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How Early Adopter Districts Are Moving Ahead Fast With AI — and Getting It Right

New CRPE analysis finds districts in Georgia, California and Washington that prioritize artificial intelligence for the students who need it most.

Nathan Kriha, Michael Beradino & Bree Dusseault
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Analysis

Survey Finds Teens Worldwide Are Lost in the Transition After High School

Manno: 2 polls find students are unaware of career options or pathways and don't get work experience needed to prepare them for future employment.

Bruno V. Manno
Author: Bruno V. Manno
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Analysis

How Standardized Exams Can Favor Privilege Over Potential

Analysis: College admissions tests are widely used, but they could provide advantages to students who can afford test prep services, private tutoring.

Zarrina Talan Azizova, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley & Jeongeun Kim
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Analysis

Big Improvements Require Big Changes: Close Bad Schools and Expand Good Ones

Aldeman: New Orleans, Denver & Florida show how implementing a portfolio model of school choice can lead to dramatic academic gains.

Chad Aldeman
Author: Chad Aldeman
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Analysis

How Districts in Georgia, Maryland and D.C. Are Raising Reading Proficiency

Wakelyn: Research on 260 districts in 35 states found 3rd-grade reading scores rose in each of the last 3 years. What 3 of them are doing right.

David Wakelyn
Author: David Wakelyn
Pandemic

Analysis: As Many School Districts Reopen Virtually, the Opportunity Gap Widens for Students Living in Poverty

Betheny Gross & Alice Opalka
Pandemic

Analysis: Educators Say Distance Learning Failed Most English Learners Last Spring. Here’s 10 Ways to More Effectively Serve ELs as Schools Reopen for Virtual and Blended Learning

Martha Hernandez
Pandemic

5 Things I Learned Recording ‘Class Disrupted’

Michael B. Horn
Pandemic

When the Teacher Becomes the Student: What I Learned From Making ‘Class Disrupted’

Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

Granville: Louisiana’s FAFSA Requirement for HS Students Offers Lessons in College Access and Equity for Other States

Peter Granville
Pandemic

Designing Effective Remote Schools Requires Math: 3 Insights Into How Staffing Could Make All the Difference

Tiffany Zhou & Jonathan Travers
Pandemic

Exclusive: Analysis — How 18 Top Charter School Networks Are Refining Remote Learning for the Fall

Sean Gill & Lanya McKittrick
Pandemic

Analysis: Research Shows Students Lose Learning Even During Brief School Closures for Snow Days. Those Case Studies Show the Harm From COVID Will Be Multiplied Many Times Over

Chad Aldeman
Pandemic

Jarrell: Our Survey of New Orleans Principals Shows Nearly Half Are Thinking About Leaving. Here’s Our Blueprint for Helping Them Stay

Alex Jarrell
Pandemic

Analysis: Safety, Trust, High Expectations — How Families & Teachers Can Work Together So This Isn’t a Lost Year for Students

Bibb Hubbard & Cindi Williams
EDlection 2020

Analysis: Delegates to AFT’s Virtual Convention Have a Very Long Wish List. That Doesn’t Mean the Democrats, If They Win, Will Go Along

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Analysis: How Devastating Floods in Thailand in 2011 Harmed Students’ Academic Growth, and What Lessons We Can Use in Confronting Learning Loss During the Pandemic

Chad Aldeman
Pandemic

DiPerna: A National Tutor Corps Could Help Students Learning Online, Ease the Burden on Parents & Create Jobs for Recent College Grads

Paul DiPerna
EDlection 2020

Analysis: Kamala Harris Changed Her Thinking About Absenteeism, Truancy & Enforcement. What That Might Mean for Her as VP

Phyllis W. Jordan
Pandemic

Netter: Like Airlines, Schools Can Fall Victim to ‘Press-On-Itis.’ 6 Ways to Make Sure Reopening Plans Can Adapt as Circumstances Change

Gabi Netter
Pandemic

Analysis: Pandemic-Fueled Financial Turbulence Is Hitting School Districts Across the Country. Here’s What to Watch for

Marguerite Roza & Katie Silberstein
Union Report

Analysis: NEA Endorses Biden by Largest Margin in 24 Years — but With Fewer Delegates Voting — at Virtual Convention

Mike Antonucci
Pandemic

Aldeman: What a Wave of Teacher Strikes in Argentina Can Teach Us About Learning Disruptions, Degree Attainment, Higher Unemployment & Lower Earnings

Chad Aldeman
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Learning Early to ‘Taste the Stillness’ Can Set a Child Up for Lifelong Well-being

K.C. Compton
Pandemic

Jones: Prioritize Active Learning. Age Matters. Teachers Hold the Key. Ways to Help Special Ed Kids, and All Students, Catch Up — and Move Ahead

Lindsay E. Jones
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