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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
The Big Picture

As Chicago Teachers Threaten to Walk Out, New Report Suggests a ‘Hidden Driver’ Behind Rash of Strikes: Skyrocketing Pension and Health Costs

Kevin Mahnken
Los Angeles

Advocates File Appeal With the State Charging L.A. Schools, County Still Not Accounting for More Than $1B in Funding for High-Needs Students

Taylor Swaak
News

To Build Emotional Intelligence in Students, Start With the Adults. SEL Pioneer Marc Brackett Helps Schools Do Both in ‘Permission to Feel’

Kate Stringer
News

A Decade After It Promised to Reinvent Teacher Prep, Relay Is Producing a Much-Needed, More Diverse Teaching Corps

Brendan Lowe
4Fams

School Co-founder Diane Tavenner on Redefining Success in Education, Why Project-Based Learning Should Be a Team Sport and Tips for Parents on Raising ‘Prepared’ Kids

Laura Fay
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

EduClips: From NYC’s Plan to Develop New Schools With XQ to a Possible Teacher Strike in Chicago, the Education News You Missed This Week From America’s 15 Top Districts

Laura Fay
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

Monthly QuotED: 6 Notable Quotes That Made Education Headlines in September, From Affirmative Action to Teacher Pay — and President Trump on Vaping

Andrew Brownstein
News

What the Harvard Affirmative Action Victory Means for Students Who Face ‘Endemic Inequalities’ in K-12 Schools

Mark Keierleber
Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: How a New Kentucky Law Puts Its Federal School Funding at Risk, Officials ‘Get Personal’ in Fighting Student Absenteeism & More

Erika Ross
ed tech

CodeMonkey’s Banana Quest Game Gives Learning Coding a Certain Appeal for Students and Teachers

Tim Newcomb
The Big Picture

Even as New Polls Show Both Teachers and Parents Demanding Better Data About Their Students, Only 17% of Educators Say They’ve Received Data Training in Prep Programs

Mikhail Zinshteyn
News

New Profit Committing More Than $2 Million to Entrepreneurs Working on Education Access and Social Mobility for Underserved Students

Laura Fay
The 74 Interview

Testing Anxiety, Boredom & Guesses: What Expert Steven Wise Has Learned About Exams and ‘Rapid-Guessing Behavior’ — and What That Tells Him About Your Child’s Score

Beth Hawkins
News

DeVos, Conway Tackle Widespread Opposition to $5 Billion Federal Tax-Credit Scholarship Proposal

Carolyn Phenicie
EDlection 2020

Sanders Pulls Out of Campaign Doldrums With a Huge Fundraising Quarter — and Lots of Support From Teachers

Kevin Mahnken
Keeping it 100

Photo Tour: In Rural Virginia, Unearthing the Forgotten Stories — and Heroes — Behind Brown v. Board

Emmeline Zhao
Best of the Month

The 11 Best Education Articles From September: Texas’s Unrelenting Special Education Crisis, Empowering Teachers in Picking Textbooks, When Elite Schools Fail Students & More

The 74
Keeping it 100

Returning to the Site of Their Segregated High School, Student Strikers Recall Their 1951 Protest and Urge That Its Role in Brown v. Board Not Be Forgotten

Emmeline Zhao
The Big Picture

New Study of Boston Charter Schools Shows Huge Learning Gains for City’s Special Education Students & English Language Learners

Kevin Mahnken
Inspiring

Kansas High School Art Students Take Custodian as Their Muse — and Produce Amazing Portrait of Their ‘Unsung Hero’

Debra West
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