Weekend Education Reads: 9 Compelling School Stories You May Have Missed While Watching Fireworks
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What Colleges Really Think About How Teens Spend the Summer — Good Education (Jackie Sizemore)
Failure Factories, Two Years Later: The Fight for Fairmont Park — Tampa Bay Times (Cara Fitzpatrick)
The Charter-School Equity Push — The Atlantic (Eric Gorski)
When a D.C. School Closed for Renovations, Parents Faced a Troubling Choice — The Washington Post (Joe Heim and Clarence Williams)
Is School Overhaul Enough to Get State out of Contempt of Court — and Stop $100,000-a-Day Fine? — The News Tribune (Melissa Santos)
Need Jobs? Get Robots, and Education Right — Tech Crunch (Shanin Farshchi)
English Learners Often Go Without Required Help at Chicago Schools — Chicago Reporter (Kalyn Belsha)
Test Drive: New Hampshire Teachers Build New Ways to Measure Deeper Learning — The Christian Science Monitor (Stacy Teicher Khadaroo)
Colorado Teens Helped Design a ‘Dream School’ That May Become a Reality — 303Magazine.com (Megan McNeil)
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