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Future of High School

We Are High Achievers, But We Were Almost a Statistic

Briauna and Tiauna Black: When tragedy struck, a hybrid school provided the flexibility and support needed to move from high school to career.

Briauna Black and Tiauna Black
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Why Students and Families Don’t Use Their School Choice Scholarships

Matus and Cherry: About 41,000 students received Florida’s choice scholarships but didn’t use them last year. Availability and affordability were key.

Ron Matus & Dava Cherry
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New Hampshire’s Universal School Choice Expansion Is a Win for Students, Parents

Mullins: Strong policy changes lives, and the Granite State just changed thousands of them for the better. It's not just policy — it’s possibility.

Ashley DeMauro Mullins
Author: Ashley DeMauro Mullins
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School’s Out for Summer. Parents Need Support With Youth Mental Health

Bullock, Contreras and Curbelo: Parents are understandably frustrated by how challenging it is to find the right resources to support their kids.

Steve Bullock, January Contreras & Carlos Curbelo
Pandemic

Kapur & Srinivasan: Pandemic Is Strengthening the Home-School Connection. How Education Nonprofits Are Boosting Family Engagement to Help Kids Succeed

Ambika Kapur & LaVerne Srinivasan
Pandemic

Educator’s View: Meet the ‘Students’ Helping Teachers Understand What Pandemic Life Is Like at Home

Erin Mote & Arthi Krishnaswami
Pandemic

Adams: How to Avoid Needless COVID School Closings & Treat All New York City Students Equally

Alina Adams
Keeping it 100

Poll Shows Support for Teaching History of U.S. Racism — With or Without Parental Consent

Jonathan Collins
Pandemic

Gray: Windows, Movable Walls & Furniture, Outdoor Space — How Flexible School Design Makes Socially Distanced Education Work in a Pandemic

Kathryn Gray
Pandemic

Legislators’ View: Working Families Are in Crisis. As We Recover From COVID-19, We Must Rethink Child Care as an Economic and Public Good

Brooke Lierman & Melisa Franzen
Pandemic

Commentary: Since COVID, Charter School Board Members Are More Important Than Ever. Some Videos to Help These Essential Volunteers

Terry Ryan
Pandemic

A Teacher’s View: Remote Teaching Doesn’t Feel Like Teaching. Six Steps Toward Putting the Nuance Back Into Classroom Interactions

Nat Damon
Opinion

All States Now Required to Track Students’ College and Career Readiness, but Few Do It Well and Some Not at All

Richard Whitmire
Pandemic

It’s Not Just About Reopening Schools: It’s Time to Reimagine Education for Latino Students Altogether

Stephanie Parra
Opinion

Hipps: Solving for X — We’re Giving Away $10M in Grants for Proposals to Boost Algebra Success for Latino and Black Students, Like Me

Henry Hipps
Pandemic

A School Leader’s View: Our Schools Model End-of-Year Exams on the Way Grad Students Defend Their Academic Theses. Innovations Like This Are Needed Now More Than Ever

Gia Truong
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Adams: No Test Scores? No Problem — How NYC Can Screen for Admissions Without Exams and Find Out What Students Have Actually Learned

Alina Adams
4Fams

Porter: 10 States Honor Purple Star Schools That Support the Needs of Military Kids. More States and Districts Should Do the Same

Becky Porter
Keeping it 100

A Teacher’s View: Learning to Become Modern-Day Muckrakers in Their Community Made My Students More Engaged, Excited and Independent

Ife Damon
Opinion

Steele: Surveys Show Generation Z Seeks Different Education Paths. It’s Time We Showed Them All Their Options

Todd Steele
Keeping it 100

Integrating Schools is Not Just About Student Diversity; It’s About the Power of Whiteness

Cara McClellan
Pandemic

Students’ View: How COVID-19 Put Our Consulting Jobs On Hold & Led Us to Become Accidental Equity Entrepreneurs

Sam Margolis & Brad Gellman
Pandemic

Hodas: Like the Dinosaurs, Public Education as We Know It Is Facing a Meteor Moment. We Must Adapt to a New Model Beyond What We Know as ‘School’

Steven Hodas
Pandemic

Abdel-Kader: Global Learning Should Be a Priority, Especially During a Pandemic. That’s Why We’re Awarding Grants for Virtual Student Exchanges

Mohamed Abdel-Kader
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