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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
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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
News

Collaboration to Nowhere? Report Shows U.S. Teens Rank 13th Internationally in Team Problem-Solving — but Only 35th in Math

Laura Fay
News

Education Issues at Stake as Senate Takes Up Tax Reform: State and Local Deductions, Teacher Supplies, Choice

Carolyn Phenicie
The Big Picture

First, the FCC Targeted ‘Net Neutrality.’ Could the E-rate Program, and Subsidized School Internet, Be Next?

Laura Fay
The Big Picture

New Report Shows Chicago’s Charter Schools Yield Higher Test Scores — and College Enrollment

Kevin Mahnken
News

Education Groups Demand Answers About Which Troubled Teachers Are Being Forced Back Into Classrooms — and Where

David Cantor
News

New York Student Caught Up in Gang Dragnet Is Freed After 5 Months in Immigration Detention

Mark Keierleber
News

When Academic Gaps Spiral Year After Year: The Harrowing ‘Jenga’ of Lost Student Skills — Captured in One Chart

Beth Hawkins
Every Student Succeeds Act

How Will America’s New Education Law Make Your School Better? 5 Experts on How States Are Using ESSA to Make Districts More Accountable

Blair Mann
News

San Francisco Schools: NAACP Urges ‘State of Emergency’ Over City’s Stark Racial Achievement Gap

Laura Fay
The Founders By Richard Whitmire

Video Exclusive: 4 School Founders, 4 Inspiring True Stories — How Summit Public Schools, Gestalt Community Schools, and Democracy Prep Came to Be

Romy Drucker
Personalized Learning

How an Online Personalized Preschool Experiment Could Change the Way Rural America Does Early Education

Carolyn Phenicie
News

What’s Old Is New Again: Why 3 New Middle Schools in Colorado, Texas, and California Are Prioritizing Single-Sex Education

Laura Fay
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

Coast to Coast EduClips: 7 Storylines We’re Watching in 7 of America’s Biggest School Districts

The 74
News

Is DeVos Near Ending School Discipline Reform After Talks on Race, Safety?

Mark Keierleber
News

El Paso Schools Chief Fires Back After ‘Dirty Tricks’ Email, Demands New AFT Leadership

Beth Hawkins
Inspiring

Educators We’re Thankful For: 9 Thanksgiving Tales of Gratitude for Teachers, Students, and School Friends

Tim Newcomb
News

Despite Startling Achievement Gaps, San Francisco Board Rejects Bid to Bring KIPP School to Poor Neighborhood

David Cantor
Every Student Succeeds Act

Experts Predict 5 Ways America’s New Education Law Will Improve the Average School Day

Blair Mann
News

Philadelphia School Reform Commission Votes to Abolish Itself After 16 Years

Kevin Mahnken
The Big Picture

More Money, More Problems (Solved Correctly): New Study Shows American Kids Do Better on Tests If You Pay for Answers

Kevin Mahnken
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