying worse now than ever before? Or is it just more visible to the outside world--more pervasive in the new digital era?
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