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Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
Many believe that the education system in America is broken. Standards are being lowered, and teachers say they are being asked to teach their students curriculum at a lower level than their grade ...
The new Nation’s Report Card is truly scandalous; it shows that one in every three eighth graders are functionally illiterate. Millions of teens struggle to extract meaning from words on a page.
In the Arab region, media and information literacy was largely ignored up until 2011, when the Media Studies Program at the American University of Beirut, the Open Society Foundations and the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE) launched a regional conference themed "New Directions: Digital and Media Literacy".
However, media literacy education is distinct from simply using media and technology in the classroom, a distinction that is exemplified by the difference between "teaching with media" and "teaching about media." [58] In the 1950s and 60s, the ‘film grammar’ approach to media literacy education developed in the United States. Where ...
Margins matter. The more American Public Education (NAS: APEI) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to ...
Although the U.S. Adult Education and Literacy System (AELS) and legislation such as the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 had highlighted education as an issue of national importance, [24] the push for high levels of mass literacy has been a recent development; expectations of literacy have sharply increased over past decades. [25]
The Dangers of Unqualified Teachers Teaching Financial Literacy School districts need to certify teachers in a specific financial discipline much as they would for a math or history teacher.