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How Ed Tech Tools Track Kids Online — And Why Parents Should Care

UChicago student privacy researcher on companies’ risky surveillance practices: ‘It’s ultimately nobody’s business how you do in the classroom.’

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
school choice
50CAN

North Carolina to Launch Education Savings Accounts, With Up to $7,500 Per Child

Gov. Roy Cooper, who declared a ‘state of emergency’ over the GOP-led legislation, allowed the budget to become law without his signature.

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
school choice
Arizona

‘Growing Pains’: Microschools Face Regulatory Maze as Approach Takes Hold

Entrepreneurs are getting a crash course in everything from employment taxes to fire codes. 'We don’t want a graveyard of microschools,' says one.

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
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Innovative High Schools

Reinventing High School: 8 Common Trends at America’s Most Innovative Campuses

Reporters at The 74 fanned across America to find some of the nation’s most inventive and personalized high schools. Here’s what we learned.

Greg Toppo & Emmeline Zhao
school choice
education

Not-Back-To-School Time For Homeschoolers

Though homeschooling numbers dipped slightly from the pandemic’s peak, more than 3.5 million kids are still learning outside traditional classrooms.

Kerry McDonald
Science of math
conceptual understanding

As Test Scores Crater, Debate Over Whether There’s a ‘Science’ To Math Recovery

‘Science of math’ advocates say more explicit, orderly instruction is needed while critics see cherry-picked data and outdated, failed techniques.

Jo Napolitano
Author: Jo Napolitano
School (In)Security
Center for Democracy and Technology
School (In)Security

ChatGPT Is Landing Kids in the Principal’s Office, Survey Finds

While educators worry that students are using generative AI to cheat, a new report finds students are turning to the tool more for personal problems.

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
Future of High School
dcps
Future of High School

How D.C. Successfully Modernized a School By Embracing Its Legacy

To change the high school experience, H.D. Woodson High School is listening to its community.

Tanya Paperny

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Alaska
Future of High School

Alaska Natives Are Claiming Their Seat at the Table

The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program is combating the belief that “natives were not smart enough” to hold degrees or jobs in STEM fields.

Emmeline Zhao & Jim Fields

Innovative High Schools

Innovative High Schools
Brooklyn
Innovative High Schools

Why One NYC High School Created ‘13th Grade’ to Help Alumni After Graduation

Thousands of young adults are not working or going to college. How high schools like NYC’s MESA Charter can bolster support well after graduation.

Marianna McMurdock
Author: Marianna McMurdock
Innovative High Schools
career education
Future of High School

Internships Rule at The Met, Where High School is a Matter of ‘Trial and Error’

For more than 27 years, this legendary Providence institution has devoted itself to placing students ‘in an environment where they want to work.’

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
charter schools
Future of High School

A High School for Dropouts: Goodwill Offers Adults a Second Chance at a Diploma

From the organization known for second-hand records and cookware comes a school devoted to personalized attention and ‘small wins.’

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
Innovative High Schools
Arizona
Future of High School

Phoenix Teens Build Their Own High School Program From 500 Class, Career Options

At Phoenix Union City, high school doesn’t refer to a building but a personalized path of experiences that teenagers create for themselves.

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
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Opinion

Future of High School
dcps
Future of High School

How D.C. Successfully Modernized a School By Embracing Its Legacy

To change the high school experience, H.D. Woodson High School is listening to its community.

Tanya Paperny
Union Report
Duval County
Union Report

FBI and IRS Raid Local Teachers Union Headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida

A raid is not evidence that a crime has been committed. But the union's finances aren’t a complete cipher — & its officer salaries are off the scale.

Mike Antonucci
Opinion
Curriculum

Getting High-Quality Math Curriculum to the Students Who Need It Most

Livingston: Study of 934 districts finds the market is becoming stronger. But states and schools must still seek out the best educational materials.

Jeff Livingston
Author: Jeff Livingston
Opinion
opinion

Involving Young People on School Boards Is Good for Students — and for Democracy

Endres: Whether they're voting or advisory members, those most affected by board decisions should have a voice. 5 ways districts can make that happen.

Logan Endres
Author: Logan Endres
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education
Future of High School

Hip Hop Is Saving Teen Lives in Minnesota

By connecting with at-risk youth through music that is embedded in Twin Cities culture, one high school is getting students to learn — off the streets

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao
Video
Alaska
Future of High School

Alaska Natives Are Claiming Their Seat at the Table

The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program is combating the belief that “natives were not smart enough” to hold degrees or jobs in STEM fields.

Emmeline Zhao & Jim Fields
Future of High School
agriculture
Future of High School

California Wine Region ‘Growing Futures’ By Turning Vineyards Into Classrooms

Through a collaboration across industry and schools, Lodi is revitalizing a vital wine growing community.

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao
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School (In)Security
California
School (In)Security

Schools Are Now the Leading Target for Cyber Gangs as Ransom Payments Encourage Attacks

New research reveals how meeting hackers’ demands can backfire, feeding a cycle of attacks that are already crippling districts nationwide.

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber

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Schools Brace for COVID Surge: What New Variants & Vaccines Mean for Students

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
Maryland

Maryland Officials Want to Boost Schools’ Behavioral Health Services With $120M

Danielle J. Brown, Florida Phoenix
college students

‘Success Coaches’ to Hit Indiana Colleges After Budget Approval

Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital Chronicle
Arkansas

Biden Administration Urges States to Rectify Underfunding of Land-Grant HBCUs

Ariana Figueroa, Iowa Capital Dispatch
charter schools

Texas Districts Mull School Closures Amid Declining Enrollment, Competition from Charters

Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune
Arizona

No Rules for Arizona School Vans? That’s Because the Council for Them Has No Members

Caitlin Sievers , Arizona Mirror
Maine

Families of Young Children Say Maine is Failing to Provide Special Education Support

Nick Shroeder
Nevada

Clark County Teacher ‘Sickouts’ Ruled an Illegal Strike, Union to Appeal Decision

April Corbin Girnus, Nevada Current
Opinion

The Shakespearean Rise and Fall of Md Schools Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury

Kalman R. Hettleman
Author: Kalman R. Hettleman
Missouri

Lawmakers Consider Boosting Missouri Public Education Funding by $300 Million

Annelise Hanshaw, Missouri Independent
Maryland

Maryland Public Schools Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury Chooses Not to Return

William J. Ford, Maryland Matters
California

Soaring Chronic Absenteeism in California Schools is at ‘Pivotal Moment’

Carolyn Jones
Opinion

The Future is STEM — But Without Enough Students, the U.S. Will Be Left Behind

Mark Schneider
The 74 Interview

74 Interview: Stanford Economist Eric Hanushek on COVID’s Trillion-Dollar Impact on Students

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Opinion

AI Can Grade a Student Essay as Well as a Human. But It Cannot Replace a Teacher

Perpetual Baffour
Author: Perpetual Baffour
Opinion

New Charter Schools Need Vetting. But the Process Shouldn’t Shut Good Ones Out

Karega Rausch & David Greenberg
sex education

Filling the Gap: Internship Pays Texas Teens to Learn Sex Ed

Claudia Silva, El Paso Matters
Ohio

A Look Inside Classes at an Ohio Prison

Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal
Louisiana

Democrats Push to Extend Child Care Grant Program

Samantha Dietel
News

Hit the Snooze Button: States Debate Later High School Start Times

Elaine S. Povich, Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts
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