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New York
New York
NYC’s First LGBTQ Liaison Reflects on Progress — Including New Policy That Lets Students Change Their Names, Genders — as He Departs for Harvard
The B.A. Breakthrough
The B.A. Breakthrough
IDEA Understands That College Is the New High School — For the Texas Charter Network That Means Making It Attainable for Everyone
Complicated Crusader to Accused Federal Conspirator: Ex-Puerto Rico Education Secretary Julia Keleher’s ‘Surreal’ Journey
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Our 5 Key Storylines Out of L.A. as the Nation’s Second-Largest District Heads Back to School
In the ‘Crazy, Complicated’ World of Special Education, Parents Turn to One Another for Help — on the Internet
Every Student Succeeds Act
Every Student Succeeds Act
This Week’s ESSA News: Helping Cut the Cost of CTE, Few State Accountability Plans Incorporate the Arts, Individual School Spending Data Reveal Big Difference & More
Inspiring
Inspiring
Florida Teacher’s Wedding Gift Wish List: School Supplies for Her District’s Students
The Mandatory-Expulsion Maze: Giving a Friend an Adderall Derailed an Honor Student’s Academic Career. He’s Not the Only One
Kindi, the Uber of English Reading, Links Syrian Refugee Students to Language Pals — & American Schools Are Getting In on the Act
4.5 Million Young People Nationwide Are Not Working or in School. How Cities Are Working to Get Them Back on Track — & Avoid the School-to-Prison Pipeline
WATCH: 74 Explains — What Is the New SAT ‘Adversity Score’? And What Does It Mean for Low-Income Students?
Virtual Standstill: When a Georgia Online School Tried to Fire For-Profit Operator K12, Students Were Locked Out of Their Computers
Every Student Succeeds Act
Every Student Succeeds Act
This Week’s ESSA News: Michigan to Have 2 Accountability Systems This School Year, 2 New States Approved to Try Innovative Testing, Presidential Hopefuls Aim to Boost Title I & More
‘Kids Are Being Arrested, but They Don’t Ask, “Are You OK?”’: San Antonio Students Advocate for Their Own Mental Health, but the Odds Are Against Them
Inspiring
Inspiring
Meet Medi Teddy, a Bear That Hides Those Scary Hospital IV Bags and Tubes, and the 12-Year-Old Connecticut Girl Who Created It
WATCH: 74 Explains — What Is ‘Summer Melt’? And Could Text Messages Reverse the Disturbing Trend?
The 74 Interview
The 74 Interview
74 Interview: Researcher Gloria Ladson-Billings on Culturally Relevant Teaching, the Role of Teachers in Trump’s America & Lessons From Her Two Decades in Education Research
‘Nudging’ Students to College Matriculation: How One School Network Is Using Text Messages to Combat Summer Melt and Ensure Alumni Make It to Their First Day on Campus
Schools Keep Punishing Girls — Especially Students of Color — Who Report Sexual Assaults, and the Trump Administration’s Title IX Reforms Won’t Stop It
Enrollment Equity: New Report Urges Policymakers to Push Charter Schools to Welcome More Midyear Transfer Students