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Race Biases Teachers’ Expectations for Students
When evaluating the same black student, white teachers expect significantly less academic success than black teachers, a new study concludes. This is especially true for black boys. When a black teacher and a white teacher evaluate the same black student, the white teacher is about 30 percent less likely to predict the student will complete […]
Read MoreExcellent Educator: Tom Bedard Of Homecroft Early Learning Center
Tom Bedard has spent his career working with the youngest of students at Homecroft Early Learning Center in St. Paul. “Birth to five years old, I’ve worked with thousands of children,” he said. He graduated with a degree in Childhood Psychology from the University of Minnesota and pursued Early Education, a field at the time […]
Read More‘MacGyver’ for preschoolers brings expertise to the (water) table
The preschoolers gather around the water table Monday morning. It’s a wondrous contraption, two tables fashioned into one long one and stacked with accessories like swimming noodles and coffee filters. The children don’t know it, but the guy who made this wonder — their teacher, Tom Bedard, at the Homecroft Early Learning Center in St. […]
Read MoreMeet the male teachers changing the perception of nursery school education
“For far too long we’ve had an upside down education system – with all the emphasis on the importance of GCSE, A Level and university,” explains Jay Ramsey, 40, a nursery teacher at St Werburgh’s Park School in Bristol. “But research shows that the influence of a good quality nursery environment continues to be felt […]
Read MoreNew York mayor: Why our cities need more teachers of color
Our nation hit two significant milestones in the last two years: for the first time, the majority of U.S. public school students and the majority of U.S. children under the age of five are of color. Unfortunately, as our country and classrooms become more diverse, the diversity of our national teaching corps has failed to […]
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