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Articles by Emmeline Zhao

Emmeline Zhao is projects & multimedia director at The 74.

In Boston, Bridging Meals with Learning

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

Reinventing High School: 8 Common Trends at America’s Most Innovative Campuses

Greg Toppo & Emmeline Zhao

Alaska Natives Are Claiming Their Seat at the Table

Emmeline Zhao & Jim Fields

Hip Hop Is Saving Teen Lives in Minnesota

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

California Wine Region ‘Growing Futures’ By Turning Vineyards Into Classrooms

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

From Textiles to Tech: How Rural South Carolina Trains Students for New Industry

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

How One Florida Mom Built a School, Just for Her Son

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

40 Years After ‘A Nation at Risk,’ Experts Talk About State of America’s Schools

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

How One Florida Mom Built a School, Just for Her Son

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

16 Under 16: Where Are The 74’s 2022 Class of STEM Achievers Now?

Emmeline Zhao

16 Under 16: Meet The 74’s 2022 Class of STEM Achievers

Emmeline Zhao

WATCH: An Inner City Teacher Helps His Community Capture Hope & Promise in Art

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

Inspiring: A Rural Teacher of the Year Connects Her 190 Neighbors to the World

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

Watch: How an Island Teacher Builds Community Bridges Through Her Hawaii School

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

How an Island Teacher Builds Community Bridges Through Her Hawaii School

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

Nominate a Student Today! Celebrating 16 Under 16 Excelling at STEM

Emmeline Zhao

WATCH: How One School Is Using House Calls to Keep Kids Learning During the Pandemic

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

Introducing COVID Warriors: How Educators are Saving a Generation from the Pandemic’s Lasting Calamity

JoAnne Wasserman & Emmeline Zhao

A Time of Reckoning for Race & Education in America: 5 Case Studies in How Students and School Leaders Are Pushing for Culturally Relevant Curriculum Amid the Pandemic

Emmeline Zhao

WATCH — 5 Ways Americans Can Challenge Schools’ Status Quo Amid the Pandemic: Jeb Bush, Arne Duncan, Margaret Spellings, Shavar Jeffries & Bart Epstein on a ‘Historic Opportunity’

Emmeline Zhao

Making It Work: A Day in the Life of Families Living Through a Summer Like No Other

JoAnne Wasserman & Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: In a Galaxy of Ed Tech, How to Figure Out What Distance Learning Materials Really Work, and Expert Bart Epstein’s Unconventional Home Learning Strategies

Andrew J. Rotherham & Emmeline Zhao

Despite May’s Slight Economic Rebound, Working Students Continue to Face Shattering Unemployment Numbers

Emmeline Zhao

Displaced: The Faces of American Education in Crisis

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview — Jeb Bush: Evolution of Republican Party ‘a Mess’; Americans Must Stop ‘Obsession About Washington, D.C.,’ and Look Toward States to Lead Through Coronavirus Crisis

Andrew J. Rotherham & Emmeline Zhao

The Education Pandemic: Inside Our New Reporting Initiative to Track Cities, Schools and Student Learning Through the Crisis

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview — Former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Implores Federal Leaders to Unite: ‘You’ve Got to Bring People Together Before You Can Start Solving Problems’

Andrew J. Rotherham & Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: Democrats for Education Reform’s Shavar Jeffries Pushes Feds: Coronavirus a ‘Historic Opportunity’ to Lead National Effort to Rethink Education

Andrew J. Rotherham & Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Urges ‘Empathetic Leadership’ Through ‘Brutal’ Coronavirus Crisis and Toward a New Normal

Andrew J. Rotherham & Emmeline Zhao

‘Is School Choice the Black Choice?’ It’s Time for the Black Community to Band Together to Reform Education From the Bottom Up, Leaders Say at Denver Town Hall

Emmeline Zhao

Photo Tour: In Rural Virginia, Unearthing the Forgotten Stories — and Heroes — Behind Brown v. Board

Emmeline Zhao

Returning to the Site of Their Segregated High School, Student Strikers Recall Their 1951 Protest and Urge That Its Role in Brown v. Board Not Be Forgotten

Emmeline Zhao

Is School Choice the Black Choice: A Lack of Student Performance Data and the Need for More Black-Run Charters Focus of Philadelphia Town Hall

Emmeline Zhao

‘Is School Choice the Black Choice?’: Roland Martin’s Education Town Hall in Atlanta Spotlights the Need for a Black Student Agenda and Unity

Emmeline Zhao

One-on-One With Lewis Ferebee: New D.C. Schools Chancellor Talks About Why Districts Need to Expand Career & Technical Education for Enrollment, Enlistment, and Employment

Emmeline Zhao

‘School Choice Is the Black Choice’: Roland Martin Kicks Off Education Tour With Indianapolis Town Hall, Tough Questions About School Innovation & the Achievement Gap

Emmeline Zhao

Exclusive: New Survey Shows a Majority of Business Leaders Believe U.S. Education ‘on the Wrong Track,’ Many Fear Poorly Performing Schools Could Harm Their Industries

Emmeline Zhao

Educators & Experts Say Personalized Learning Is Not About Technology or Money but Leadership and Relationships

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: Former North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue on Educating a 21st Century Workforce & the ‘Most Horrific Public Discussion’ She Ever Heard

Emmeline Zhao

Exclusive: Pathway 2 Tomorrow Issues Call for Innovative, Local Education Proposals, Seeks Solutions From ‘Voices Not Always Heard’

Emmeline Zhao

Exit Interview: Camden’s Paymon Rouhanifard Reflects on 5 Years of Surging Student Achievement, Expanding Parental Choice in One of NJ’s Poorest Districts

Emmeline Zhao

Ripple, Blockchain-Based Payment Network, to Grant $50M to 17 Universities for Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Research, Workforce Development

Emmeline Zhao

Exclusive — 39 States Can’t Say How Well High Schools Are Preparing Teens for College; New GreatSchools Report IDs Best Schools in 9 States at Getting Grads Into Higher Ed

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: Deborah Quazzo on the Business of Education Innovation, the Nation’s Shrinking Skilled Workforce & the GSV Acceleration Fund

Emmeline Zhao

WATCH: 5 Good Minutes With Purdue President Mitch Daniels on American Education and the Famous ‘A Nation at Risk’ Report

Andrew Brownstein & Emmeline Zhao

Robots, Grit, Personalization: 13 Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss at This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit

Kevin Mahnken, Emmeline Zhao & Romy Drucker

March For Our Lives Photos: Portraits of Students in Washington Taking to the Streets in Protest

Emmeline Zhao

VIDEO: 14 Students Talk About Why They Traveled to Washington to Join Their Classmates In Protesting Gun Violence

Emmeline Zhao

The View From Inside Saturday’s March For Our Lives: Students Demand a Revolution in Gun Control — and Lead a Deafening Moment of Silence — in Washington, D.C.

Emmeline Zhao

Exclusive: North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper: More Than Low Tax Rates & Quality of Life, CEOs Care About Education and a Skilled Workforce

Emmeline Zhao

Chiefs Talk Choice: Tom Boasberg Is Clear on Purpose — Driving Greater Equity for Historically Underserved Students

Emmeline Zhao

Chiefs Talk Choice: Pedro Martinez Has Sights Set on 1 North Star for Students: Graduation. But There Are Many Pathways There

Emmeline Zhao

The 20 Buzziest Education Storylines of 2017 (According to TopSheet Subscribers)

Emmeline Zhao

Exclusive Videos: 12 Changemakers Across the Country Who Are Reinventing American Education

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: Indiana Educator Earl Phalen on Innovating Classrooms for Low-Income Students of Color — and the NAACP’s ‘Phony’ Charter War

Emmeline Zhao

Vouchers Aren’t the Answer to Solving America’s Education Problems, Says Author of ‘Reinventing America’s Schools’

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: Michael Lomax, CEO of the United Negro College Fund, on Guiding Low-Income Students Through College

Emmeline Zhao

Raw Numbers: Charter Students Are Graduating From College at Three to Five Times the National Average

Emmeline Zhao

New Census Numbers: Per-Pupil Spending Rose 3.5% in 2015; Same-Year NAEP Scores Dropped

Emmeline Zhao

Women Hold Only 1 in 4 Elected Offices in the U.S. — but Schools Can Help Close That Gender Gap

Emmeline Zhao

Report: Family Well-Being, Education Decline for U.S. Kids Despite Recovery From Great Recession

Emmeline Zhao

How States Fail Their Teachers on Retirement: New Report Gives 42 States Failing Grades for Pensions

Emmeline Zhao

Video: John King on Trump, DeVos: ‘It Would Be Better for the Country If They Chose a Path of Transparency’

Emmeline Zhao

WATCH: 14 Ed Reform Advocates Discuss Politics, Common Ground, and the Radical Middle in Education

Emmeline Zhao

$8 Billion a Year on Ed Tech, but Does It Work? Experts Call for Better Research at Unique D.C. Symposium

Emmeline Zhao

Bipartisan Group of Ed Leaders Commits to ‘Productive Dialogue’ on Race, Social Justice, School Reform

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: Gail Saltz on the Connection Between Learning Disabilities and Genius

Emmeline Zhao

How Districts Are Joining the Fight to Close a Troubling Training Gap Among America’s School Leaders

Emmeline Zhao