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Alabama made a big investment in elementary math, but underresourced schools still have a long way to go

GREENVILLE, Ala. — Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle.
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If You’re Raising Kids Without The “Village” Everyone Talks About, You Share These 12 Quiet Strengths

Nobody told me it would be this quiet. I expected parenting to be hard—everyone warns you about that. But nobody mentioned the specific loneliness of doing it without backup. No mother-in-law swooping ...