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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
EDlection 2020

New York Democrats Could Win Big in the State Senate this Fall. Here’s What That Could Mean for Education Funding

Zoë Kirsch
Pandemic

L.A. Parents in Desperate Straits with Distance Learning Say It’s Time for the Most Vulnerable Students to be Back in School

Esmeralda Fabián Romero
Pandemic

State Tests at Risk During Pandemic: Low Turnout for ‘Required’ Ohio Reading Test in Cities Suggests COVID-19 Could Keep Kids Home

Patrick O’Donnell
Pandemic

Survey Finds Most Teachers Assigned Busy Work in the Spring. Now, Experts Say, It’s Time to Give Students More Challenging Assignments — Remote or Not

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Minneapolis School District Addresses Parent Outrage Over New Digital Surveillance Tool as Students Learn Remotely

Mark Keierleber
EDlection 2020

The 25 Former Educators Poised to Win State Legislative Seats on Election Day

Asher Lehrer-Small
Best of the Month

The 11 Best Education Articles from October: The Search for Missing Students, New Data About COVID Learning Loss and How to Reverse It, History Curriculum as an Election Wedge Issue & More

The 74
The Big Picture

Twelfth-Grade NAEP Scores Offer More Bad News for Reading, Stagnation in Math

Kevin Mahnken
News

WATCH: Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings Talks About the Challenges Facing Higher Education — and the Preparation of America’s Future Workforce — Amid the Pandemic

The 74
EDlection 2020

The 74 Interview: Jeff Foster Taught Parkland Students the Power of Protests. Now He’s on a Mission to Inspire the Next Generation of Voters

Mark Keierleber
EDlection 2020

Too Young to Vote, Eager to Make Sure You Can: Meet the High School Students Keeping America’s Polls Open

Beth Hawkins
Pandemic

Educators Wanted Vulnerable Students To Return First for In-Person Learning, But a Racial Divide Spoiled Their Plans

Bekah McNeel
News

Interactive: 455 Times the Education Department Has Been Sued Under Secretary Betsy DeVos

The 74
Betsy DeVos

DeVos on the Docket: With 455 Lawsuits Against Her Department and Counting, Education Secretary is Left to Defend Much of Her Agenda in Court

Linda Jacobson
COVID Slide

Education Through a Pandemic: From Protests in Maryland Pitting Parents vs. Teachers Over Reopening to Oregon’s Revamped Attendance Policy, 9 Ways States and Schools Are Coping With COVID-19

Joshua Parrish
EDlection 2020

A Referendum on Race in Board Election for Gwinnett County, One of the Nation’s Largest and Most Stable School Districts

Linda Jacobson
3 Minutes With...

Q&A — 3 Minutes With Charter School Principal Stephen Lambert on Classical Education, Building Character and Saving Our Republic

Greg Richmond
EDlection 2020

In Alaska, an Education Activist is Trying to Unseat the House’s Longest-Serving Republican

Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

D.C. Schools Set to Reopen in Less Than Three Weeks: Teachers and Principals Have ‘No Idea’ If Buildings Are Safe or Who Is Staffing Them

Taylor Swaak
Pandemic

Families of Some Special Education Students in Texas May Be Eligible For $1,500 in Aid to Offset Pandemic Challenges

Stacy Fernández
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