The Top Four
The Top
Four
The Top 4 Stories Making the News Today
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This Week in ESSA: Ohio, Montana, Oklahoma, New York Advance Plans as Group Promotes Evidence-Based Rules
2
Cunningham: On School Segregation, Teacher Union President Randi Weingarten Is Projecting
3
‘It Gave Us a Choice When We Didn’t Have One’: Private School Choice Participants Flood Capitol to Tell Their Stories
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Interactive: How Far Every State Has Gone to Update Education Policies Under the Every Student Succeeds Act
The Blackboard

A Phoenix Breakthrough: How 3 Massachusetts High Schools Are Helping Dropouts Become College-Bound Grads
opinion
 Sahm: Newark’s Charter Schools Deliver on Their Original Purpose — and Spark Innovation Across the District
opinion
 Cantor: When a Bounty of Options Aren’t Enough, How Poor Parents Really Practice School Choice
news
 The 74 Interview: You Don’t Think Your Child Is Average & Harvard’s Todd Rose Doesn’t Either
news
Los Angeles
Teacher Groups Frustrated With California ESSA Plan’s ‘Loose’ Definition of Ineffective Teachers
news
 12 Rhode Island Schools Vie for Chance to Become Their State’s 3 Personalized Learning Labs
news
 House Republicans Warn Education Dept. on ESSA Overreach as Democrats Lament Lack of Accountability Rules
opinion
 Cook: Pettiness Blocks Progress in Louisiana, as Governor Vetoes Common Sense Education Bill
news
 Weingarten Speech Tying School Choice to Racism Sets Off Firestorm
featured
Weisberg: Paying Teachers Not to Teach Is Absurd — but Reviving NYC’s ‘Dance of the Lemons’ Hurts Kids
news
 Turning Red: New Jersey’s Well-Heeled Teachers Union Backs Trump Supporter Over State’s Top Democrat
news
 Investigation: Forced Into Unneeded Remedial Classes, Some Community College Students Fail to Finish Degrees
news
Inspiring
How’s This for a Yarn? School Bus Driver Crochets a Personalized Toy for Every Student on Her Route
news
 Teacher Raises, Bathrooms, Vouchers: Texas Lawmakers Take Up Big School Fights in Special Legislative Session
opinion
Union Report
Analysis: How the California Teachers Union Is Spending Its Summer
news
 House Republicans Warn Education Dept. on ESSA Overreach as Democrats Lament Lack of Accountability Rules
opinion
 Simpson: When Teachers Act as Coaches, Everyone Comes Out a Winner
news
 More Attention to ELLs, Student Suspension, Fewer Test Days: NY Tweaks Its ESSA Plan
news
Inspiring WATCH: These 100 HS Grads Made a Splash With Pomp, Circumstance — and a Jump in the Lake
news
 Exclusive: Too Hot to Learn: Records Show Nearly a Dozen of the Biggest School Districts Lack Air Conditioning
news
Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Now, 100 Years Later, Wildflower Is Reinventing the Model
news
Every Student Succeeds Act
This Week’s ESSA News: Science Test Debate, a Career Readiness Blind Spot, and Massachusetts Has Work to Do
Flashcards
13 Things To Know About Charter Schools
opinion
 Ladner: ‘Frontier Justice’ From Parents at ‘Wild West’ Charter Schools Yields Great Results for Students
featured
A Summer Education Meltdown: Why Everyone in DC Is Mad About ESSA, Congress, Charters, Choice — or All of the Above
news
 DeVos Hears of Sex Attacks at Colleges & K-12 Schools as Feds Weigh Changes to Title IX Evidence Rules
opinion
 Cantor: Falling in Love Again (With School Policy) Binge-Watching ‘The West Wing’
news
Social-Emotional Learning Boosts Students’ Scores, Graduation Rates, Even Earnings, New Study Finds
featured
Bradford, Fuller & Stewart: Liberating Black Kids From Broken Schools — By Any Means Necessary
opinion
 Lieberman: ESSA Allows States to Focus on Often Overlooked Pre-K Ed Players — School Principals
news
 Connecticut’s Shame: In One of America’s Richest Counties, a High School Has Been Failing for 50 Years
Flashcards
LIFO 101: How ‘Last-In, First-Out’ Affects School Districts
news
 The Rise of ‘College Admissions Sabotage’: When HS Seniors Use Social Media to Rat Out Their Classmates
featured
74 Interview: Rep. Virginia Foxx on Better Career and Technical Education, ‘An Idea Whose Time Has Come’
news
Personalized Learning for Every Student: How 2 Very Different School Systems Pursued a District-Wide Strategy
news
 New Research: Louisiana Voucher Results Swing Upward
opinion
 Rice: Charter Schools Are Advancing the Cause of Black Education in America for the 21st Century