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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
Inspiring

Houston Dad Confronts Boy Who Bullied His Son — and Becomes His Friend, Mentor, and Biggest Booster

Tiffany Lagerstrom
The Big Picture

What’s in a Report Card? Depends on Who You Ask. New Report Shows That Parents and Teachers Have Very Different Understandings of Grades & Tests

Kate Stringer
Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: The Limitations of Graduation Rates, How the New Education Law Will Allow Students to Transfer out of Dangerous Schools & More

Ashley Inman Zanchelli
Indiana

After School Shooting, This Indiana District Sees Mental Health as Strategy to Curb Suicide, Violence

Mark Keierleber
Personalized Learning

74 Interview: ‘The City Fund’ Founders Talk About Their New Campaign to Identify America’s Most Innovative Public School Systems and the First Metro Areas Where They’ll Be Investing

Steve Snyder
Early Care and Education

Role of Play Time in Early Learning: Kasper Ottosson Kanstrup, The Lego Foundation

Early Learning Nation Editors
News

Providing a Good Education Means Moving Beyond Outdated American Method of Schooling, Senator Says

Carolyn Phenicie
Featured

A Toy Gun, a Snapchat Post, and an Arrest

Mark Keierleber
News

As Schools Comb Social Media for Potential Threats, Has Mass Shooting Anxiety Turned Administrators Into the ‘Internet Police’?

Mark Keierleber
The Big Picture

National Poll on Education Attitudes Finds Majority of Teachers Down on Profession, Lack Trust in Parents

Kevin Mahnken
The 74 Interview

74 Interview: Integrated Schools Founder on Talking to White Parents About Privilege and Turning Neighborhood Schools Into a Rallying Cry for Integration

Conor P. Williams
News

History Has Its Eyes on Them: Musical-Infused ‘Hamilton’ Education Program Brings Civics to Life for HS Students

Andrew Brownstein
Chicago

Nation’s First Charter School Teacher Strike Shutters Class for 7,000 Students in Chicago

Laura Fay
Future of Work

Can Innovative Rural Schools Stem the Urban Bleed?

Arielle Dreher
Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: House Democrats Get Ready to Take Charge of Federal Education Policy, Feds Release Guidance on State Plan Changes & More

Ashley Inman Zanchelli
Inspiring

Meet the 19-Year-Old Who Just Won a Seat on His Local Louisiana School Board: ‘The Board Needs Some Fresh Ideas and Young Members’

Lisa Nevans Locke
The 74 Interview

74 Interview: With Political Headwinds Rising, Constance Jones Becomes 1st African-American Woman to Lead Chicago’s Noble Network

Beth Hawkins
The 74 Interview

One-on-One With Lewis Ferebee: New D.C. Schools Chancellor Talks About Why Districts Need to Expand Career & Technical Education for Enrollment, Enlistment, and Employment

Emmeline Zhao
News

Schools Have Plenty of Good Ideas, but They Don’t Always Know How to Implement Them. New Report Aims to Improve ‘Fragmented’ Education Systems

Kate Stringer
Indianapolis

‘School Choice Is the Black Choice’: Roland Martin Kicks Off Education Tour With Indianapolis Town Hall, Tough Questions About School Innovation & the Achievement Gap

Emmeline Zhao
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