The Top Four
The Top
Four
The Top 4 Stories Making the News Today
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Thousands Call for More Charter Schools at Brooklyn Rally
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The New Reformers: City-loving Millennials Who Want Quality Schools Not Tied to their Zip Code
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Here Are Students’ Candid Responses to Their U.S. Education
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Food, Friends and Funds: 7 Delectable Deeds Dished Out at School Lunchrooms in September
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VIDEO: Who Let the Dogs Out? How Therapy Dogs Are Aiding the Emotional Growth of Students
news
 KIPP Grieves, Mobilizes After Tulsa Shooting
opinion
 Opinion: The NAACP Stumbles on Charter Schools
news
The 74 Interview 74 Interview: Obama’s Chief for Black Kids’ Education Reflects on Wins, Work Left Undone
opinion
Union Report
Analysis: Now Critics, Unions Supported Build-Up of Police in Schools for Years
opinion
 Analysis: Hillary Clinton Is Right About Head Start
news
Inspiring
Fly Me to the Moon, Fifth-Grader: An Ohio School That Requires Ballroom Dance
opinion
 Opinion: The Promise of Multiple Education Pathways
opinion
 Opinion: New York Is Fixing Its Common Core Standards — and You Can Help
news
Three Incredibly Obvious Reasons Fewer People Want to Be Teachers: Study
news
EDlection 2016
Moral Duty or Impending Threat? Georgia Ballot to Include Proposed State Takeover District
news
 Complicated but Not Impossible: A Road Map to Avoiding a Second Chicago Teachers Strike
opinion
 Opinion: Sorting Out the Issues in the Teacher Shortage Crisis
news
Inspiring Virginia STEM Student Helps Mobile Carrier Fix Vulnerability
news
Some Teens Commit Crime So They Can Eat: New Reports
news
 Opponents of Ed Reform Also Unhappy With Candidates’ Silence on Education
news
 Black Charter Leaders to NAACP: Hands Off Our Schools
featured
A ‘Founders’ Excerpt: The Noble Network of Schools Thrives in Chicago — Against All Odds
news
 Much Attention on Upcoming NAACP Charter Vote, Even if It’s Just the Latest in a Long Line
opinion
 Opinion: It’s Back-to-School Season. Do You Know Where Your Employees’ Kids Are?
news
 The Last Days of One Alaska Village, as Climate Change Swallows Its First U.S. School
news
 New Research: Chicago Teacher Eval Pilot Moved Out Struggling Teachers, Kept Stronger Ones
news
 Reality Check: Are the Education Changes Demanded By Connecticut Judge Even Possible?
news
 In-Depth: Black Lives Matter’s Rashad Turner on Why He’s Quitting Over Charter School Attacks
opinion
Union Report
Analysis: New Warnings of Teacher Shortage Sound Like Déjà Vu All Over Again
news
The 74 Interview
74 Interview: Former L.A. Superintendent John Deasy Previews New Initiative to Rethink Juvenile Prisons
news
Inspiring
Teacher of the Day: Ms. Sampietro, Who Spent the Summer Building a ‘STEM Garden’ for Her School
opinion
 Analysis: 1 in 5 High Schoolers Is Chronically Absent. Here’s What Data Shows About Those Kids
news
 NJ’s Chris Christie to Challenge Decades-Old Abbott Funding Plan for Poor Cities
news
 Inside the South’s First LGBTQ School Where Students Are Safe, Free and Powerful
news
 A D.C. Charter Wins $10M to Invent Virtual Reality Programs That Will Change High School — All of Them
news
The 74 Interview
The 74 Interview: Harvard Education School Dean Jim Ryan Talks School Funding, Vergara and Ed Research
news
 Anne Holton, Former Va. Schools Chief and Would-Be Second Lady, Carrying Clinton’s Ed Message
news
Inspiring
Goodwill Excel Center, D.C.’s Newest High School Experiment, Designed to Help Adults Earn Diplomas
news
 3 Things to Know About the Explosive Houston Chronicle Investigation of Texas’ Special Ed Policies
opinion
 Tucker Haynes: Dissent in the Black Community as Educators Hijack NAACP Platform, Turn on Schools
news
 8 Things We Learned From a Big New Texas Study on Charter Schools and Students’ Future Income
news
 Raising Expectations at a San Antonio School Where Gifted Education is Applied to All
news
 Career and Tech Ed for the Modern Age: 3 Things to Know About the New Federal Proposal
news
 The Problem With Homework: Not Much Evidence on Whether It Works
news
 Whose Civil Rights? Florida Parents, Pastors Fear NAACP-FEA Will Appeal Scholarship Ruling
news
 New York City’s Summer Training Chasm: 2 Teachers, 2 Vastly Different First Weeks at School
news
The 74 Interview 74 Interview: RePublic Schools’ Ravi Gupta on the Next Frontier of the Education Reform Wars
opinion
The Founders By Richard Whitmire
Arne Duncan: What Impresses Me Most About the First 25 Years of Public Charter Schools
opinion
 What Teachers and NFL Players Have in Common: Pension Problems
news
 A $50 Million Lawsuit Has St. Louis Parents, Kids and Educators Worried Their Schools May Have to Close
news
‘Summer Melt’: Why Are Hundreds of Thousands of Freshmen Dropping Out of College Before Day One?
opinion
 Cami Anderson: School Reform 2.0 — Educational Excellence AND Equity
news
 3 Things the New Trump Book Reveals About His Rebellious, Defining Days in School
opinion
 Bradford: Why Black Lives Matter Must Protect the Parents Protesting Via Public Charter Schools
news
 Gifted Education, ESSA and Ending the “Persistent Talent Underclass”
opinion
 Magee: For Schools, the Hardest Part of Establishing Higher Standards Is Over
featured
11 Inspiring (and Inspired) Ways Students Across America Were Welcomed Back to Class This Year
news
 The Financial Catastrophe Looming Over Chicago Public Schools, in 6 Numbers
news
Uncommon Schools Recruiting Back Its Own Graduates to Diversify Its Teaching Network
news
The 74 Interview
74 Interview: Researcher Susan Dynarski on Boston Charters, Student Poverty, and Data in Education
opinion
 Petrilli: The Child Poverty Rate Plummeted After Welfare Reform. What That Means for Education
news
Exclusive: NYC Educators Recall the Day Trump Played Principal at P.S. 70 — and Offended Their Kids
news
EDlection 2016
Trump’s ‘Education Week’ Calculation: A New Pivot to Woo Reluctant Republicans and Swing State Minorities
opinion
Union Report
Analysis — When Teachers Unions Become The Man: Why Union Employees Are Fighting for Better Contracts
news
Inspiring Idaho Celebrates Mary Anne McGrory, the State’s 2016 Human Rights Educator of the Year
opinion
 Smith: A Few Thoughts About John Oliver’s Bleak, Unrepresentative Sample of Public Charter Schools
news
‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed Mohamed Sues, Citing Bias in Texas Schools — and Has the Stats to Prove It
opinion
 Matus: John Oliver’s Charter School Critique and the Left’s Growing Divide Over School Choice
news
 Parents Like Tests But Don’t Know How Much School Costs — 4 Takeaways from the New EdNext Poll
news
Inspiring This NYC Hospital Teacher Is Crowdfunding E-Readers for Sick Students Who Can’t Risk Handling Books
opinion
 Cynthia Tucker Haynes: How a Backlash Against Elites Became an Attack on School Standards
news
The 74 Interview
74 Interview: Prof. Chris Emdin Busts Classroom Myths, Talks ‘White Teachers in the Hood’
news
 California’s Sex Education Breakthrough: The Fight to Get Kids Information About Condoms — and Consent
news
Should They Stay or Should They Go: Missouri Families in Michael Brown’s High School Face a Hard Choice
news
 Millions of Kids Who Need Summer Meals Aren’t Getting Them. But Experts Have Some New Ideas
opinion
 John Deasy: Bridging the Chasm Between the World and Me — My Promise to Ta-Nehisi Coates
opinion
 Cunningham: Democrats Rewrite Education Platform Behind Closed Doors, and Abandon Core Party Values
news
The 74 Interview 74 Q&A: ‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed Mohamed Talks About His Arrest, How It Factors Into School Discipline Debate
opinion
 Petrilli: When Only Some Kids Can Afford Summer Camp — Why We Must Close the ‘Enrichment Gap’
news
5 States in Crisis: Budget Battles, Court Challenges, Political Bickering Leave Schools Millions Short
news
 ‘Our Voices Matter:’ Youth From 50 Countries Gather at United Nations to Tackle Access to Quality Schools
news
Recapping the RNC Live Blog: Empty, Confused and Dangerous Education Talk at Trump's Convention
news
Recapping the DNC Live Blog: Party Divisions Make Education a Risky Political Topic for Clinton
news
 Training, Internships, Jobs in Growing Industries: How YouthForce Nola Is Helping New Orleans’ Teens
news
NAACP May Double Down on Charter School Opposition as Civil Rights Allies Strongly Disagree
news
 Tinder for Teachers: New Apps Are Matching Lonely Educators With Schools Ready To Love Again
news
 K-12 at Gallaudet: Schools Beloved by Deaf Students Defy National Trend Away from Specialized Education
news
Washington, D.C. — The Pre-K Capital Where Nearly All 4-Year-Olds (and Most 3-Year-Olds!) Go to School
news
 Jersey Roar: Schools Make A Comeback in Camden, the Nation’s Most Distressed City
featured
The 74 Yearbook: Meet 21 Inspiring High School Graduates from the Class of 2016