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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

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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
Pandemic

More Lawmakers Are Leading Efforts to Reopen Some Schools By Statute — And Not Just in Red States

Kevin Mahnken
COVID Slide

This Week’s ESSA News: Texas Schools Turn to Career and Technical Education as Tool For Equity, Indiana Considers Rebooting State Accountability System, a Push to Preserve Special Ed During the Pandemic & More

Joshua Parrish
Pandemic

Virtual Art Classes, Outdoor Vocational Programs: How Jails and Prisons Are Evolving Amid the Pandemic

Keri Blakinger
Pandemic

As Pandemic Allows More High Schoolers to Use State Program to Enroll in Virtual College Courses, Minnesota Districts Face Unexpected Financial Hit

Wayne D’Orio
News

Watch — Psychology Professor Allyson Mackey Recaps New Education Research Showing Kids Give Up Easier If Parents Step In To Help

The 74
The Big Picture

A Pre-COVID Education Study With Big Implications for Remote Learning During the Pandemic: When Parents Take Over, Children Give Up Easier

Asher Lehrer-Small
Pandemic

More Chaos For Texas Students: Amid a Destabilizing Pandemic, a Winter Storm Brings New Delays to In-Person Learning — and Prevents Schools From Serving as Lifelines

Aliyya Swaby
Pandemic

Survey: Pandemic-Related Stress Tops Teachers’ Reasons for Quitting, But Vaccines, COVID Testing Could Lure Some of Them Back

Linda Jacobson
News

Raw Video: California School Board Resigns After Accidentally Streaming Meeting Where They Mocked and Derided District Parents

The 74
Denver

For Years, Denver Public Schools Were a Haven for School Reform. After a Superintendent’s Resignation, What Comes Next?

Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

Cleveland Schools Comply with Governor’s March 1 Opening: Teachers Union Could Resist

Patrick O’Donnell
Pandemic

Dwindling Food, Flooded Hallways, Unflushable Toilets: Texas’s University Dorms Descend Into Chaos During Historic Winter Storm

Kate McGee
News

Your Thursday Virtual Science Class, Courtesy of NASA, Mars & the First Martian Helicopter: Livestream Today’s Perseverance Rover Landing Right Here, 2:30 p.m. ET

Steve Snyder
News

With Income Share Agreements Instead of Student Loans, Purdue University Pioneered Program That ‘Makes School Available to Those Who Want to Come’

Tim Newcomb
Pandemic

Report: New Summer Learning Initiative, Launched Last Year as a 5-Week Pilot for Nearly 12,000 Students, Shows Promise For Improving Online Instruction

Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

Student Survey: 1 in 4 High School Seniors Had Their Post-Graduation Plans Changed by the Pandemic

Laura Fay
Pandemic

WATCH — Biden Recalibrates Education Goals at Town Hall: Aims to Return K-8 Students to Classrooms in 100 Days, Supports Expanded Summer School, Wary of ‘Cancelling’ Too Much Student Debt

The 74
Pandemic

Nearly a Year Into Remote Learning, How 3 NYC Teachers Are Digging Deep to Connect With Their Students Through a Screen

Zoë Kirsch
The Big Picture

Leaders in California and South Carolina Find Learning Loss — Especially in the Early Grades — But Experts Say Data is Still ‘Imperfect’

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Rural Libraries to the Rescue: As the Pandemic Weighs Down Reading Scores, the Rural Library Fellowship Aims to ‘Activate’ Local Institutions Around Third Grade Literacy

Jackie Mader
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