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Asher Lehrer-Small

Asher Lehrer-Small is a former staff reporter at The 74. He is currently a K-12 education reporter for the Houston Landing.

Houston ISD Voters Reject Bond, Delivering Rebuke of State-Appointed Leadership

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Dozens of Houston ISD Schools Will Be Required to Make 12% Budget Cuts Next Year

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Grieving Houston Students’ Well-Being at Stake as COVID-19 Funds Fade

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$190B Later, Reason to Worry Relief Funds Won’t Curb COVID’s Academic Crisis

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A Tiny, Hasidic District Won’t Explain How It’s Spending $94M in Relief Funds

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This Rural Illinois District Curbed Learning Loss With Help From a Burmese Church

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They Stood Up to NYC Schools For Their Disabled Child. Then CPS Arrived

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Detroit Schools Got $1.3 Billion in COVID Relief. Why It Might Not Be Enough

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Idaho’s 18-Year-Old School Board Member on Youth Voice And Right-Wing Extremism

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The Conservative Scholar Who Convinced GOP Lawmakers Civics Conceals CRT

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How Texas Lawmakers Gutted Civics

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District Attorney Launches Broad Criminal Probe into Stockton School Spending

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Often Unseen, Bus Drivers Can Help Schools Find And Support Homeless Students

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Hochul’s Proposal for Small-Group Tutoring Blocked by NY State Legislature

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50 Extra School Days: This District Uplifts English Learners With COVID Aid

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Maryland Schools to Receive Added $600M as Blueprint Funds Flow to Districts

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Q&A: Education Expert on Tutoring, Learning Recovery & Schools’ Staffing Woes

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Schools Still Pouring Money Into Reading Materials That Teach Kids to Guess

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NYC Parents Rally Against Mandated Reporting Policies for Educators

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Fixing a System that Set Up Youth to Fail: Rhode Island Overhauls High School

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Conservatives’ Civil Rights Complaints Target Meet-Ups for Students of Color

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Homelessness Threatens Rural Students Amid Affordable Housing Crunch

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Students Got $10K to Upgrade Their HS. It Drove a Citywide ‘Wave of Democracy’

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After 3 Weeks and a Flood of Details, Va. School Shooting Grows More Unthinkable

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New National Study: 1 in 4 Teachers Changing Lesson Plans Due to Anti-CRT Laws

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A New Playbook to Recruit Tutors: Tap Teachers in Training

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Inside the Incubator Using Apprenticeships to Redesign Teacher Preparation

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Maryland to Scale Youth Apprenticeship Opportunities with $12M Investment

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More Schools Have Closed in Kentucky This Year Than Rest of U.S. Combined. Why?

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Meet Skye, the 12-Year-Old Reporter Covering Georgia’s Runoff Election

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Maryland’s Humble Mission: Build the Nation’s Best, Most Equitable School System

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Historic Rise in Child Bereavement as COVID, Drugs and Guns Claim Parents’ Lives

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Federal Policy Protecting Native Youth From Unjust Family Separation is on Trial

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Virtual School Enrollment Kept Climbing Even As COVID Receded, New Data Reveal

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Second-Highest Youth Midterm Voter Turnout in 3 Decades, Early Estimates Show

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Gov. Abbott Re-Elected in Texas, Beating O’Rourke in Race Centering on Guns, Uvalde

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Data: Rural Schools Fared Better in Math, Worse in Reading Than Urban Districts

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MD is Not VA: Education Issues Playing Out Differently in Governor’s Race

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Strong Link in Big City Districts’ 4th-Grade Math Scores to School Closures

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ACT Scores Fall to Lowest Level In 30 Years

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Rural Teacher Prep Program Delivers ‘Job-Embedded’ Degrees — For $75 a Month

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Ending ‘Child Poverty Surveillance’: NYU Professor On Schools & Child Welfare

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Exclusive Data: Educators’ ‘Careless’ Child Abuse Reports Devastate Thousands of NYC Families

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Come to Class, Win a Toyota: Districts Launch Campaigns to Boost Attendance

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Beyond It’s Corn: ‘Recess Therapy’ Creator on the Secret of Following Kids’ Joy

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Not It’s Corn-y, Guaranteed: ‘Recess Therapy’ Host Shares His Top 5 Other Clips

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‘Inundated With Applications’: No Teacher Shortage at Virtual Schools

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Report: More States Are Giving Students a Say in Education Policy

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The ACLU’S Fight Against Classroom Censorship, State By State

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School Budgets Soar 16% Over 2 Years, But Experts Warn of ‘Bloodletting’ to Come

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Former COVID Data Whistleblower, Now Congressional Candidate With Bold K-12 Plan

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‘Too Good to Be True’: NH Gives Students $1,000 for Tutoring — Yet Sign-Ups Lag

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‘Untapped Talent’: TA to BA Teacher Prep Program Scales Six-Fold Amid Shortages

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‘Treat This As You Would Any Illness’: Schools Across U.S. Downgrade COVID Rules

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New Data: Was 2022’s Summer Learning ‘Explosion’ Enough To Reverse COVID Losses?

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ACLU-Backed Lawsuit Charges Florida’s ‘Stop W.O.K.E.’ Law Is Unconstitutional

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Gifted Summer Programs Skew White & Wealthy. Not Baltimore’s — And It’s Free

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Want To Become a Teacher? You Could Land a $25K Signing Bonus

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How Norway Cut Student Absences By 25% — And Why The Policy Is No Silver Bullet

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Democracy Prep Founder Seth Andrew Sentenced to a Year in Prison For Wire Fraud

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‘Low-Hanging Fruit’: Thousands of Same-Race Schools Within Miles of Each Other

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74 Interview: Seeing the Nuances Behind the Chronic Absenteeism Crisis

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Slave Money Paved the Streets. Now This Posh RI City Strives to Teach Its Past

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Mental Health, Teacher Shortages, Uvalde: Students Talk 2022’s Key School Issues

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Awakened By SCOTUS Ruling, Young People Join Push For Reproductive Rights

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FDA Authorizes Moderna and Pfizer Vaccines for Kids as Young as 6 Months

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Ohio Teachers May Soon Carry Guns. Among Experts’ Safety Concerns: Racial Bias

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COVID Vaccinations for Toddlers to Start After Juneteenth, White House Predicts

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‘It Doesn’t Feel Safe Going to School’: Students Reflect After Texas Shooting

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Does Your School Have a ‘Slander’ Account?

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Three Pfizer Shots 80% Effective Against Omicron in Toddlers, Trial Data Show

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Districts Recommend Masks — But Don’t Require Them — as COVID Counts Rise

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Federal Probe into Native Boarding School Deaths Likely a Severe Undercount

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74 Interview: 3 Generations, One Navajo Family’s Indian Boarding School Legacy

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Nonprofit Builds Community While Helping First-Gen Students Reach College

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SCOTUS ‘Pissed Off the Wrong Generation,’ Gen Z Activists Say

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Staffing Challenges Could Await New $100M Success Academy School in the Bronx

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Half of States Set to Ban Abortion Have No Sex Ed Requirements

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Outlawing School Segregation Spurred Gains for CA Chicano Students, Study Finds

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Congress Wants FDA to Explain Reported Delay in Moderna Toddler Vaccine Review

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The Children Left Behind By 1 Million U.S. COVID Deaths

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Bloomberg’s $50M Plan to Give NYC Charter Students a ‘Summer Boost’

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Youth Voice: Meet The 74’s All-New Student Council

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New Law Center to Fight Illegal Family Separation by NYC Child Welfare Agencies

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Moderna to Seek Authorization for Toddler Vaccine

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Losing a ‘Godsend to the Bronx’: Parents Push Back Against DOE Shakeup

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How the CDC Botched Revising Its Mask Guidance for Preschoolers

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Do Masks in School Work? Pair of Studies May Finally Put Debate To Rest

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As Mask Mandate Lifts, Parents Divided Over Their New Choice

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Masks Optional in NYC Schools Starting Monday, Mayor Says

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NY State Underreported Abuse & Neglect Allegations Made by NYC School Staff

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Black Astronaut Bernard Harris on ‘Terrestrial Mission’ to Boost STEM Education

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CDC: Schools May Drop Masks When COVID Risk is Low or Medium

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Two Studies Lay Out New Cases School Unmasking Could Trigger

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Black History Month: 'Unforeseen Consequences' of Brown v. Board

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Young Love in Time of COVID—Students Talk How Pandemic Has Changed Relationships

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Pfizer Postpones Request that FDA Authorize Doses for Kids Under 5

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Maryland Unveils ‘Ambitious’ Slate of Learning Recovery Programs

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Vax Up, Masks Down: MD, MA Look to ‘Off-Ramp’ Face Coverings in School

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Pfizer Requests FDA Authorize COVID Shots for Kids Under 5

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Over 9,600 NYC Students Reported to Child Protective Services Since Aug. 2020

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End of K-12 Contact Tracing? Some Schools Now Watching Symptoms, Not Exposure

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Sr. White House Advisor on Accessing School COVID Testing Amid ‘Supply Crisis’

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Adams: No Remote Learning Option in NYC Schools For 6 Months

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Ask the Doctor: Navigating the “New Math” of Omicron in Schools

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Reopening Struggle Revived as Thousands of Schools Close and COVID Cases Explode

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National Trauma: 1 in 450 Youth Have Lost a Parent or Caregiver to COVID

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AFT Launches Literacy Campaign, Pledging 1M Free Books for Families

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A COVID Vaccine Advocacy Group in Boston by Youth of Color, for Youth of Color

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Youth Ages 16 & 17 Now Eligible for Pfizer Booster Dose, FDA Says

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1M HS Grads Skipped College in 2020. Only Tiny Fraction Re-Enrolled in 2021

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NM Requires K-12 Staff Booster Shots as Omicron Fears Fuel Vaccination Spike

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As Threat of Omicron Variant Looms, School Closures Continue Ticking Upward

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Indigenous Parents Say Debates Over Teaching History Exclude Native People

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School Staffing Shortages — But Not Everywhere. New Data Shows Where It’s Worse

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Wave of Teacher Time Off Forces Districts Short on Subs to Cancel School

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COVID-19 Vaccines Roll Out for Young Children in NYC, Early-Bird Families All Sm

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Eric Adams Is NYC’s Next Mayor. 3 Key Education Issues He’ll Face

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More Districts Scrap Mask Mandates, Embrace Test-to-Stay Measures

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NYC Retained More Students than Other Major Districts, But Tallies Questioned

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FDA Panel Recommends Authorization of Pfizer Shots for Kids Ages 5 to 11

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Three Lawsuits to Weigh the Most Explosive Issues in Schools this Year

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ACLU Lawsuit Looks to Take Down Oklahoma’s CRT Teaching Ban

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Pfizer Shot 91% Effective at Preventing COVID in Children Ages 5-11

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NYC Won’t Say How Many Kids Are in School This Year. New Fears About Mass Exodus

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CDC COVID Youth Vaccination Figures Clash with Locally Reported Rates

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Over 100 Black Teachers on How to Build Culturally Affirming Schools

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COVID Shots Required for School Staff in 36% of Top Districts

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Pfizer asks FDA to OK COVID Shots for Kids 5-11, Could Roll Out Pre-Thanksgiving

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Study: AI Uncovers Skin-Tone Gap in Most-Beloved Children’s Books

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Exclusive Data: Absenteeism Surged Among English Learners During Pandemic

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Pfizer Sends Vaccine Data for Kids Ages 5-11 to FDA

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CDC Director OKs Booster Shots for Teachers and Other Frontline Workers

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STEM Report: 1.9M Fewer Low-Income Students in Afterschool Programs

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COVID Shots Safe and Effective for Children Ages 5 to 11

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Ask the Doctor: Did We Misunderstand the Risk of COVID for Kids?

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How These Educators of Color Built Community Online During COVID-19

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‘Everything’s at Stake’: Dallas Supt. on Masking Showdown & Academic Recovery

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97% of NC Survey Respondents Never Taught About State’s Eugenics Past

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Mandatory Student Vaccinations: District Gives Teens Until Nov. 19 to Get Shots

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CDC: Students Wearing Masks No Longer Need Quarantine, Even if ‘Close Contact’

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UNC Emails: ‘Who Are You Going to Believe: Abe Lincoln or Nikole Hannah-Jones?'

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Genocide ‘In My Own Backyard’: NC Classrooms Ignored State Eugenics History

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This Student-Led Nonprofit is Changing Teens’ Minds on the Vaccine

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Students Return In Person to 3 Districts That Never Fully Reopened Last Year

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Study: Did Online School Drive Down Cyberbullying?

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Ask the Doctor: How to Protect Young Kids from COVID

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Reimagined Summer School in Tulsa Draws 11K Students

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Youth Vaccination Rates Plummet, Reigniting Debates Over Masks in School

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64% of Top School Districts to Hold Virtual Academies, Delta May Spur Enrollment

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Delta Variant Marks ‘Most Dangerous’ Time in Pandemic for Unvaccinated Youth

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COVID Family Feud? Report Shows Moms More Resistant to Vaccinating Kids vs. Dads

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Education Secretary: Teacher Diversity Key in Post-Pandemic School Recovery

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Gender Gap in Vaccination Narrower Among Youth Than Adults

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New Data: Red States Offered 432 More Hours of In-Person Learning v. Blue States

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Court Scraps Vermont Ban on Sending Public Funds to Religious Schools

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Sleep the ‘Magic Pill’ to Restoring Teens’ Mental Health

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Oklahoma Law Forbids K-12 Vaccine Requirements

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Teaching Tulsa’s ‘Hard History’ After State Restricts Antiracist Instruction

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New Data: 27 States Abandon Universal Masking in School

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Family Input on $126B School Spending Key to Fall Reopenings

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School Districts Drop Mask Mandates, Against CDC Guidance

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Inequity In Higher Ed Costs U.S. $956 Billion Per Year

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How Schools Are Getting COVID-19 Shots to Eligible Students

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5 Key School Reopening Updates

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Youth Vaping Down Dramatically During Pandemic

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Immigrant Peers Spell Academic Gains For Native-Born Students

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Reopening Roadblocks & 7 Other Key Updates

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Youth Vaccines Expected This Summer; K-12 Shot Mandates Unlikely

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7 Key School Reopening Updates

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‘Doomed’ By 8th Grade: Barriers to College Start Early, Report Reveals

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5 Key Updates On Students Returning to Classrooms

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5 Key Updates On Students Returning to Classrooms

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'TA to BA' Fellowship: Improving Teacher Diversity, By Elevating Experienced TAs

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The Week In School Reopenings: 6 Key Updates On Students’ Return To Classrooms

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Many Rural Remote Learners Are Receiving Little to No Live Teaching, Federal Survey Reveals

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Reticent Families in NYC, LA Could Prove True Test For School Reopenings, Even As Gallup Poll Reveals Overwhelming Parent Support Nationwide

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New Study: 5 Ways Racist 1930s Housing Policies Still Haunt Schools

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As U.K. Variant Spurs Lockdowns Abroad and Takes Hold in U.S., Schools Should Be Prepared To ‘Pivot Quickly,’ Experts Say

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74 Interview: Burbio Founder On Becoming the Go-To Source on School Reopenings Nationally and Why Summer School is the Next Thing to Track

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Colorado District Uses High School Apprentices to Grow Its Own More Diverse Teacher Workforce

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As Adults Move Toward Herd Immunity, Could an Unexpected COVID Side Effect Be Kids Unable to Fight Off Germs Long-Term?

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What Do Predictions of ‘Herd Immunity’ Mean For Schools?

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Biden Administration Requires States to Test Students, But With Flexibility for Shorter, Remote or Delayed Exams. Experts Say Balance Struck is ‘Sensible’

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A Pre-COVID Education Study With Big Implications for Remote Learning During the Pandemic: When Parents Take Over, Children Give Up Easier

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74 Interview: Soon-to-be Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee on COVID-19 Response and Using Community-Based Afterschool Programs to Make Up For Lost Learning

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Outgoing Gov. Gina Raimondo’s Education Legacy: An ‘Atmosphere of Innovation’ in Rhode Island Schools

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Digital Stories of Empathy, Entrepreneurial Tips Over Zoom and Beyoncé: Dispatches from 2021’s Black Lives Matter at School Week

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With DeVos Out, Movement for Private School Choice Shifts to State Legislatures

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Study: Income Segregation Increasing in Classrooms

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Number of Districts Safe for In-Person Learning Shrinking, New Study Suggests

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How an AI App That Detects COVID Carriers By Their Cough Could Help Reopen Schools

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A Glimmer of Hope in Pandemic for Nation’s Ailing Catholic Schools, But Long-Term Worries Persist

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40,000-Person Iceland Study Finds Youth Under 15 Half as Likely to Catch and Spread Coronavirus

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States and Cities Lean Into Reopening Elementary Schools First As Data Affirm Lower Risk for Students, But Not Necessarily Teachers

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74 Interview: Hosts of ‘Bored of Ed’ Podcast on Post-COVID School Reimagined for Justice

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A Test Case in Providence: Can Majority-White Teachers Unions Be Anti-Racist?

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After Walking Out and Sitting In, Student Activists File Civil Rights Complaint Against Selective Admissions at NYC Schools

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As Coronavirus Cases Surge, New Antibody Study Shows Young Children May Be Less Likely to Spread Virus; Could Spell Good News for In-Person Elementary and Middle School Learning

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‘WAP’ and Sex Ed: How the Billboard-Topping Track is ‘Making Conversations About Sexual Health Less Taboo’

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A 2020 EDlection Cheat Sheet: Recapping the 48 Key Races, Winners and Campaign Issues That Could Reshape America’s Schools and Education Policy

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Retired Band Teacher Makes History as Kansas’s First Transgender Legislator, Nation’s First Transgender Lawmaker of Indigenous Ancestry

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Retired Longtime Teacher and Principal Headed to Idaho State House After Strong GOP Victory

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Fourth-Generation Educator Wins Florida State House Seat in Democratic Landslide

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Rhode Island Progressives Cheer the Defeat of Democratic House Speaker, Hoping It May Lead to More Education Funding

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The 25 Former Educators Poised to Win State Legislative Seats on Election Day

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Dear Future Me: For 26 Years, NJ Teacher Had His 6th-Graders Write Letters to Their Future Selves. This Year He Got to See Them Opened

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In One of the Few States to Mandate Personalized Learning, Coordinators Key to Keeping Vermont Students Engaged Before — and Now During — the Pandemic

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Their Backs Against the Wall: Small-City School Districts Like Providence, RI, Reopen With Aging Buildings, Few Resources

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154 Candidates. 38 States. Meet the Newcomers Who Ousted State Incumbents in the Primaries — and See How They’ll Fight to Reshape Education Priorities If Elected

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53% of Students at Youth Town Hall Report Schools Have Not Sought Their Opinions on Reopening. ‘Realize That We Are the Next Generation of Leaders,’ They Urge

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Student Voice: Connecting in ‘Ways That Are Terrifying and Beautiful,’ I’m Finding Meaning During the Pandemic Through Friendly Texts, Viral Memes and Joe Exotic

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