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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

‘Do You Really Want to Spend the Money on Online Yale?’ For the Class of 2020, Gap Years Beckon

Kevin Mahnken
The Big Picture

Amid Pandemic Downturn, New Research Shows Great Recession Hurt Student Test Scores, Widened Achievement Gaps & Reduced College Attendance

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Immigrant Educators Helping Immigrant Students Through Coronavirus: Maria Rocha, One of 2,000 Texas Teachers Covered by DACA, Is Turning Her Anxiety Into Advocacy

Bekah McNeel
Pandemic

Plans to Administer ‘Nation’s Report Card’ in 2021 to Proceed Despite Concerns Over Reliability and Funding During Pandemic

Linda Jacobson
News

10,000 Miles Away: For Students in Springdale, Arkansas, Home to America’s Largest Population of Marshall Islanders, School Can Be Something of a Culture Shock

Brendan Lowe
COVID Slide

Educating Through a Pandemic: From a Kansas Showdown Over Campus Closures to California’s New Tool to Measure Learning and New York’s Surge in Homeschooling Families, 11 Ways Schools & States Are Adapting to COVID-19

Erika Ross
Best of the Month

The 11 Best Education Articles From July: How States Are Crafting Reopening Policies, Why Parents Are Bracing for a Chaotic Re-entry, When the Preschoolers Disappeared & More

The 74
Pandemic

DC Public Schools Is Latest District to Announce All-Virtual Start Despite Federal Pressure in Its Own Backyard to Reopen. 10 Things Families Need to Know

Taylor Swaak
EDlection 2020

Biden Prioritizes School Funding, Early Education and Classroom Equity in Appearance at AFT Convention; Decries GOP’s ‘Out of Touch’ Recovery Plan

Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Cleveland’s ‘Mastery’ Hopes Fade as COVID-19 Surges and Classes Are Forced Online

Patrick O’Donnell
Pandemic

D.C. Public Schools Will Announce on Friday Whether It’ll Offer In-Person Learning. A Look at What’s Happening on the Ground as Decision Looms

Taylor Swaak
Pandemic

Parents (and Lawyers) Say Distance Learning Failed Too Many Special Education Students. As Fall Approaches, Families Wonder If Their Children Will Lose Another School Year

Linda Jacobson
News

LISTEN: What Does the Future of School Safety Look Like? New EWA Podcast Interviews 74’s Mark Keierleber About Efforts to Dismantle Campus Policing After George Floyd’s Death

The 74
Pandemic

DACA Double Take: A Month After ‘Dreamers’ Cheered SCOTUS Decision, Trump Administration Considers Second Effort to End Program, Halting New Applications

Mark Keierleber
Pandemic

Top DeVos Deputy Tells Nation’s Education Reporters That Pandemic Adds Urgency to Federal Push for Private School Choice

Beth Hawkins
Pandemic

VIDEO: American Federation of Teachers Authorizes Educator ‘Safety Strikes’ If Schools Reopen This Fall Without Adequate Safety Measures

Mark Keierleber
Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: Rethinking How Attendance Is Tracked During COVID, Kansas Launches Report Card for Students in Foster Care, Local Leaders Trump Trump in Reopening Schools & More

Erika Ross
Pandemic

Teachers Unions Historically Supported Campus Cops. George Floyd’s Death — and a Wave of ‘Militant’ Educator Activists — Forced Them to Reconsider

Mark Keierleber
Pandemic

Reopening Classrooms With ‘Equity by Design’: How One NYC School Network Partnered With Architects and Designers on a Pandemic Plan That Prioritizes the Most Vulnerable Students

Tim Newcomb
Lessons from a Global Reckoning

Lessons From a Global Reckoning: Students’ Racial Backgrounds Largely Misrepresented on NYC Summer Reading Lists, Exclusive Analysis Reveals

Zoë Kirsch
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