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Social-Emotional Learning

Self-Regulation by Any Other Name: New Harvard Project Connects the Similar and Disparate Words of Social-Emotional Learning

Social-Emotional Learning

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

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

December 8, 2019

Social-Emotional Learning

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

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’

October 7, 2019

Social-Emotional Learning

What’s an Emotion Scientist? Inside the New Concept Shaping Social-Emotional Learning

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

For State Leaders Who Want Personalized Learning in Schools, New Report Shares 5 Ways to Support Teachers Through Policy

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

The Mastery Transcript Consortium Has Been Developing a Gradeless Transcript for College Admissions. This Fall It Gets Its First Test

Social-Emotional Learning

Most Educators Assess Their Students’ Social-Emotional Learning, but Few See the Whole Picture. Here’s What They’re Missing

Social-Emotional Learning

SEL in the House: Democrats Approve Millions in Landmark Federal Funding for Social-Emotional Learning in Bill That Now Faces Test in Senate

The Mentor: One Year, Two Teachers and a Quest in the Bronx to Empower Educators and Students to Think for Themselves

These Kid Reporters at Scholastic Interview National and Global Leaders. Answering Their Questions This Week: Education Activist Ziauddin Yousafzai, Father of Malala

Failure Is an Option: For Students at Iowa Big, Tests Come First, Learning From Experiences Follows

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74 Interview: Curriculum Designer Christina Riley Teaches Students Compassion and Empathy Alongside Literacy. Here’s How She Does It

Students Around the World Practice Mindfulness Together as Part of ClassDojo and Yale ‘Mindful Moment’ Initiative

In These Rural Schools, the Computer Science Teachers Are Volunteers Who Work for Microsoft, Amazon and Google. That’s Opening Doors for Their Students

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

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

The Big Picture

CTE Classes Are Popular, but Only 25% of Students Take Courses That Could Lead to the Nation’s Biggest Industries, New Study Finds

1 in 4 Parents Would Pay Off College Admissions Officers If They Had the Money, New Poll Finds

At Seattle’s Experimental, Experiential Downtown School, Students Learn How to Learn With an Entire City as Their Laboratory

Millennials Are More Likely to Support School Choice — a SXSWedu Panel Reveals Why

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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

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

How 8 Large California Districts Are Using Data to Decode Social-Emotional Learning — and Predict Students’ Academic Success

South By Southwest Education: 19 Sessions & Speakers Worth Seeing at SXSW 2019

Steve Snyder & Kate Stringer

February 27, 2019

Every Student Succeeds Act

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

February 20, 2019

The Big Picture

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?

February 20, 2019

Exclusive: Student Data Needs Protecting, New Report Says. Hiring a Chief Privacy Officer Can Help Schools and Districts Do Just That

January 30, 2019

Not All Student Growth Is Created Equal — How 48 States Are Using It Differently in Their Report Cards

January 23, 2019

From Redesigned Professional Learning to Teacher Leadership, 6 Strategies to Support Teachers of Competency-Based Education

January 22, 2019

The Big Picture

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

January 16, 2019

200 Students, Parents & Educators Spent Two Years Thinking About How to Support the Whole Child. Here Are 6 Things They Found

January 15, 2019

Exclusive: New National Initiative Pathway 2 Tomorrow Bestows $100,000 Innovation Award to Two Groups Promoting Student Voice in Iowa & Kentucky

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

January 2, 2019

The Big Picture

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

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

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

November 27, 2018

Not Your Average Student Council: How Chicago’s Student Voice Committees Are Giving Kids a Real Say in Their Schools

November 12, 2018

EDlection 2018: Republican Sherri Ybarra Re-elected as Idaho School Superintendent in Close Race

November 7, 2018

EDlection2018: Republican Brad Little Projected Winner of Idaho Governor Race, With Plans to Support Vocational Training and Early Education

November 7, 2018

EDlection 2018: Republican Kim Reynolds Becomes Iowa’s First Female Elected Governor, After Term Addressing Mental Health, STEM

November 7, 2018

EDlection 2018: Washington State Legislature Increases Blue Majority, Dems Hope to Pass Capital Gains Taxes for Education

November 7, 2018

EDlection 2018: Oklahomans Strike Down Measure to Expand How Property Taxes Can Fund Schools

November 7, 2018

EDlection2018: Democrat Laura Kelly Projected to Win Kansas Governor Race, With Promise to Fully Fund Schools

November 6, 2018

EDlection 2018: Maryland Incumbent Gov. Larry Hogan Projected Winner, Will Help Lead State’s New Direction in Education

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

October 30, 2018

This Time, Washington State Supreme Court Upholds Charter School Law

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

October 24, 2018

Personalized Learning

Summit Is Spinning Off Its Popular Personalized Learning Platform, Creating New Nonprofit to Take the Helm

October 24, 2018

When Families and Schools Work Together, Students Do Better. New Report Has 5 Ways of Engaging Parents in Their Kids’ Education

October 23, 2018

The Big Picture

The Kids Are All Right: Teens Say Social Media Makes Them Feel Better About Themselves, Less Lonely & Less Depressed

October 10, 2018

Private School Choice Enrolls a Half-Million Kids, & Growing; Florida, Wisconsin Have Top-Rated Programs, New Report Finds

October 3, 2018

The Big Picture

‘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

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

September 19, 2018

When Learning Social Skills, Special Ed Students Do Best When Grouped by Social Ability, Not by Disability, Study Finds

September 12, 2018

Snapshot: How Many Students in the Public School System Are Homeless?

September 5, 2018

The Big Picture

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

August 30, 2018

The Big Picture

New Poll: For First Time Ever, a Majority of American Parents Do Not Want Their Children to Become Public School Teachers

August 27, 2018

WATCH: Teachers Go Back to School With Harry Potter — and It Works Magic on Their Students!

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

August 21, 2018

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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

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?

An EDlection Showdown in Maryland: Could a ‘Blue Wave’ Unseat America’s Second-Most Popular Governor — and Reshape the State’s Education Priorities?

Every Student Succeeds Act

The 74 Interview: Harvard’s Karen Mapp on ESSA, Family Engagement, and How Schools and Communities Can Partner to Help Kids Succeed

New Hi-Tech Certification Program From International Technology Group Puts the Emphasis on Teachers and Collaboration, Rather Than Devices or Software

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

Smarter Crowdfunding for Classrooms: When Teachers Fundraise Technology, Their Districts Can’t Always Support It. DonorsChoose Now Has a Fix for That

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

The Big Picture

How Many Foster Care Students Are There in the United States?

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

The Big Picture

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

What Is Social-Emotional Learning and How Does It Affect Kids?

Janus v. AFSCME

Janus Ruling Reflects Public Opinion Against Mandatory Union Fees, New Poll Finds

Personalized Learning

New Research: Despite Great Enthusiasm for Personalized Learning, Teachers Say Attempts to Innovate Are Often Stymied by School District Bureaucracy

Janus v. AFSCME

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

Packed Oklahoma Gubernatorial Race Fueled by Political Turmoil of Teacher Walkouts, Diverging Views on Education Priorities

Laxalt & Sisolak Win Nevada Primary for Governor, Setting Up Race That Will Focus on Dismal Education Rankings, Funding of Education Savings Accounts & Teacher Salaries

The Big Picture

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

How a North Carolina District Is Using ESSA’s Support for Family Engagement to Give Students 120,000 Books to Help Combat Summer Slide

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

Driven by Common Core Rigor, States Are Raising Proficiency Bar for Reading and Math, New Report Finds

Are Charter Schools Legal in Washington State? As Sector Continues to Grow, Court Will Take Up the Question — Again

Under Shadow of Online Charter School Scandal, Mike DeWine & Richard Cordray Win Primaries in Race for Ohio Governor

Exclusive: 20 Bipartisan ‘Charter Champions’ Honored by National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Sen. Orrin Hatch Receives ‘Lifetime Achievement’ Award

Personalized Learning

$14 Million From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Will Nearly Double Personalized Learning in Chicago Public Schools

Can a Few Simple Letters Home Reduce Chronic Absenteeism? New Research Shows They Can

Awkward in Wisconsin: Assistant Supe Tweets Personalized Learning ‘Is Like Teenage Sex’

Personalized Learning

Sketchbooks. Makerspaces. Student Startups. Inside America’s Largest Personalized Learning Experiment, How One Rhode Island ‘Lighthouse Laboratory’ Is Reimagining School

A Cyberattack, a Cut Cable & a Software Glitch: Why Tennessee Is Discounting Student Test Scores — and Wants the Feds to Do the Same

Do Pre-K Teachers Need a Bachelor’s Degree? National Initiative Seeks Consensus on Decades-Old Debate

3 Ways Parents Can Support Their Children’s Math Development — and Soothe Their Own Math Anxiety

Idaho Governor Hopefuls Make Education a Campaign Priority In the ‘Scroll-Down State’; Differ on Key Elements of Early Education, School Choice, Guns

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

New Mexico Tests True Power of ESSA by Rejecting Turnaround Plans for the 4 Worst Schools in the State

Most KIPP Grads Report a Sense Of Belonging and Engagement In College, New Report Finds

The Big Picture

Toilet Paper, Glow Sticks, and Multiplication: Study Shows How One Free After-School Club Can Help Reduce Math Anxiety

Education's Female Trailblazers

Women’s History Month: These Female Trailblazers Changed American Education For You and Your Kids. Do You Know Their Names?

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

Education's Female Trailblazers

How Catholic Nuns Brought Education & Female Empowerment to Millions of Children, Women & Immigrants by Teaching Students on the Fringes

Oakland’s New Superintendent Is a Homegrown Leader for a District in Financial Turmoil

Education's Female Trailblazers

Meet Lucy Wheelock: How an Early-20th-Century Educator Saved Kindergarten for Generations of U.S. Kids — & Founded Her Own College

New Analysis of Personalized Learning Programs Shows Reading Gains for Chicago Students

Gallup Poll: Most Educators Don’t Want to Be Armed With Guns

‘Boo Guns!’ — New Jersey Parents Sign Their Young Children Out of School for a Teachable Moment In Civic Engagement

Rise of Fake News Gives New Urgency to Media Literacy Education in America’s Schools

Education's Female Trailblazers

Meet Fanny Jackson Coppin: Born Into Slavery, She Graduated From College, Became a Teacher — and Lifted Up Generations of Black Americans

Why Some Colleges Are Reassuring High Schoolers: If You Walk Out Wednesday, Don’t Worry — Peaceful Protests Won’t Hurt Admissions

2018 Gun Violence at America's Schools

1 Teen Dead, Another Injured After Birmingham, Alabama, High School Shooting; at Least 27 Killed & 46 Injured at Schools in 2018

Education's Female Trailblazers

Meet Ella Flagg Young, First Female School Superintendent of a Major U.S. City — and Ed Reform’s Forgotten Thought Leader

Harvard-MIT Personalized Learning Program to Help Early Readers Gets $30M From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Texas Nonprofit Gets $790K Grant for Efforts to Boost Diversity in the Teaching Workforce

Education's Female Trailblazers

No One Would Hire Her. So She Wrote Title IX and Changed History for Millions of Women. Meet Education Trailblazer Patsy Mink

Oscar Preview: 3 Ways Education Could Take Center Stage at Sunday Night’s Academy Awards

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

February 28, 2018

Oscar-Nominated Documentary Tells of Texas Math Teacher’s Violent Encounter With Police — and Her Struggle to Heal

February 27, 2018

DeKalb Elementary: Filmmaker Behind the Oscar-Nominated Short Talks About the Georgia School Shooting That Wasn’t

February 26, 2018

Wildflower to Bring Montessori Microschools to Indianapolis After Winning Charter Design Challenge From The Mind Trust

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

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

February 13, 2018

Personalized Learning

Analysis of Personalized Learning Programs in Chicago Shows That Strong Teacher Leaders, Not Technology, Key for Financial Sustainability

February 13, 2018

Social-Emotional Learning

Learning From Olympians: How Classroom Champions Is Pairing Athletes With Schools to Offer Unique Lessons on Grit, Goals, and Perseverance

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

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

February 6, 2018

The Path of Opportunity, the Path of Despair: John King offers Urban Alliance a Tale of Two High Schools

February 1, 2018

In America’s Smallest State, a Proposal for a Colossal Surge in Public Dollars for Private Schools

January 30, 2018

The Big Picture

New South Carolina Study of Public Montessori Schools Shows Majority Low-Income Students Outperforming Peers

January 28, 2018

2018 School Choice Week

School Choice of the Future: Jeb Bush Says Education Savings Accounts Can Empower Parents To Customize Their Children’s Schooling

January 26, 2018

Oakland Board Gives Itself a Raise After Cutting Millions From Schools

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

January 2, 2018

From Washing Machines to the ‘Corridor of Shame,’ the 13 Most Innovative Schools We Visited This Year

December 19, 2017

The 74 Interview

74 Interview: Allan Golston on Network Schools, Scaling Solutions to Inequity, and Why Curriculum Matters — and Luck Shouldn’t

December 17, 2017

Only Half of Students Think What They’re Learning in School Is Relevant to the Real World, Survey Says

December 11, 2017

Personalized Learning

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

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

December 5, 2017

Every Student Succeeds Act

3 Ways Schools Can Use Federal Funding Through ESSA to Support Social-Emotional Learning

December 5, 2017

Mentoring Program Posts 81% College Persistence Rate With Focus on In-Person Coaching, Affordability, New Study Finds

November 15, 2017

States Make Surprising Progress Toward Growth in ESSA Accountability Plans, New Fordham Report Finds

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

November 8, 2017

Social-Emotional Learning

There’s Lots of Social-Emotional Support for Students, but Not for Teachers. Here Are Some Programs Looking to Change That

November 7, 2017

Social-Emotional Learning

Principals Support Social-Emotional Learning, but 83% Don’t Know How to Measure Its Success, Study Finds

November 7, 2017

Social-Emotional Learning

Back at School After Wildfires, California Educators Address Student and Teacher Trauma

October 25, 2017

Bridging College and Profession: Inside the ‘Basta’ Mentoring Program Helping First-Generation Graduates Pursue Their Careers

October 24, 2017

Gates Foundation Shifts Education Focus to Network Schools, Innovation, and Special Education Charters

October 19, 2017

WATCH LIVE: Bill Gates to Discuss Education Equity During Council of the Great City Schools Conference

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

October 16, 2017

DeVos Visits Washington State, Where the Charter School Sector Has Expanded Even as Lawsuit Threatens to Shut It Down

October 12, 2017

The Big Picture

One-Third of Girls With 4.0 GPAs Don’t Think They’re Smart — and Other Findings From National School Survey

October 10, 2017

Social-Emotional Learning

States Skip Social-Emotional Learning for Accountability Under ESSA — but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not in Their Plans

October 9, 2017

Reinventing America's School – Indianapolis

How One of Indianapolis’s ‘Innovation School’ Principals Is Using Language of Love — and Spanish Immersion Program — to Achieve Dramatic Student Growth

October 8, 2017

As Tutoring Market Grows, New App Clark Steps In to Help Teachers Manage Their Student Clientele

October 2, 2017

Ghost Trees & ‘The Big One’: How to Teach Students About Major 9.0 Earthquake Due Right in Their Own Backyard

September 28, 2017

Social-Emotional Learning

Social-Emotional Learning Helps Students Succeed, but by How Much? New Report Looks for Answers

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

September 19, 2017

Yes, Undocumented Students Have Rights Under the U.S. Constitution — but New Poll Shows That Most Americans Don’t Know That

September 14, 2017

Texting, Personalization, Free Computers for All: New Report Tells Where Ed Tech Works — and Fails

September 13, 2017

10% of All Public School Students Missing Classes as 6 States Cope With Irma

September 11, 2017

A’s, B’s, and Condoms: New Study of High School Students Links Good Grades With Healthier Choices

September 8, 2017

The 74 Interview

74 Interview: How Retired Football Player Wade Smith Has Dedicated His Post-NFL Career to Tackling Bullying and Illiteracy

September 7, 2017

Great CTE-xpectations: Inside Oregon’s New $170 Million Bet for Boosting One of the Worst Graduation Rates in the Nation

September 6, 2017

In 1 of the Largest Districts Most Needing A/C, 1,000 Hawaii Classrooms Get Cooled Off This School Year

September 6, 2017

19 Years Later …Teachers Are Still Bringing Harry Potter Magic to Their Classrooms for the Start of the School Year

August 29, 2017

The Big Picture

When It Comes to College, Only Half of America’s High Schoolers Say They Feel Prepared, Survey Finds

August 29, 2017

ESSA Reviewers Call Out California’s Plan as Weak on Identifying Low-Performing Students and Schools

August 28, 2017

Who Says 6-Year-Olds Can’t Program Robots? Not This Pennsylvania First-Grade Teacher

August 27, 2017

The 74 Interview

The 74 Interview: Alexis Morin on Students For Education Reform, Youth Power & Achieving Educational Justice

August 23, 2017

Success Academy Students Outscore Every District in New York State on Annual English and Math Exams

August 23, 2017

Bullying on the Rise in NYC Middle and High Schools, NYDN Analysis of Student Surveys Shows

August 21, 2017

A D.C. Breakthrough as Traditional Public School Students Post Gains on PARCC Test, Outperforming Charters

August 20, 2017

New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year

August 15, 2017

Fewer Than 1 in 3 Americans Support Kids Opting out of Tests; About Half Confused on What ‘Opt Out’ Means

August 13, 2017

Personalized Learning

300 Tutors, Working With Students 2 Hours a Day: One School Network’s Investment in Personalized Learning

Driven to Serve: Maine Recruits Veterans for Free Training to Ease Shortage of School Bus Drivers

When It Comes to College, Only Half of America’s High Schoolers Say They Feel Prepared, Survey Finds

New Jersey Gives Newark Green Light to Resume Local Control of Schools After 20 Years in Receivership

90% of Parents Think Their Kids Are on Track in Math & Reading. The Real Number? Just 1 in 3, Survey Shows

New Tools to Fight ‘Summer Melt’: How One University’s Texting Campaign Is Keeping Incoming Freshmen on Track

8 Important Numbers From New Report on Children’s Well-Being: Progress on Poverty & Hunger, Rise in Depression

New Rankings: Most & Least Educated Cities — a Tale of Two Californias

Editorial Board Lauds Louisiana Superintendent John White — as State Forces Him to Work Month to Month

Weingarten Speech Tying School Choice to Racism Sets Off Firestorm

A Phoenix Breakthrough: How 3 Massachusetts High Schools Are Helping Dropouts Become College-Bound Grads

The $1,488 Back-to-School Bill: Backpack Index Tracks Rising Costs of Supplies, Fees for Band, Sports, Trips

How a Retired Teacher Won a Seat in Oklahoma’s Legislature — and Flipped a Red District Blue in the Process

Social-Emotional Learning

Social-Emotional Learning Boosts Students’ Scores, Graduation Rates, Even Earnings, New Study Finds

NYC Mayoral Control Deal Includes Some Big Wins for City Charter Schools in Ongoing Fight for Space

Social-Emotional Learning

With Digital Video Tools, Move This World Brings Social-Emotional Learning to a Wide School Audience

N.M. Ed Chief Hanna Skandera Leaves Office and Shares Tenure Highlights; Still ‘a Lot of Work to Do’

Personalized Learning

Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Now, 100 Years Later, Wildflower Is Reinventing the Model

Hanna Skandera Steps Down as New Mexico Education Secretary, ‘Finishing Strong’ After Lifting Student Scores

Nevada’s ESA Program Dies in Late-Night Legislative Deal That Gives $20 Million for Tax Credit Scholarships Instead

Who Let the Dogs in the Yearbook? Why More Schools Are Honoring Canine Companions as Invaluable Classmates

Reading Partners Boosts Literacy Among Poor Kids Nationwide. Trump’s Budget Cuts Could End All That

#FosterMyEducation: New Campaign Urges States to Embrace ESSA Rules Protecting Foster Kids

How to Keep Oklahoma’s Low-Paid Teachers From Leaving the State? Give Them a 4-Day Work Week

Bullying Hurts Both Victims & Bullies Long After They’re Out of School: 3 Things to Know From New Studies

The Boys Wouldn’t Listen, So 9-Year-Old Girl Started Her Own Robotics Team — and Won Big

1 in 5 Washington State HS Students Considered Suicide, 9% Attempted It, Shocking New Report Finds

The 74 Interview

74 Interview: Harvard’s Fernando Reimers on the Crucial Need to Teach Kids to Be Strong Global Citizens

BASIS: Inside the Acclaimed School Network That’s Blended Together the World’s Best Education Practices

At 13, This Student Started a Free Math Tutor Program. Then He Delayed College to Expand Nationally

2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

Meet the 3 New Education Advocates to Be Inducted Into the National Charter School Hall of Fame

Time Magazine Honors Sandra Day O’Connor as Pioneer on Supreme Court — and in Civics Education

Social-Emotional Learning

3 States Cite School Climate Surveys in Their ESSA Plans. Why Don’t Others Use Culture for Accountability?

U.S. News Ranks America’s Top Public High Schools — and for the First Time, Charters Dominate Top 10

Meet the 9 New Staffers Tapped to Fill Key Roles in Secretary Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education

AltSchool Hires 5 New Education and Technology Execs, Looks to Scale Learning Platform to Millions of Kids

Nevada’s Governor Rushes to Save Education Savings Accounts. But Will Program Survive Legislature’s Democrats?

Social-Emotional Learning

Baltimore’s ‘Happy Teacher Revolution’: Educators Band Together to Help Each Other Thrive in the Classroom

150,000 Stories & Counting: Inside Washington, D.C.’s Campaign to Give Each Kid a New Book Every Month

Can You Spell Better Than This 5-Year-Old? Meet Edith, the Youngest-Ever Spelling Bee Contender

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

February 27, 2017

The Subtle Science of Sesame Street: What You Never Realized Grover Is Teaching Your Family

February 26, 2017

Atlanta School Turnaround Gets a Big Boost With $2.1 Million Grant From Walton Family Foundation

February 24, 2017

How YouCAN Is Growing Grassroots Education Leaders to Improve Their Schools and Communities

February 23, 2017

‘A Huge Win’: Washington State Charter School Supporters Celebrate Major Courtroom Victory

February 20, 2017

Social-Emotional Learning

How’s Your School Culture? ESSA Says It’s Important, but Only 1 in 3 Students Nationwide Think It’s Good

February 16, 2017

How Little Kids Rock Is Bringing Music Back to School

February 9, 2017

Friedrichs 2.0: New Lawsuit By 8 Teachers Challenges Mandatory Dues Paid to California Union

February 8, 2017

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74 Interview: New Mexico Education Secretary Hanna Skandera on How Her State Is Turning Around Schools

February 8, 2017

6 Ways High Schools Are Blazing a New Path to Higher Education, From the 2017 School Counselor of the Year

February 2, 2017

Nevada’s Looming Political Showdown Over America’s Largest Education Savings Account Program

January 29, 2017

Professional Development Leader Learning Forward, NCTAF Merge to Promote Better Teacher Training

January 23, 2017

What a Big Personalized-Learning Study Showed About 5 Ways to Rethink Teaching and Learning

January 17, 2017

2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

Poll — 75% of Millennials Support School Choice; Majority of Americans Like Trump’s $20 Billion Plan

January 12, 2017

2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

Why These Two Tulsa Educators Returned Home to Save the Latino Students Too Often Left Behind

January 9, 2017

The 7 Most Memorable Educators We Met in 2016

December 20, 2016

National School Choice Week to Host Record 20,000 Events From Jan. 22-28

December 20, 2016

Survey Results: Private, Charter School Parents More Satisfied Than District School Parents

December 13, 2016

Washington State Charter School Supporters, Opponents Look Ahead to a Critical Year

December 13, 2016

Finding Success in Failure: STEM Educators Say Student Risk-Taking Is Key to Real-World Learning

December 12, 2016

Trump Picks His Education Secretary: The First 6 Things to Know About Betsy DeVos

November 23, 2016

What a Novel Idea: Kids Take Up Challenge to Pen 50,000 Words During Nat’l Novel Writing Month

November 17, 2016

California Brings Back Bilingual Education

November 9, 2016

Clinton Says New Bullying Plan Will Remedy Harm of Trump Campaign

October 27, 2016

‘Vice News Tonight’ Report on 4-Day School Week Brings District’s Struggle to Young HBO Audience

October 27, 2016

Thousands of NYC Teachers Ask De Blasio to Expand Charter Schools

October 20, 2016

80,000 Kids Just Replied to a Survey About Bullying. Here’s What Surprised Their Educators Most

October 16, 2016

Building a Stronger Social Community at School: Forget Facebook, Let the Students Run the Snapchat

October 3, 2016

Thousands Call for More Charter Schools at Brooklyn Rally

September 28, 2016

Here Are Students’ Candid Responses to Their U.S. Education

September 28, 2016

Florida Families Say They Are Ready for Supreme Court Challenge to Tax Scholarship Program

September 19, 2016

Whose Civil Rights? Florida Parents, Pastors Fear NAACP-FEA Will Appeal Scholarship Ruling

September 13, 2016

‘We Deserve to Have a Choice’: Families Intervene in New Washington Lawsuit Over Charter Schools

September 6, 2016

‘Summer Melt’: Why Are Hundreds of Thousands of Freshmen Dropping Out of College Before Day One?

September 5, 2016

Zika in the Classroom? How Students in 9 Florida Schools Are Confronting a Public Health Emergency

August 23, 2016

California’s Sex Education Breakthrough: The Fight to Get Kids Information About Condoms — and Consent

August 16, 2016

Poll: More Than Half of New Yorkers Say They Would Prefer to Send Their Kid to a Public Charter School

Saved: How WA Parents, Students, Advocates and Educators Rescued Their Charter Schools

Thinking Like a Computer: Excel Charter School Teaches Kids to Break Down Complex Problems

In Washington State, Both Senate and House Approve Last-Minute Bill to Save Charter Schools

Facing a Thursday Deadline, and Lawmakers’ Silence, WA Students Fight to Keep Their Schools Alive

Washington House Fails to Act on Charter Bill as Dems Search for Alternative and Deadline Looms

February 25, 2016

WA Lawmakers Debate Accountability with Days Left to Save Charter Schools

February 22, 2016

Twenty Days and Counting: Bill to Save WA Charter Schools Moves to House as Session Nears End

February 17, 2016

Facing Closure, Washington State Charter Schools Release Data Showing Students Excelling

February 10, 2016

Washington State Senate Passes Charter Bill, Legislative Battle Advances to House

January 20, 2016

Legislative Battle Begins to Save Washington State Charters — Who Will Prevail?

January 13, 2016

Rival Bills to Save Washington Charters Hinge on Who Will Run Them

January 11, 2016

The Fate of Their Schools Uncertain, Washington Charter Families Weather an Anxious Holiday

January 4, 2016

Washington State Charters Find Temporary Shelter to Keep Schools Open in 2016

December 10, 2015

An Oregon Ed Reporter Reflects on a Massacre: I Used to Cover Umpqua Community College

October 5, 2015

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