The Top Four
The Top
Four
The Top 4 Stories Making the News Today
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NYC Catholic Schools Supe On Why Her Students Are Opting In
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Opinion: What Districts Have To Learn About Putting Good Teachers Where They’re Needed
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The 74 Interview: DeRay Mckesson, Baltimore Mayoral Candidate and Black Lives Matter Leader
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The Accidental Activist: One Mom’s Unlikely Crusade to Bring Better Schools to Northern California
The Blackboard

Exclusive: Data Shows 3 of the 5 Biggest School Districts Hire More Security Officers Than Counselors
opinion
 Analysis: Opt-Out Reality Check — Vast Majority of New York Students Are Taking 2016 Tests
news
 ‘Give Us Safer Schools’: 11 NYC Parents Decry City’s ‘Indifference’ to School Violence, File Federal Suit
opinion
On the Campaign Trail
Tucker: Time for Trump to Get Honest With His Coalition of Fear. It’s Not Walls They Need, But Better Schools
news
 Remedial Courses Come With Steep Price Tag — And Low-Income Students Aren’t The Only Ones Footing the Bill
featured
WATCH: New Common Core Video Series Shows How Kids Today Learn Math a Better Way
news
 LGBT Students Fight ‘Can’t Say Gay’ School Policies that Silence Teachers, Isolate Young People
news
Sex Ed, America, 2016: Where the Information Is Often Absent — or Medically Inaccurate
news
 Chicago Public Schools 101: The Politics, Passion and Hopeless Financials Behind a System in Crisis
featured
2 Geniuses, 2 Americas: Why I Want My Students to Read Ta-Nehisi Coates But Believe Lin-Manuel Miranda
news
WA Charters Saved: How WA Parents, Students, Advocates and Educators Rescued Their Charter Schools
news
Next Administration Will Decide on States’ New Accountability Systems, King Says
news
EDlection 2016 Baltimore’s Next Mayor: 13 Democrats Who Want the Job, and What School Challenges Await Them
news
Report: Career and Technical Education Programs Can Boost Graduation, Wages
news
 5 Key Lessons from the Successes (and Failures) of President Obama’s Teacher Evaluation Reforms
news
How 'Turnaround for Children' Uses Science to Build Social, Emotional Skills in At-Risk Students
news
 Connecticut School Funding on Trial: After A Decade, Equity Gets Its Day in Court
featured
Whitmire: America’s Best Charter School Doesn’t Look Anything Like Other Top Charters. Is that Bad?
news
 First Robotics: A Building Competition That’s Now Gaining State-Level Support as In-Class Curriculum
news
Opt Out Round II: States Walk a Line Between Boycotters’ Demands and Feds’ Funding Threats
opinion
 Chavous: The Real Segregation in American Education
news
 High Court Splits on Union Dues Case, Mandatory Fees Stand
opinion
 Sen. Lieberman: Why Is the Government Sitting on $35 Million Set Aside for Poor Kids in Washington, DC?
news
 Welcome to New Jersey, Where More Than Half of All School Board Races Have One — or No —Candidate
news
 Exclusive: Education Cities and GreatSchools to Admit Flaw in Statewide Rankings of School Inequality
news
EDlection 2016 In the Shadows of Wyoming’s Oil and Coal HeyDey, An Education Funding Crisis
news
Worried NYC Parents: It Takes a Village to Combat Violence in Public Schools, and Our Village is Failing
news
The 74 Interview 74 Interview: Nate Bowling, WA’s Teacher of the Year, on the Surprising Reaction to His ‘Conversation’ Essay
news
Inspiring
For the Win: 14 Inspiring Champs Who Made a Difference in Our Schools During the Month of March
news
 The 74 Exclusive: Ed Reform Groups StudentsFirst and 50CAN to Merge
news
Inspiring
The ‘Sleep Ambassadors’ of California: Why Stanford Is Training Teens To Preach the Importance of Shut-Eye
news
 The Desegregation War in Minnesota Heats Up, as State Judge Hands Charter School Advocates Key Win
news
 New Research Shows How a Federal School Turnaround Program Backfired in North Carolina
news
EDlection 2016
John Kasich’s Education Record: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
news
EDlection 2016
Funny Or Trump: Watch the Hilarious Online Spoof That Calls Out GOP Rhetoric on Common Core Standards
opinion
 Williams: Linguistic Politics, and What’s At Stake In November with California’s ‘Multilingual Education Act’
news
 ‘If I Was a Parent… I Would Opt Out’: New NY Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa Comes Out Swinging
news
 Congress Confronts a Balancing Act Between Education Research Data and Student Privacy Rights
opinion
On the Campaign Trail
Tucker: Progressives Like Bernie Sanders May Be Confused About Charter Schools, But Black Parents Aren’t
news
Los Angeles L.A. School District Meets With Parents in Effort to Calm Anxiety After Rejecting Parent Trigger Petition
Flashcards
LIFO 101: How ‘Last-In, First-Out’ Affects School Districts
news
Inspiring WATCH: This Is What It Looks Like When Michelle Obama Surprises A Classroom of 5th Graders
news
 UCLA Report on Charter School Discipline Makes Important Points — But Has Some Important Limitations
opinion
 Bill Hammond: Why New York’s ‘Failing Schools’ Fail — and How We Can Turn the Tide
featured
Mehlhorn: After Scalia’s Death, 3 Ways the Supreme Court Could Change Course on Education Reform
news
A New Class of Charter School Leaders Is Pushing Back Against Suspensions, and Rethinking Discipline
news
Inside NYC’s Very First AltSchool, the Tech-Driven Startup That’s Rethinking American Education
news
Video of Baltimore Cop Slapping Student Reignites Big Questions About Child Training for School Cops
news
The ‘Diplomas Now’ Way: Better Identify At-Risk Kids, Do Whatever It Takes to Get Them to Graduation Day
opinion
 Sahm: 5 Reasons Why John King Is the Change Agent We Need at the Department Of Education
news
The Wallace Foundation is Handing Out $47 Million to Make Principals Better at their Jobs. Here's Why
Flashcards
13 Things To Know About Charter Schools
news
Los Angeles L.A. Schools Reject Parent Petition — Casting Doubt on California’s ‘Parent Trigger’ Law
news
On the Campaign Trail Yet More Confusing Charter School Talk from Bernie Sanders: What Is a 'Private Charter' Anyway?
opinion
 Jeffries: It’s Not About ‘Bad’ Teachers or Unions. It’s About Better Preparing ALL Teachers for the Classroom
opinion
 Myth of the Hero Teacher? What the New York Times Gets Wrong About Schools Overcoming Poverty
opinion
 Jonathan Alter: The Most Important Discussion at SXSW Edu? ‘Changemaker Education’
news
 A ‘Start School Later’ Success Story in Missouri: Higher Graduation Rates, Fewer Suspensions
featured
Documents Show Teachers Unions Spent Millions on Luxury Hotels, Overseas Travel, Car Services
news
EDlection 2016
From Arne Duncan on Down: 23 Critical Education Questions For the Presidential Candidates
Flashcards
Understanding the Common Core: What it Is, What it Isn’t
news
 22-year ‘Moral Imperative’: All the Times Congress Tried, And Failed, To Protect Kids From Abusive Teachers
news
 Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s New Education Expert, Dr. Ben Carson
news
 CodeSpark: The California Startup That’s Using Apps and Games to Teach Coding to 5-Year-Olds
news
 When Downward Dog Is on the Syllabus: Why Schools Are Embracing Yoga
opinion
 Stewart: Finally, Unions and Reformers Might Agree on Criteria for School Closures
Flashcards
Test Scores and Teacher Evals: A Complex Controversy Explained
news
On the Campaign Trail Clinton Doubles Down on Obama’s K-12 Agenda, Commits $2 Billion to Fight School-to-Prison Pipeline
news
WATCH: In New Hampshire Schools, a New Strategy to Save Students from Heroin #EDlection2016