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Articles by Kate Stringer
Self-Regulation by Any Other Name: New Harvard Project Connects the Similar and Disparate Words of Social-Emotional Learning
Kate Stringer
August 7, 2020
Not Many Afterschool Programs Teach Social-Emotional Learning. Wings for Kids Does, and New Gold Standard Study Finds It’s Working for Low-Income Students
Kate Stringer
January 13, 2020
Designing a School Around Project-Based Learning: How NYC’s Portfolio School Reconceived Its Campus With PBL — and Intentionally Slow Growth — in Mind
Kate Stringer
December 8, 2019
New Education Doctorate Focused on Social-Emotional Learning Is One of the First of Its Kind as Experts Call for Better Teacher Training on the Whole Child
Kate Stringer
December 4, 2019
To Build Emotional Intelligence in Students, Start With the Adults. SEL Pioneer Marc Brackett Helps Schools Do Both in ‘Permission to Feel’
Kate Stringer
October 7, 2019
What’s an Emotion Scientist? Inside the New Concept Shaping Social-Emotional Learning
Kate Stringer
August 5, 2019
With New Study Showing a Student’s Connection to Their School and Family Can Have Lasting Health Benefits, 4 Ways Educators Can Build Stronger Relationships
Kate Stringer
July 30, 2019
For State Leaders Who Want Personalized Learning in Schools, New Report Shares 5 Ways to Support Teachers Through Policy
Kate Stringer
July 29, 2019
After Saying It Would Go Above and Beyond to Educate Its Foster Care Students, Indiana Unveils a Plan That Is Little More Than Bullet Points
Kate Stringer
July 21, 2019
The Mastery Transcript Consortium Has Been Developing a Gradeless Transcript for College Admissions. This Fall It Gets Its First Test
Kate Stringer
July 14, 2019
Most Educators Assess Their Students’ Social-Emotional Learning, but Few See the Whole Picture. Here’s What They’re Missing
Kate Stringer
July 10, 2019
SEL in the House: Democrats Approve Millions in Landmark Federal Funding for Social-Emotional Learning in Bill That Now Faces Test in Senate
Kate Stringer
July 9, 2019
The Mentor: One Year, Two Teachers and a Quest in the Bronx to Empower Educators and Students to Think for Themselves
Kate Stringer
June 24, 2019
These Kid Reporters at Scholastic Interview National and Global Leaders. Answering Their Questions This Week: Education Activist Ziauddin Yousafzai, Father of Malala
Kate Stringer
June 12, 2019
Failure Is an Option: For Students at Iowa Big, Tests Come First, Learning From Experiences Follows
Kate Stringer
June 7, 2019
74 Interview: Curriculum Designer Christina Riley Teaches Students Compassion and Empathy Alongside Literacy. Here’s How She Does It
Kate Stringer
June 4, 2019
Students Around the World Practice Mindfulness Together as Part of ClassDojo and Yale ‘Mindful Moment’ Initiative
Kate Stringer
May 10, 2019
In These Rural Schools, the Computer Science Teachers Are Volunteers Who Work for Microsoft, Amazon and Google. That’s Opening Doors for Their Students
Kate Stringer
May 6, 2019
As Indiana’s Foster Care Population Rises, New State Data Reveal Troubling Outcomes for Students — but Questions Remain About Whether These Numbers Tell the Whole Story
Kate Stringer
April 10, 2019
Individual ‘Success Plans’ for Every Student? Harvard’s Education Redesign Lab Proposes 10 Guidelines for How Educators & Communities Can Unite to Support the Whole Child
Kate Stringer
April 3, 2019
CTE Classes Are Popular, but Only 25% of Students Take Courses That Could Lead to the Nation’s Biggest Industries, New Study Finds
Kate Stringer
April 3, 2019
1 in 4 Parents Would Pay Off College Admissions Officers If They Had the Money, New Poll Finds
Kate Stringer
March 20, 2019
At Seattle’s Experimental, Experiential Downtown School, Students Learn How to Learn With an Entire City as Their Laboratory
Kate Stringer
March 18, 2019
Millennials Are More Likely to Support School Choice — a SXSWedu Panel Reveals Why
Kate Stringer
March 7, 2019
The 74 Interview: Do Standards and Project-Based Learning Go Hand in Hand? Prof. Nell Duke Says Yes, & Looks at the Best & Worst of PBL
Kate Stringer
March 6, 2019
Inside the Surprising SXSW Education Panel That Turned the Spotlight on the Gap Between White Families With Educational Options — and Black Neighbors Who Have None
Kate Stringer
March 5, 2019
How 8 Large California Districts Are Using Data to Decode Social-Emotional Learning — and Predict Students’ Academic Success
Kate Stringer
March 5, 2019
South By Southwest Education: 19 Sessions & Speakers Worth Seeing at SXSW 2019
Steve Snyder & Kate Stringer
February 27, 2019
ESSA Says State Report Cards Must Track How Many Students in Foster Care Are Passing Their Reading & Math Tests and Graduating High School. Only 16 Do
Kate Stringer
February 20, 2019
Scores Show 850,000 High School Juniors Are Ready for College. Starting Early Could Save Them Time — and Money. New Report Asks: Why Make Them Wait?
Kate Stringer
February 20, 2019
Exclusive: Student Data Needs Protecting, New Report Says. Hiring a Chief Privacy Officer Can Help Schools and Districts Do Just That
Kate Stringer
January 30, 2019
Not All Student Growth Is Created Equal — How 48 States Are Using It Differently in Their Report Cards
Kate Stringer
January 23, 2019
From Redesigned Professional Learning to Teacher Leadership, 6 Strategies to Support Teachers of Competency-Based Education
Kate Stringer
January 22, 2019
Bored in Class: A National Survey Finds Nearly 1 in 3 Teens Are Bored ‘Most or All of the Time’ in School, and a Majority Report High Levels of Stress
Kate Stringer
January 16, 2019
200 Students, Parents & Educators Spent Two Years Thinking About How to Support the Whole Child. Here Are 6 Things They Found
Kate Stringer
January 15, 2019
Exclusive: New National Initiative Pathway 2 Tomorrow Bestows $100,000 Innovation Award to Two Groups Promoting Student Voice in Iowa & Kentucky
Kate Stringer
January 8, 2019
18 Key Education Stories to Watch This Year (According to the Experts): Congress, Courts, Choice, Classroom Innovations & More
Beth Hawkins, Mark Keierleber, Carolyn Phenicie, Esmeralda Fabián Romero, Kate Stringer & Taylor Swaak
January 7, 2019
As Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Steps Away From Public Life, Her Legacy, iCivics, Begins Broad Push for Increased Civics Education
Kate Stringer
January 2, 2019
What’s in a Report Card? Depends on Who You Ask. New Report Shows That Parents and Teachers Have Very Different Understandings of Grades & Tests
Kate Stringer
December 11, 2018
Schools Have Plenty of Good Ideas, but They Don’t Always Know How to Implement Them. New Report Aims to Improve ‘Fragmented’ Education Systems
Kate Stringer
December 3, 2018
When Co-Curriculars Spark Careers: Over 80 Years, How ‘Career and Technical Student Organizations’ Have Evolved From Bricklaying to Business Management to Robotics
Kate Stringer
November 27, 2018
Not Your Average Student Council: How Chicago’s Student Voice Committees Are Giving Kids a Real Say in Their Schools
Kate Stringer
November 12, 2018
EDlection 2018: Republican Sherri Ybarra Re-elected as Idaho School Superintendent in Close Race
Kate Stringer
November 7, 2018
EDlection2018: Republican Brad Little Projected Winner of Idaho Governor Race, With Plans to Support Vocational Training and Early Education
Kate Stringer
November 7, 2018
EDlection 2018: Republican Kim Reynolds Becomes Iowa’s First Female Elected Governor, After Term Addressing Mental Health, STEM
Kate Stringer
November 7, 2018
EDlection 2018: Washington State Legislature Increases Blue Majority, Dems Hope to Pass Capital Gains Taxes for Education
Kate Stringer
November 7, 2018
EDlection 2018: Oklahomans Strike Down Measure to Expand How Property Taxes Can Fund Schools
Kate Stringer
November 7, 2018
EDlection2018: Democrat Laura Kelly Projected to Win Kansas Governor Race, With Promise to Fully Fund Schools
Kate Stringer
November 6, 2018
EDlection 2018: Maryland Incumbent Gov. Larry Hogan Projected Winner, Will Help Lead State’s New Direction in Education
Kate Stringer
November 6, 2018
New Film ‘Unlikely’ Shows How Higher Ed Sets Up Low-Income Students for Failure — and How Some Educators Are Helping Them Succeed
Kate Stringer
October 30, 2018
This Time, Washington State Supreme Court Upholds Charter School Law
Kate Stringer
October 25, 2018
For 36 Million Workers, a College Degree Was the Path to a Good Job. But That’s Not the Only Way to Get One
Kate Stringer
October 24, 2018
Summit Is Spinning Off Its Popular Personalized Learning Platform, Creating New Nonprofit to Take the Helm
Kate Stringer
October 24, 2018
When Families and Schools Work Together, Students Do Better. New Report Has 5 Ways of Engaging Parents in Their Kids’ Education
Kate Stringer
October 23, 2018
The Kids Are All Right: Teens Say Social Media Makes Them Feel Better About Themselves, Less Lonely & Less Depressed
Kate Stringer
October 10, 2018
Private School Choice Enrolls a Half-Million Kids, & Growing; Florida, Wisconsin Have Top-Rated Programs, New Report Finds
Kate Stringer
October 3, 2018
‘It Was a Shocker’: National Student Survey Shows Bullying on the Rise Over Past Three Years, Particularly Among Students of Color in Majority-White Schools
Kate Stringer
September 24, 2018
Election Preview: Kansas’s Supreme Court Wants the State’s Schools Fully Funded, but the Two Candidates Vying for Governor Have Very Different Ideas About That
Kate Stringer
September 19, 2018
When Learning Social Skills, Special Ed Students Do Best When Grouped by Social Ability, Not by Disability, Study Finds
Kate Stringer
September 12, 2018
Snapshot: How Many Students in the Public School System Are Homeless?
Kate Stringer
September 5, 2018
Citizenship as a Classroom Priority: New Gallup Poll Shows 74 Percent of Superintendents Say ‘Preparing Engaged Citizens’ Has Become a Major Challenge For Their Districts
Kate Stringer
August 30, 2018
New Poll: For First Time Ever, a Majority of American Parents Do Not Want Their Children to Become Public School Teachers
Kate Stringer
August 27, 2018
WATCH: Teachers Go Back to School With Harry Potter — and It Works Magic on Their Students!
Kate Stringer
August 22, 2018
Why a Boston Teachers College Is Sending Its Students to Northern Ireland to Learn About a Child Trauma Program That Could Help U.S. Kids, Too
Kate Stringer
August 21, 2018
74 Interview: NewSchools Venture Fund’s Stacey Childress on 20 Years’ (and $300 Million) Worth of School Breakthroughs & What She’s Learned About Supporting Education Innovation
Kate Stringer
August 13, 2018
6.7% of Students Skip School out of Fear. Worry Over School Shootings Is Up. Yet School Violence Is Down. What Does This Mean?
Kate Stringer
August 8, 2018
An EDlection Showdown in Maryland: Could a ‘Blue Wave’ Unseat America’s Second-Most Popular Governor — and Reshape the State’s Education Priorities?
Kate Stringer
August 6, 2018
The 74 Interview: Harvard’s Karen Mapp on ESSA, Family Engagement, and How Schools and Communities Can Partner to Help Kids Succeed
Kate Stringer
August 6, 2018
New Hi-Tech Certification Program From International Technology Group Puts the Emphasis on Teachers and Collaboration, Rather Than Devices or Software
Kate Stringer
July 30, 2018
The State of America’s Foster Care Students: How the Every Student Succeeds Act Is Designed to Better Understand and Support These 430,000 Kids
Kate Stringer
July 27, 2018
Smarter Crowdfunding for Classrooms: When Teachers Fundraise Technology, Their Districts Can’t Always Support It. DonorsChoose Now Has a Fix for That
Kate Stringer
July 26, 2018
The State of America’s Foster Care Students: How the Every Student Succeeds Act Is Designed to Better Understand and Support These 430,000 Kids
Kate Stringer
July 24, 2018
How Many Foster Care Students Are There in the United States?
Kate Stringer
July 24, 2018
The State of America’s Foster Care Students: How the Every Student Succeeds Act Is Designed to Better Understand and Support These 430,000 Kids
Kate Stringer
July 24, 2018
American Schools Are Safer Than Ever, but Annual Education Poll Reveals 1 in 3 Parents Now Fear That Their Children Are in Danger on Daily Basis
Kate Stringer
July 17, 2018
What Is Social-Emotional Learning and How Does It Affect Kids?
Kate Stringer
July 8, 2018
Janus Ruling Reflects Public Opinion Against Mandatory Union Fees, New Poll Finds
Kate Stringer
June 27, 2018
New Research: Despite Great Enthusiasm for Personalized Learning, Teachers Say Attempts to Innovate Are Often Stymied by School District Bureaucracy
Kate Stringer
June 21, 2018
Exclusive: Poll Shows Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Would Support Supreme Court Striking Down Mandatory Union Dues in Janus Case; Majority of Union Households Agree
Kate Stringer
June 20, 2018
Packed Oklahoma Gubernatorial Race Fueled by Political Turmoil of Teacher Walkouts, Diverging Views on Education Priorities
Kate Stringer
June 17, 2018
Laxalt & Sisolak Win Nevada Primary for Governor, Setting Up Race That Will Focus on Dismal Education Rankings, Funding of Education Savings Accounts & Teacher Salaries
Kate Stringer
June 13, 2018
These California School Districts Joined Forces to Bolster Social-Emotional Development, but a Study of 400,000 Kids Reveals Learning Gaps and a Confidence Crisis Among Middle School Girls
Kate Stringer
June 12, 2018
How a North Carolina District Is Using ESSA’s Support for Family Engagement to Give Students 120,000 Books to Help Combat Summer Slide
Kate Stringer
June 6, 2018
Are Poor Kids Really Behind by 30 Million Words? A Debate Rages as New Research Questions One of Early Childhood’s Premier Studies — and Researchers Say It’s More Complicated
Kate Stringer
June 4, 2018
Driven by Common Core Rigor, States Are Raising Proficiency Bar for Reading and Math, New Report Finds
Kate Stringer
May 31, 2018
Are Charter Schools Legal in Washington State? As Sector Continues to Grow, Court Will Take Up the Question — Again
Kate Stringer
May 16, 2018
Under Shadow of Online Charter School Scandal, Mike DeWine & Richard Cordray Win Primaries in Race for Ohio Governor
Kate Stringer
May 9, 2018
Exclusive: 20 Bipartisan ‘Charter Champions’ Honored by National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Sen. Orrin Hatch Receives ‘Lifetime Achievement’ Award
Kate Stringer
May 9, 2018
$14 Million From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Will Nearly Double Personalized Learning in Chicago Public Schools
Kate Stringer
May 7, 2018
Can a Few Simple Letters Home Reduce Chronic Absenteeism? New Research Shows They Can
Kate Stringer
May 2, 2018
Awkward in Wisconsin: Assistant Supe Tweets Personalized Learning ‘Is Like Teenage Sex’
Kate Stringer
May 2, 2018
Sketchbooks. Makerspaces. Student Startups. Inside America’s Largest Personalized Learning Experiment, How One Rhode Island ‘Lighthouse Laboratory’ Is Reimagining School
Kate Stringer
May 1, 2018
A Cyberattack, a Cut Cable & a Software Glitch: Why Tennessee Is Discounting Student Test Scores — and Wants the Feds to Do the Same
Kate Stringer
April 30, 2018
Do Pre-K Teachers Need a Bachelor’s Degree? National Initiative Seeks Consensus on Decades-Old Debate
Kate Stringer
April 27, 2018
3 Ways Parents Can Support Their Children’s Math Development — and Soothe Their Own Math Anxiety
Kate Stringer
April 24, 2018
Idaho Governor Hopefuls Make Education a Campaign Priority In the ‘Scroll-Down State’; Differ on Key Elements of Early Education, School Choice, Guns
Kate Stringer
April 23, 2018
What You Never Realized You Were Teaching Your Child About Grit & Resilience: MIT Study Captures Techniques That Work for Babies as Young as 13 Months
Kate Stringer
April 9, 2018
New Mexico Tests True Power of ESSA by Rejecting Turnaround Plans for the 4 Worst Schools in the State
Kate Stringer
April 9, 2018
Most KIPP Grads Report a Sense Of Belonging and Engagement In College, New Report Finds
Kate Stringer
April 5, 2018
Toilet Paper, Glow Sticks, and Multiplication: Study Shows How One Free After-School Club Can Help Reduce Math Anxiety
Kate Stringer
March 30, 2018
Women’s History Month: These Female Trailblazers Changed American Education For You and Your Kids. Do You Know Their Names?
Kate Stringer
March 27, 2018
America Remembers Linda Brown, 75, the Third-Grader Who Became The Face of ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ And Overturned School Segregation
Laura Fay, Mark Keierleber & Kate Stringer
March 27, 2018
How Catholic Nuns Brought Education & Female Empowerment to Millions of Children, Women & Immigrants by Teaching Students on the Fringes
Kate Stringer
March 25, 2018
Oakland’s New Superintendent Is a Homegrown Leader for a District in Financial Turmoil
Kate Stringer
March 20, 2018
Meet Lucy Wheelock: How an Early-20th-Century Educator Saved Kindergarten for Generations of U.S. Kids — & Founded Her Own College
Kate Stringer
March 19, 2018
New Analysis of Personalized Learning Programs Shows Reading Gains for Chicago Students
Kate Stringer
March 18, 2018
Gallup Poll: Most Educators Don’t Want to Be Armed With Guns
Kate Stringer
March 16, 2018
‘Boo Guns!’ — New Jersey Parents Sign Their Young Children Out of School for a Teachable Moment In Civic Engagement
Kate Stringer
March 14, 2018
Rise of Fake News Gives New Urgency to Media Literacy Education in America’s Schools
Kate Stringer
March 12, 2018
Meet Fanny Jackson Coppin: Born Into Slavery, She Graduated From College, Became a Teacher — and Lifted Up Generations of Black Americans
Kate Stringer
March 12, 2018
Why Some Colleges Are Reassuring High Schoolers: If You Walk Out Wednesday, Don’t Worry — Peaceful Protests Won’t Hurt Admissions
Kate Stringer
March 12, 2018
1 Teen Dead, Another Injured After Birmingham, Alabama, High School Shooting; at Least 27 Killed & 46 Injured at Schools in 2018
Kate Stringer
March 9, 2018
Meet Ella Flagg Young, First Female School Superintendent of a Major U.S. City — and Ed Reform’s Forgotten Thought Leader
Kate Stringer
March 6, 2018
Harvard-MIT Personalized Learning Program to Help Early Readers Gets $30M From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Kate Stringer
March 6, 2018
Texas Nonprofit Gets $790K Grant for Efforts to Boost Diversity in the Teaching Workforce
Kate Stringer
March 5, 2018
No One Would Hire Her. So She Wrote Title IX and Changed History for Millions of Women. Meet Education Trailblazer Patsy Mink
Kate Stringer
March 1, 2018
Oscar Preview: 3 Ways Education Could Take Center Stage at Sunday Night’s Academy Awards
Kate Stringer
February 28, 2018
Inside ‘Lady Bird’: Greta Gerwig Says She Wanted to Write a Different Kind of Love Letter to Catholic School — and It Might Just Win Her an Oscar
Kate Stringer
February 28, 2018
Oscar-Nominated Documentary Tells of Texas Math Teacher’s Violent Encounter With Police — and Her Struggle to Heal
Kate Stringer
February 27, 2018
DeKalb Elementary: Filmmaker Behind the Oscar-Nominated Short Talks About the Georgia School Shooting That Wasn’t
Kate Stringer
February 26, 2018
Wildflower to Bring Montessori Microschools to Indianapolis After Winning Charter Design Challenge From The Mind Trust
Kate Stringer
February 21, 2018
The State of Education in North Carolina: Funding Choices for Low-Income Kids, the Vast Rural-Urban Divide, a New Turnaround District & More
Kate Stringer
February 21, 2018
Survey: 1 in 3 Community College Students Reports Inadequate Advising on Academic Plans; 60 Percent Report Lack of Information About Job Opportunities
Kate Stringer
February 13, 2018
Analysis of Personalized Learning Programs in Chicago Shows That Strong Teacher Leaders, Not Technology, Key for Financial Sustainability
Kate Stringer
February 13, 2018
Learning From Olympians: How Classroom Champions Is Pairing Athletes With Schools to Offer Unique Lessons on Grit, Goals, and Perseverance
Kate Stringer
February 9, 2018
Want to Make Gifted Education More Equitable? First, Be Aware of the Political Winds That Drove (and Derailed) Innovative Policies in These States
Kate Stringer
February 7, 2018
A New Push for Play-Based Learning: Why Districts Say It’s Leading to More Engaged Students, Collaborative Classmates … and Better Grades
Kate Stringer
February 6, 2018
The Path of Opportunity, the Path of Despair: John King offers Urban Alliance a Tale of Two High Schools
Kate Stringer
February 1, 2018
In America’s Smallest State, a Proposal for a Colossal Surge in Public Dollars for Private Schools
Kate Stringer
January 30, 2018
New South Carolina Study of Public Montessori Schools Shows Majority Low-Income Students Outperforming Peers
Kate Stringer
January 28, 2018
School Choice of the Future: Jeb Bush Says Education Savings Accounts Can Empower Parents To Customize Their Children’s Schooling
Kate Stringer
January 26, 2018
Oakland Board Gives Itself a Raise After Cutting Millions From Schools
Kate Stringer
January 11, 2018
How One Program Is Closing the College Persistence Gap for Needy Students With Financial Aid, Social Supports, and a Powerful Data Tracker
Kate Stringer
January 2, 2018
From Washing Machines to the ‘Corridor of Shame,’ the 13 Most Innovative Schools We Visited This Year
Kate Stringer
December 19, 2017
74 Interview: Allan Golston on Network Schools, Scaling Solutions to Inequity, and Why Curriculum Matters — and Luck Shouldn’t
Kate Stringer
December 17, 2017
Only Half of Students Think What They’re Learning in School Is Relevant to the Real World, Survey Says
Kate Stringer
December 11, 2017
74 Interview: Richard Culatta on How to Do Personalized Learning Well — and Why It Could Be the Key to Narrowing a School’s Equity Gap
Kate Stringer
December 6, 2017
Most Pregnant and Parenting Students Don’t Graduate. Here’s How One Rhode Island High School Is Helping Its Teens Beat the Odds
Kate Stringer
December 5, 2017
3 Ways Schools Can Use Federal Funding Through ESSA to Support Social-Emotional Learning
Kate Stringer
December 5, 2017
Mentoring Program Posts 81% College Persistence Rate With Focus on In-Person Coaching, Affordability, New Study Finds
Kate Stringer
November 15, 2017
States Make Surprising Progress Toward Growth in ESSA Accountability Plans, New Fordham Report Finds
Kate Stringer
November 14, 2017
15 Ways Taylor Swift’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy’s Most Pressing Issues
Kate Stringer & Laura Fay
November 10, 2017
25 Years, 1 Million Kids. How Expeditionary Deeper Learning Engages Students Through Inquiry, Discovery & Creativity
Kate Stringer
November 8, 2017
There’s Lots of Social-Emotional Support for Students, but Not for Teachers. Here Are Some Programs Looking to Change That
Kate Stringer
November 7, 2017
Principals Support Social-Emotional Learning, but 83% Don’t Know How to Measure Its Success, Study Finds
Kate Stringer
November 7, 2017
Back at School After Wildfires, California Educators Address Student and Teacher Trauma
Kate Stringer
October 25, 2017
Bridging College and Profession: Inside the ‘Basta’ Mentoring Program Helping First-Generation Graduates Pursue Their Careers
Kate Stringer
October 24, 2017
Gates Foundation Shifts Education Focus to Network Schools, Innovation, and Special Education Charters
Kate Stringer
October 19, 2017
WATCH LIVE: Bill Gates to Discuss Education Equity During Council of the Great City Schools Conference
Kate Stringer
October 18, 2017
Science Is for Boy Scouts; Critical Thinking Is for Girl Scouts. Here’s How They Differ in Their Gendered Messaging to Children
Kate Stringer
October 16, 2017
DeVos Visits Washington State, Where the Charter School Sector Has Expanded Even as Lawsuit Threatens to Shut It Down
Kate Stringer
October 12, 2017
One-Third of Girls With 4.0 GPAs Don’t Think They’re Smart — and Other Findings From National School Survey
Kate Stringer
October 10, 2017
States Skip Social-Emotional Learning for Accountability Under ESSA — but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not in Their Plans
Kate Stringer
October 9, 2017
How One of Indianapolis’s ‘Innovation School’ Principals Is Using Language of Love — and Spanish Immersion Program — to Achieve Dramatic Student Growth
Kate Stringer
October 8, 2017
As Tutoring Market Grows, New App Clark Steps In to Help Teachers Manage Their Student Clientele
Kate Stringer
October 2, 2017
Ghost Trees & ‘The Big One’: How to Teach Students About Major 9.0 Earthquake Due Right in Their Own Backyard
Kate Stringer
September 28, 2017
Social-Emotional Learning Helps Students Succeed, but by How Much? New Report Looks for Answers
Kate Stringer
September 26, 2017
When You Learn ‘Physics First’: How 2 STEM Teachers Led Their All-Girl Engineering Team From Worst to First in Aerospace Contest
Kate Stringer
September 19, 2017
Yes, Undocumented Students Have Rights Under the U.S. Constitution — but New Poll Shows That Most Americans Don’t Know That
Kate Stringer
September 14, 2017
Texting, Personalization, Free Computers for All: New Report Tells Where Ed Tech Works — and Fails
Kate Stringer
September 13, 2017
10% of All Public School Students Missing Classes as 6 States Cope With Irma
Kate Stringer
September 11, 2017
A’s, B’s, and Condoms: New Study of High School Students Links Good Grades With Healthier Choices
Kate Stringer
September 8, 2017
74 Interview: How Retired Football Player Wade Smith Has Dedicated His Post-NFL Career to Tackling Bullying and Illiteracy
Kate Stringer
September 7, 2017
Great CTE-xpectations: Inside Oregon’s New $170 Million Bet for Boosting One of the Worst Graduation Rates in the Nation
Kate Stringer
September 6, 2017
In 1 of the Largest Districts Most Needing A/C, 1,000 Hawaii Classrooms Get Cooled Off This School Year
Kate Stringer
September 6, 2017
19 Years Later …Teachers Are Still Bringing Harry Potter Magic to Their Classrooms for the Start of the School Year
Kate Stringer
August 29, 2017
When It Comes to College, Only Half of America’s High Schoolers Say They Feel Prepared, Survey Finds
Kate Stringer
August 29, 2017
ESSA Reviewers Call Out California’s Plan as Weak on Identifying Low-Performing Students and Schools
Kate Stringer
August 28, 2017
Who Says 6-Year-Olds Can’t Program Robots? Not This Pennsylvania First-Grade Teacher
Kate Stringer
August 27, 2017
The 74 Interview: Alexis Morin on Students For Education Reform, Youth Power & Achieving Educational Justice
Kate Stringer
August 23, 2017
Success Academy Students Outscore Every District in New York State on Annual English and Math Exams
Kate Stringer
August 23, 2017
Bullying on the Rise in NYC Middle and High Schools, NYDN Analysis of Student Surveys Shows
Kate Stringer
August 21, 2017
A D.C. Breakthrough as Traditional Public School Students Post Gains on PARCC Test, Outperforming Charters
Kate Stringer
August 20, 2017
New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year
Kate Stringer
August 15, 2017
Fewer Than 1 in 3 Americans Support Kids Opting out of Tests; About Half Confused on What ‘Opt Out’ Means
Kate Stringer
August 13, 2017
300 Tutors, Working With Students 2 Hours a Day: One School Network’s Investment in Personalized Learning
Kate Stringer
August 9, 2017
Driven to Serve: Maine Recruits Veterans for Free Training to Ease Shortage of School Bus Drivers
Kate Stringer
August 8, 2017
When It Comes to College, Only Half of America’s High Schoolers Say They Feel Prepared, Survey Finds
Kate Stringer
August 7, 2017
New Jersey Gives Newark Green Light to Resume Local Control of Schools After 20 Years in Receivership
Kate Stringer
August 2, 2017
90% of Parents Think Their Kids Are on Track in Math & Reading. The Real Number? Just 1 in 3, Survey Shows
Kate Stringer
August 1, 2017
New Tools to Fight ‘Summer Melt’: How One University’s Texting Campaign Is Keeping Incoming Freshmen on Track
Kate Stringer
July 31, 2017
8 Important Numbers From New Report on Children’s Well-Being: Progress on Poverty & Hunger, Rise in Depression
Kate Stringer
July 27, 2017
New Rankings: Most & Least Educated Cities — a Tale of Two Californias
Kate Stringer
July 25, 2017
Editorial Board Lauds Louisiana Superintendent John White — as State Forces Him to Work Month to Month
Kate Stringer
July 24, 2017
Weingarten Speech Tying School Choice to Racism Sets Off Firestorm
Kate Stringer
July 21, 2017
A Phoenix Breakthrough: How 3 Massachusetts High Schools Are Helping Dropouts Become College-Bound Grads
Kate Stringer
July 19, 2017
The $1,488 Back-to-School Bill: Backpack Index Tracks Rising Costs of Supplies, Fees for Band, Sports, Trips
Kate Stringer
July 13, 2017
How a Retired Teacher Won a Seat in Oklahoma’s Legislature — and Flipped a Red District Blue in the Process
Kate Stringer
July 12, 2017
Social-Emotional Learning Boosts Students’ Scores, Graduation Rates, Even Earnings, New Study Finds
Kate Stringer
July 12, 2017
NYC Mayoral Control Deal Includes Some Big Wins for City Charter Schools in Ongoing Fight for Space
Kate Stringer
July 7, 2017
With Digital Video Tools, Move This World Brings Social-Emotional Learning to a Wide School Audience
Kate Stringer
July 5, 2017
N.M. Ed Chief Hanna Skandera Leaves Office and Shares Tenure Highlights; Still ‘a Lot of Work to Do’
Kate Stringer
June 19, 2017
Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Now, 100 Years Later, Wildflower Is Reinventing the Model
Kate Stringer
June 18, 2017
Hanna Skandera Steps Down as New Mexico Education Secretary, ‘Finishing Strong’ After Lifting Student Scores
Kate Stringer
June 8, 2017
Nevada’s ESA Program Dies in Late-Night Legislative Deal That Gives $20 Million for Tax Credit Scholarships Instead
Kate Stringer
June 5, 2017
Who Let the Dogs in the Yearbook? Why More Schools Are Honoring Canine Companions as Invaluable Classmates
Kate Stringer
June 4, 2017
Reading Partners Boosts Literacy Among Poor Kids Nationwide. Trump’s Budget Cuts Could End All That
Kate Stringer
May 31, 2017
#FosterMyEducation: New Campaign Urges States to Embrace ESSA Rules Protecting Foster Kids
Kate Stringer
May 30, 2017
How to Keep Oklahoma’s Low-Paid Teachers From Leaving the State? Give Them a 4-Day Work Week
Kate Stringer
May 30, 2017
Bullying Hurts Both Victims & Bullies Long After They’re Out of School: 3 Things to Know From New Studies
Kate Stringer
May 25, 2017
The Boys Wouldn’t Listen, So 9-Year-Old Girl Started Her Own Robotics Team — and Won Big
Kate Stringer
May 23, 2017
1 in 5 Washington State HS Students Considered Suicide, 9% Attempted It, Shocking New Report Finds
Kate Stringer
May 22, 2017
74 Interview: Harvard’s Fernando Reimers on the Crucial Need to Teach Kids to Be Strong Global Citizens
Kate Stringer
May 21, 2017
BASIS: Inside the Acclaimed School Network That’s Blended Together the World’s Best Education Practices
Kate Stringer
May 17, 2017
At 13, This Student Started a Free Math Tutor Program. Then He Delayed College to Expand Nationally
Kate Stringer
May 7, 2017
Meet the 3 New Education Advocates to Be Inducted Into the National Charter School Hall of Fame
Kate Stringer
May 3, 2017
Time Magazine Honors Sandra Day O’Connor as Pioneer on Supreme Court — and in Civics Education
Kate Stringer
May 2, 2017
3 States Cite School Climate Surveys in Their ESSA Plans. Why Don’t Others Use Culture for Accountability?
Kate Stringer
April 30, 2017
U.S. News Ranks America’s Top Public High Schools — and for the First Time, Charters Dominate Top 10
Kate Stringer
April 25, 2017
Meet the 9 New Staffers Tapped to Fill Key Roles in Secretary Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education
Kate Stringer
April 13, 2017
AltSchool Hires 5 New Education and Technology Execs, Looks to Scale Learning Platform to Millions of Kids
Kate Stringer
April 6, 2017
Nevada’s Governor Rushes to Save Education Savings Accounts. But Will Program Survive Legislature’s Democrats?
Kate Stringer
March 30, 2017
Baltimore’s ‘Happy Teacher Revolution’: Educators Band Together to Help Each Other Thrive in the Classroom
Kate Stringer
March 20, 2017
150,000 Stories & Counting: Inside Washington, D.C.’s Campaign to Give Each Kid a New Book Every Month
Kate Stringer
March 15, 2017
Can You Spell Better Than This 5-Year-Old? Meet Edith, the Youngest-Ever Spelling Bee Contender
Kate Stringer
March 12, 2017
Denisha Merriweather, in Her Own Words: The Private School Scholarship That Changed My Life
Steve Snyder & Kate Stringer
February 28, 2017
Meet the Students Taking the Government to School, and to Court, in Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit
Kate Stringer
February 27, 2017
The Subtle Science of Sesame Street: What You Never Realized Grover Is Teaching Your Family
Kate Stringer
February 26, 2017
Atlanta School Turnaround Gets a Big Boost With $2.1 Million Grant From Walton Family Foundation
Kate Stringer
February 24, 2017
How YouCAN Is Growing Grassroots Education Leaders to Improve Their Schools and Communities
Kate Stringer
February 23, 2017
‘A Huge Win’: Washington State Charter School Supporters Celebrate Major Courtroom Victory
Kate Stringer
February 20, 2017
How’s Your School Culture? ESSA Says It’s Important, but Only 1 in 3 Students Nationwide Think It’s Good
Kate Stringer
February 16, 2017
How Little Kids Rock Is Bringing Music Back to School
Kate Stringer
February 9, 2017
Friedrichs 2.0: New Lawsuit By 8 Teachers Challenges Mandatory Dues Paid to California Union
Kate Stringer
February 8, 2017
74 Interview: New Mexico Education Secretary Hanna Skandera on How Her State Is Turning Around Schools
Kate Stringer
February 8, 2017
6 Ways High Schools Are Blazing a New Path to Higher Education, From the 2017 School Counselor of the Year
Kate Stringer
February 2, 2017
Nevada’s Looming Political Showdown Over America’s Largest Education Savings Account Program
Kate Stringer
January 29, 2017
Professional Development Leader Learning Forward, NCTAF Merge to Promote Better Teacher Training
Kate Stringer
January 23, 2017
What a Big Personalized-Learning Study Showed About 5 Ways to Rethink Teaching and Learning
Kate Stringer
January 17, 2017
Poll — 75% of Millennials Support School Choice; Majority of Americans Like Trump’s $20 Billion Plan
Kate Stringer
January 12, 2017
Why These Two Tulsa Educators Returned Home to Save the Latino Students Too Often Left Behind
Kate Stringer
January 9, 2017
The 7 Most Memorable Educators We Met in 2016
Kate Stringer
December 20, 2016
National School Choice Week to Host Record 20,000 Events From Jan. 22-28
Kate Stringer
December 20, 2016
Survey Results: Private, Charter School Parents More Satisfied Than District School Parents
Kate Stringer
December 13, 2016
Washington State Charter School Supporters, Opponents Look Ahead to a Critical Year
Kate Stringer
December 13, 2016
Finding Success in Failure: STEM Educators Say Student Risk-Taking Is Key to Real-World Learning
Kate Stringer
December 12, 2016
Trump Picks His Education Secretary: The First 6 Things to Know About Betsy DeVos
Kate Stringer
November 23, 2016
What a Novel Idea: Kids Take Up Challenge to Pen 50,000 Words During Nat’l Novel Writing Month
Kate Stringer
November 17, 2016
California Brings Back Bilingual Education
Kate Stringer
November 9, 2016
Clinton Says New Bullying Plan Will Remedy Harm of Trump Campaign
Kate Stringer
October 27, 2016
‘Vice News Tonight’ Report on 4-Day School Week Brings District’s Struggle to Young HBO Audience
Kate Stringer
October 27, 2016
Thousands of NYC Teachers Ask De Blasio to Expand Charter Schools
Kate Stringer
October 20, 2016
80,000 Kids Just Replied to a Survey About Bullying. Here’s What Surprised Their Educators Most
Kate Stringer
October 16, 2016
Building a Stronger Social Community at School: Forget Facebook, Let the Students Run the Snapchat
Kate Stringer
October 3, 2016
Thousands Call for More Charter Schools at Brooklyn Rally
Kate Stringer
September 28, 2016
Here Are Students’ Candid Responses to Their U.S. Education
Kate Stringer
September 28, 2016
Florida Families Say They Are Ready for Supreme Court Challenge to Tax Scholarship Program
Kate Stringer
September 19, 2016
Whose Civil Rights? Florida Parents, Pastors Fear NAACP-FEA Will Appeal Scholarship Ruling
Kate Stringer
September 13, 2016
‘We Deserve to Have a Choice’: Families Intervene in New Washington Lawsuit Over Charter Schools
Kate Stringer
September 6, 2016
‘Summer Melt’: Why Are Hundreds of Thousands of Freshmen Dropping Out of College Before Day One?
Kate Stringer
September 5, 2016
Zika in the Classroom? How Students in 9 Florida Schools Are Confronting a Public Health Emergency
Kate Stringer
August 23, 2016
California’s Sex Education Breakthrough: The Fight to Get Kids Information About Condoms — and Consent
Kate Stringer
August 16, 2016
Poll: More Than Half of New Yorkers Say They Would Prefer to Send Their Kid to a Public Charter School
Kate Stringer
August 4, 2016
Saved: How WA Parents, Students, Advocates and Educators Rescued Their Charter Schools
Kate Stringer
April 4, 2016
Thinking Like a Computer: Excel Charter School Teaches Kids to Break Down Complex Problems
Kate Stringer
March 17, 2016
In Washington State, Both Senate and House Approve Last-Minute Bill to Save Charter Schools
Kate Stringer
March 10, 2016
Facing a Thursday Deadline, and Lawmakers’ Silence, WA Students Fight to Keep Their Schools Alive
Kate Stringer
March 4, 2016
Washington House Fails to Act on Charter Bill as Dems Search for Alternative and Deadline Looms
Kate Stringer
February 25, 2016
WA Lawmakers Debate Accountability with Days Left to Save Charter Schools
Kate Stringer
February 22, 2016
Twenty Days and Counting: Bill to Save WA Charter Schools Moves to House as Session Nears End
Kate Stringer
February 17, 2016
Facing Closure, Washington State Charter Schools Release Data Showing Students Excelling
Kate Stringer
February 10, 2016
Washington State Senate Passes Charter Bill, Legislative Battle Advances to House
Kate Stringer
January 20, 2016
Legislative Battle Begins to Save Washington State Charters — Who Will Prevail?
Kate Stringer
January 13, 2016
Rival Bills to Save Washington Charters Hinge on Who Will Run Them
Kate Stringer
January 11, 2016
The Fate of Their Schools Uncertain, Washington Charter Families Weather an Anxious Holiday
Kate Stringer
January 4, 2016
Washington State Charters Find Temporary Shelter to Keep Schools Open in 2016
Kate Stringer
December 10, 2015
An Oregon Ed Reporter Reflects on a Massacre: I Used to Cover Umpqua Community College
Kate Stringer
October 5, 2015