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When my son started the fourth grade, his teacher provided a thick bound packet of cursive writing worksheets. She said that completing the packet was
Most of us have the experience of registering for a workshop only to discover that it is a lecture or (worse) an advertisement for the
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In our combined decades of experience with equity in public schools—first as urban teachers and now as professors of early, elementary, and secondary education—we often
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