Montessori education encourages split grades, and as a school with low enrolment numbers, it already had teachers teaching multiple grades in a single class.
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Building trusting relations among teachers, parents, a community and school administrators is important when schools enter decision-making processes about programs of choice.
Alex Bird (second from the left) and his siblings from the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation were among the first students to attend this public school, near Prince George, B.C., in the early 1910s.
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In B.C., residential school principals sat on public school boards, and some Indigenous children even attended public schools. Understanding such links matters for truth and reconciliation.
Schools in Chicago have suffered days of disruption.
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A dispute between the Chicago Teachers Union and the school district over in-person learning has resulted in classes being canceled. An education policy expert explains what is at stake.
Republican politicians have championed legislation to limit the teaching of material exploring how race and racism influence American politics, culture and law.
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New state laws in the US banning teaching about systemic racism raise the question: Does the Constitution protect public school teachers’ right to choose how and what to teach?