Weekend Education Reads: 12 Interesting Links About Students and Schools You May Have Missed This Week

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Here are a few interesting articles we’ve been reading at other outlets this week, that you might have missed amid the breaking news:

What We Don’t Know About High Schools Can Hurt Us — Brookings (Mark Dynarski)

Los Angeles’s election night roller coaster — all spurred by absentee ballots — LA School Report (Mike Szymanski)

1 in 5 Washington State Students Have ‘Seriously Considered Suicide in the Past 12 Months’ — KXRO

Solving the Mystery of Underachievement — The Atlantic (Nick Ehrmann)

You May Have Seen ‘Hamilton,’ but Not Like This — Education Post (Lane Wright)

How Colleges Know What You Can Afford (and the Limits of That Tactic) — The New York Times (Kevin Carey)

Some Ohio School Districts Tail Parents to Check Where Family Actually Lives — The Columbus Dispatch (Shannon Gilchrist)

Rhode Island Schools Seeking Out-of-Town Students to Pay for Access to Small Classes — NBC 10 News (Bill Rappleye)

How Ballet Is Energizing One Memphis School — and Helped Save It From Closing — Chalkbeat (Caroline Bauman)

New York City Charter Schools See Record 73,000 Student Applications – New York Daily News (Ben Chapman)

Inside a High School Training Future Teachers — The Atlantic (Christina Veiga)

Sesame Street’s ‘Maria’ Promotes Education in Milwaukee — BizTimes Milwaukee (Lauren Anderson)