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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

How Sweet It Is! 6-Year-Old Girl Sells Lemonade to Pay Off Classmates’ Lunch Debts

Tim Newcomb
The Big Picture

One-Third of Girls With 4.0 GPAs Don’t Think They’re Smart — and Other Findings From National School Survey

Kate Stringer
News

Puerto Rico Teachers Fleeing Hurricane Maria Arrived at Orlando’s Airport With Nothing. They Left With Jobs

Mark Keierleber
The Big Picture

Behind That Nobel Prize for Economics, an Innovation for Schools? How ‘Nudge Theory’ Is Already Being Tested in Classrooms

Kevin Mahnken
Every Student Succeeds Act

Don’t Expect Betsy DeVos to Wade Into State-Level Showdowns Over Who Gets Final ESSA Approval, Expert Says

Beth Hawkins
News

‘Bright New Leaders’: Inside the Ohio Program That’s Offering Aspiring Principals Training and Mentorship — and an MBA

Laura Fay
News

Party Hearty! Frat Brothers’ Grades Go Down — but Their Income Goes Way UP

Laura Fay
The Big Picture

Where Are the Hispanic Teachers? While Hiring’s Exploded in Past 25 Years, There Are Still 3 Times as Many Hispanic Students as Instructors

Kevin Mahnken
News

Trump Administration Targets Unaccompanied Minors in Negotiations to Replace DACA

Mark Keierleber
News

Don’t Believe the Hype: Local Education Advocates Say They See Little Change in DeVos’s Views on Federal School Choice Program

Carolyn Phenicie
News

New York City Journalists, Parents, Teachers, Students All Left in the Dark as Education Dept. Fails to Answer 500 Records Requests

David Cantor
Social-Emotional Learning

States Skip Social-Emotional Learning for Accountability Under ESSA — but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not in Their Plans

Kate Stringer
Reinventing America's School – Indianapolis

How One of Indianapolis’s ‘Innovation School’ Principals Is Using Language of Love — and Spanish Immersion Program — to Achieve Dramatic Student Growth

Kate Stringer
Reinventing America's School – Indianapolis

Acclaimed Netflix Documentary ‘Night School’ Profiles Indianapolis Dropouts Getting a Second Chance at Innovative Charter School

Kevin Mahnken
Reinventing America's School – Indianapolis

74 Interview: Indiana Educator Earl Phalen on Innovating Classrooms for Low-Income Students of Color — and the NAACP’s ‘Phony’ Charter War

Emmeline Zhao
News

The Age of Automation Demands a New American School System, Study Declares

Kevin Mahnken
Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: Senate Dems Worry, Ga. Governor Says No, Closer Round 2 Scrutiny Urged

Blair Mann
Reinventing America's Schools – New Orleans

How Educare Is Closing New Orleans’s Achievement Gap by Beginning Early Education at Birth

Beth Hawkins
News

Exclusive: Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

David Cantor
News

To Get Students Engaged in Civics, This New Jersey High School Student Wrote a Textbook Featuring 56 Youth Voices

Laura Fay
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