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Why Women Excel at Prized ‘Soft Skills’ but Still Trail Men When It Comes to Being Hired for the STEM Careers of the Future

David Cantor

How Arizona Is Building Its Own Talent Pipeline to Solve the Stubborn Teacher Shortages Hitting State’s Low-Income Schools

David Cantor

The ‘Middle Skills’ Gap: Half of America’s Jobs Require More Than High School Diplomas but Less Than 4-Year Degrees. So Why Are They Under So Many Students’ Radars?

David Cantor

Beyond ‘College for All’: With Success Eluding More University Hopefuls, High Schools Are Pivoting to Prepare Grads for Prosperity Without a Bachelor’s Degree

David Cantor

EDlection2018: Abrams Waits on Uncounted Ballots in Georgia Governor’s Race

David Cantor

EDlection2018: Gambling Revenues Will Be Used Exclusively to Support Education in Maryland

David Cantor

EDlection2018: DeSantis Squeezes by Gillum to Win Florida Governor’s Race, Will Work to Expand School Choice and Ensure More Spending Gets to Classrooms

David Cantor

EDlection2018: Cuomo Wins Third Term as New York Governor, Will Face Unrest Over School Funding Inequities and Segregation

David Cantor

EDlection2018: Pritzker Wins Illinois Governor’s Race, Will Face Chronic School Funding Inequities

David Cantor

Chicago Heads Toward First Teacher Strike in History of Charter Schools

David Cantor

Struggle for the Future: Schools Lag in Preparing Students for the Age of Automation

David Cantor

America’s Achievement Gap — Made, Not Born? What a Study of 30,000 Students Reveals About Lowered Expectations and Poorer-Quality Instruction for Kids of Color

David Cantor

De Blasio Approves Landmark, Parent-Led Desegregation Plan for Brooklyn Middle Schools

David Cantor

Investigation: Hefty Fines, Long Suspensions, but Rarely Losing Your State License: Documents Show What Happens to NYC Teachers After They’re Disciplined

David Cantor

Investigation: New Records Reveal What It Takes to Be One of the 75 NYC Teachers Fired for Misconduct or Incompetence Between 2015 and 2016

David Cantor

Investigation: Overshadowed by Shocking Abuse and Misconduct Cases, Teacher Incompetence Often Harms New York City’s Poorest Students

David Cantor

Investigation: Disciplinary Hearing Records Reveal Disturbing, Criminal, Sometimes Violent Behavior By NYC’s Most Egregious Teachers

David Cantor

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Handily Defeats Cynthia Nixon in Primary That Saw Other Progressive Democrats Surge, Could Impact Charter Support in State Senate

David Cantor

Mayor Bill de Blasio Wants to Diversify New York City Schools, Chancellor Richard Carranza Wants to Desegregate. Is That a Problem?

David Cantor

74 Interview: NYC Schools Chief Richard Carranza Talks Integration, Smart Parents, Renewal Schools, and Quality Assurance Across 1,800 Schools

David Cantor

Famed Marshmallow Test Yields Fresh Surprises: Kids Today Have More Self-Control, but Test’s Predictive Power Hard to Replicate

David Cantor

NYC Teachers Who Lost Their Jobs but Remain on the Payroll Receive Big Raises as Budget Watchdogs Call to Reform $136M Absent Teacher Reserve

David Cantor

Labor in the Age of Janus: 6 Things to Keep in Mind About American Unions on the Eve of a Pivotal Supreme Court Ruling

David Cantor

74 Analysis Shows Girls Already Outperform Boys at NYC’s Elite Schools Amid Fear That Opening Up Admissions Would Water Down Quality

David Cantor

Regifted: The First 7 Questions to Ask About Mayor de Blasio’s Ambitious Plan to Integrate New York City’s Specialized High Schools

David Cantor

With Easy Primary Win, Stacey Abrams Moves Closer to Becoming Nation’s First Black Woman Governor

David Cantor

From Voters to Donors, Education Emerging as Key Issue in California’s Gubernatorial Primary; While Newsom Leads, Cox & Villaraigosa Fight for 2nd

David Cantor

NYC Delays Releasing Teacher Misconduct Records for Two Years Despite Public Records Reforms

David Cantor

For the Smartest Students, a Tale of Two Cities: What Enrollment Numbers Reveal About How NYC’s Top Boys & Girls Are Sorting Themselves Into Different Schools

David Cantor

Unjust ‘Deserts’: New Report Maps High-Poverty Areas Across America Where Parents Have No School Options

David Cantor

NYC Education Dept. and NY Post Settle Case That Post Says Was Real Reason Behind City Reforming Public Records Rules

David Cantor

The Shock of the New: NAEP Moved Online, but Did All Students Move With It?

David Cantor

As NAEP Turns to Electronic Tests, Officials Say Scores May Be Lower Due to Basic Computer Skills — a Problem That May Have Affected 1 in 10 Testing Administrations

David Cantor

The Frontrunners for Florida Governor Are Still a Question Mark But The Many Education Issues That Will Play Big in the Race Are Not

David Cantor

Effort to Overturn New York’s Teacher Tenure Laws Wins Unanimous Appeals Court Victory

David Cantor

State Overrules San Francisco School Board, Approves KIPP Charter Elementary School

David Cantor

As Student Protesters Throng the Capitol, Senate Committee Pledges Safety Legislation Will Fix Parkland Vetting Gaps, Strengthen Background Checks

David Cantor

Georgia Voters ID Education as No. 1 Issue as Democrats and Republicans Battle to Succeed Reform-Minded Gov. Nathan Deal

David Cantor

467 Days & Counting: Despite New Rules and a Promise by Its Top Lawyer, New York City Continues to Withhold Teacher Misconduct Records

David Cantor

In a Quick Recovery, Mayor Bill de Blasio Appears to Get the NYC Schools Chief He Needed

David Cantor

Alberto, Prince of Dade: Lessons Mayor Bill de Blasio Can Learn From the Indecisive Chancellor Fiasco When It Comes to Picking One Who Will Stick

David Cantor

Chain of Schools: The Bitcoin, Blockchain Revolution Comes to Campus — but Are Colleges Ready?

David Cantor

New Report Shows Charter Schools Less Likely to Be Unionized Than They Were 6 Years Ago; Majority of Those Schools Located in 4 States

David Cantor

In the Shadow of New Jersey’s State Capital, Trenton’s Forgotten Schools Struggle to Get Better on Their Own

David Cantor

Janus, We Hardly Knew You: Rank-and-File Union Members Remain in the Dark About a Pivotal Dues Case Headed to the Supreme Court

David Cantor

With Better Data, Academic Results by Mexican Americans Thought to Be Stagnant Are Now Shown as Trending Steadily Upward

David Cantor

Not the Same as the Old Boss: After Carmen Fariña, What Mayor De Blasio Will (and Won’t) Be Looking for in NYC’s Next Schools Chief

David Cantor

New York City to Close 14 Failing Schools, Including 9 in Renewal Program

David Cantor

New York City’s Initial Bid to Reduce Teacher Reserve Falls Far Short of Goals — and Falls Mostly on Poorer Schools

David Cantor

New Study of 70,000 NYC Kids Shows Achievement Gaps Widening Over Time — Except for Asian Students

David Cantor

How Education Could Shape the Governor’s Race in California: Funding, Accountability, Charter Schools

David Cantor

Education Groups Demand Answers About Which Troubled Teachers Are Being Forced Back Into Classrooms — and Where

David Cantor

Despite Startling Achievement Gaps, San Francisco Board Rejects Bid to Bring KIPP School to Poor Neighborhood

David Cantor

Make College Free? Not So Fast. New Study Shows That Students Are Helped by Making College Better, Not Cheaper

David Cantor

The Would-Be Education Mayor: 4 Ways Bill de Blasio Can Elevate New York City’s Schools During His Second Term

David Cantor

An Election Day Lesson in How Little (and How Much) Has Changed in the Politics of Public Schools

David Cantor

74 Interview: The Rigorous, Not-Easily-Defined Education Reform Philosophy of Harvard’s Jal Mehta

David Cantor

The Shrinking of the Grand Old School Districts and the New Geography of Suburban Poverty

David Cantor

New Research: Driving Students to Better Schools Biggest Gain From $100M Newark School Reform

David Cantor

NYC Teachers Union Sows Confusion as It Delivers Raises, Double Dips on Dues

David Cantor

New York City Journalists, Parents, Teachers, Students All Left in the Dark as Education Dept. Fails to Answer 500 Records Requests

David Cantor

Exclusive: Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

David Cantor

New SAT Doesn’t Change Link Between Achievement Gap and Weak College Readiness

David Cantor

From Teachers to Nurses, NYC Has ‘Bent the Arc’ of Union Health Care Costs — but Was It Sacrifice or Good Timing?

David Cantor

Cantor — Public Is as Public Does: When Charter Management Organizations Resist Public Records Laws

David Cantor

New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent From Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools

David Cantor

Advocates Say Poor NYC High Schools to Blame for Grads’ Remedial College Costs

David Cantor

NYC Charter Schools Get 20% Less Funding than Traditional Schools, Study Says

David Cantor

485 Days and Counting: NYC’s Education Department Stymies Public Records Requests, Both Big and Small

David Cantor

Veto Override Uncertain as Fight Over Funding Illinois Schools Moves to the House

David Cantor

Reality Check: Before Smartphones Ruined Teenagers, It Was Video Games! And TV! And Elvis!

David Cantor

Why Is Illinois’s Governor Now Opposing His Own Commission’s Findings on School Spending? One Word: Pensions

David Cantor

Cantor: How Poor Parents Really Practice School Choice

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Cantor: Falling in Love Again (With School Policy) Binge-Watching ‘The West Wing’

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Turning Red: New Jersey’s Well-Heeled Teachers Union Backs Trump Supporter Over State’s Top Democrat

David Cantor

74 Interview: Rick Hess and His 21 Letters

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New Research: Louisiana Voucher Results Swing Upward

David Cantor

Analysis: The Fierce Fight Over Mayoral Control Reflects De Blasio’s Weakness on Education

David Cantor

Millennial Kids in Search of Millennial Parents: Rethinking How We Teach Love, Lust & Relationships

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You’re Not an ‘Interest Group’ Just Because You Believe School Funding Matters

David Cantor

Start School Later: New Study Shows That More Sunlight Before Classes Improves Test Scores

David Cantor

When $7B in Remediation Falls Short: The Broken Promises Colleges Make to Students Who Need More Help

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New Report: Only 1 in 5 Teachers Receive Full Pension Benefits

David Cantor

74 Interview: Max Eden, His Book About ESSA With Rick Hess, and the Ed Policy Rorschach Test

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Education Secretary: Rhee Bows Out, DeVos May Be It

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What Philadelphia’s Schools Chief Hopes to Hear From the Visiting Democrats on Education

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United Front: Teachers Unions Quietly Spend Millions on ‘Grassroots’ Groups

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