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immigration
immigration

ICE Raids Caused Enrollment to Drop. Now Districts Are Paying the Price

As leaders ask lawmakers to help fill budget gaps, conservatives escalate the debate over serving undocumented students.

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Featured

Test Article

Aaliyah Hodge
civics education
civics education

How the Story of Young George Washington Offers Some Important Civic Lessons

A new movie connects with a civics curriculum that goes beyond memorizing dates and places to consider whether Washington made the right decisions.

Martin Slagter
Author: Martin Slagter
school choice
school choice

Auditor: School choice cost Iowans $258 million

Report analyzes impacts of Iowa’s Education Savings Accounts program.

Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch
Kristen Huff
Kristen Huff

Hope, Sadness and Uncertainty Follow After Carvalho Resigns as LAUSD Superintendent

Experts and advocates have emphasized the importance of providing continuity in a time of rapid change in district leadership.

Mallika Seshadri, EdSource
COVID Warriors

Texas Teachers Go Door to Door as Kids Disappear From Remote Classes

Bekah McNeel
Pandemic

‘Teacher Cams’ Could Revolutionize Education After the Pandemic Ends, But Some Critics See a Massive Student Privacy Risk

Mark Keierleber
COVID Slide

Education Through the Pandemic: From Growing Concerns About California’s Missing Kindergarteners to New Florida Proposals to Repair Learning Loss, 10 Ways States Are Coping With COVID-19

Joshua Parrish
News

Senate Confirms Cardona 64-33 as Education Secretary; First Lady Heads to His Hometown Wednesday

Linda Jacobson
News

After Year of ‘Peril’ for Democracy, Scholars Release New Framework for History and Civics in Schools

Kevin Mahnken
COVID Warriors

School Without Walls: Program Created by 110-Year-Old Black Church Becomes ‘Lifesaver’ for Wisconsin Parents

Zoë Kirsch
Pandemic

Parents Expected to Opt Children Out of Spring Testing in Large Numbers, Especially in Places Where Schools Haven’t Reopened

Linda Jacobson
COVID Warriors

Bucking the Trend: How 2 D.C. Principals Restored Black Parents’ Trust in Returning Kids to the Classroom

Taylor Swaak
COVID Warriors

200 Schools, Universal Weekly COVID Screening: How ‘Assurance Testing’ Has Kept Thousands of Texas Students in Classrooms

Bekah McNeel
COVID Warriors

Introducing COVID Warriors: How Educators are Saving a Generation from the Pandemic’s Lasting Calamity

JoAnne Wasserman & Emmeline Zhao
Pandemic

NYC Schools Get First Black Female Chancellor as Carranza Abruptly Resigns During Ongoing COVID Crisis

Zoë Kirsch
COVID Policy Briefing

This Week in COVID & Education Policy: 16 Key Updates on Schools, Students and the Science Behind the Pandemic

John Bailey
Pandemic

What Do Predictions of ‘Herd Immunity’ Mean For Schools?

Asher Lehrer-Small
book review

Book Review — What the Eyes Don’t See: Fueled by Idealism, Backed by Science

K.C. Compton
Pandemic

One Year into Pandemic, Far Fewer Young Students are on Target to Learn How to Read, Tests Show

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

CDC Study Finds Teachers ‘Central’ To COVID Transmission When Distancing, Masks Not Enforced

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

New Pew Research Polling on School Reopening Shows Concerns Shifting From Virus Spread to Learning Loss

Mark Keierleber
Best of the Month

The 12 Best Education Articles from February: How Extremists Are Teaching Kids to Hate, the White House Staffs Up With Education Experts, Recruiting an Army of Online Tutors & More

The 74
Q&A

Ai-jen Poo, Founder of National Domestic Workers Alliance, Discusses Why Now is the Time for Transforming Our Undervalued and Largely Unseen Care Workforce

Bryce Covert
Pandemic

Biden Administration Requires States to Test Students, But With Flexibility for Shorter, Remote or Delayed Exams. Experts Say Balance Struck is ‘Sensible’

Asher Lehrer-Small
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