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In Kentucky Coal Country, Nonprofit Sees Drone Technology as the Future of Education — and Jobs

Naomi Nix

How Arkansas Is Teaming Up With Teachers, Facebook & Other Tech Titans to Rethink Computer Science Education

Naomi Nix

As More Parents of Special Needs Students Seek Out Individualized Options, KIPP Expands ‘Pathways’ Program

Naomi Nix

Delaware Lawmakers Mull Nixing State Board of Ed to Help Ease Budget Crisis

Naomi Nix

South Carolina Announces $250,000 Fellowships for Educators to Launch Top-Notch Charter Schools

Naomi Nix

New CREDO Report Finds Nonprofit Charter Schools Perform Better for Children Than For-Profit Charters

Naomi Nix

What Defines a Segregated School? Debate Over Connecticut Integration Policy Heading to Court

Naomi Nix

Kansas Lawmakers Veto Governor’s Budget Plan, Add $300 Million for State’s Underfunded Schools

Naomi Nix

California Assembly Passes Sanctuary Bills Shielding K-12, College Students From Immigration Enforcement

Naomi Nix

Pharmaceutical Industry Urges Better K-12 STEM Education to Close Skills Gap & Avoid Worker Shortage

Naomi Nix

2 NJ High School Students Create Racial Literacy Text to Help Schools and Teens Learn to Talk About Race

Naomi Nix

John Legend Forks Over $5,000 to Help Pay Lunch Bill Debts for Seattle Public School Students

Naomi Nix

New Scholarships Help Low-Income Boston HS Grads — District, Charter, Parochial — Go to College for Free

Naomi Nix

Appellate Court Backs Wisconsin Transgender Student, Cites Federal Ed Law on Gender Bias

Naomi Nix

ICYMI: New Jersey Parents Appeal Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging Last In, First Out Teacher Layoff Policies

Naomi Nix

How 2 Business-Savvy Nonprofits Are Breathing New Life Into Philadelphia’s Struggling Catholic Schools

Naomi Nix

Wisconsin Lawmaker Tells Betsy DeVos That Vouchers Don’t Help Rural Kids. Research Shows He’s Right

Naomi Nix

Candidates Are Drawing School Choice Battle Lines in Campaign to Succeed New Jersey Gov. Christie

Naomi Nix

Inside the School Lunch Affordability Gap: Too Affluent for Free Food, Can’t Afford $1.75 Meals

Naomi Nix

ESSA as Campaign Issue? Michigan Lt. Gov. Wants Plan Back in New Debate on Counting Special Ed Kids

Naomi Nix

Charter Schools Receive $5,721 Less Per Student Than District Schools, New Research Finds

Naomi Nix

How Desmos Is Shaking Up the Calculator Industry With a Free Tool for Kids, Now Embedded Into Tests

Naomi Nix

New Jersey Judge Tosses Parents’ Lawsuit Claiming Last In, First Out Layoff Rules Harm Students

Naomi Nix

3 Things You Need to Know About The Associated Press’s Jaw-Dropping Investigation of Sexual Assaults by Students

Naomi Nix

Opt Out at Florida’s Supreme Court: How a Fight Over a Third-Grade Test Is Pitting Parents vs. the State

Naomi Nix

74 Interview: Professor Cheryl Fields-Smith on Why More Black Families Are Homeschooling Their Kids

Naomi Nix

Newark Voters Gear Up for Last School Board Race Before State Is Set to Return District to Local Control

Naomi Nix

Black Girls 6 Times as Likely to Be Suspended as Whites. ‘Let Her Learn’ Looks to Reverse the Trend

Naomi Nix

Tennessee Bets Big on Personalized Learning, Launching Pilot Program & Eyeing Big 2020 Goals

Naomi Nix

Tennessee Legislators Seek State’s First Voucher Law With Targeted Program for Memphis Kids

Naomi Nix

Want Another Parent to Homeschool Your Child? Welcome to Georgia’s Homeschool Schools

Naomi Nix

Suburban Districts Cry Foul As Connecticut Governor Looks to Shift State Funds to Poorer Urban Schools

Naomi Nix

Wisconsin Targets Wi-Fi, Busing, Teacher Staffing Woes With $30 Million for Underfunded Rural Schools

Naomi Nix

Massachusetts Looking to Downplay Kids’ Test Scores as Key Measure in Teacher Evaluations

Naomi Nix

Tennessee District Weighs Giving Principals More Money, Spending Power to Help High-Needs Kids

Naomi Nix

In Delaware, Critics Worry That ESSA Plans Will Give Low-Performing Schools Too Much Wiggle Room

Naomi Nix

Photos: Parents Took Their Kids to the Immigration Protests — and Created a Teachable Moment

Steve Snyder, Naomi Nix & Mark Keierleber

America’s School Choice Map: 5 Hot Spots for Vouchers, Savings Accounts and Tuition Tax Breaks

Naomi Nix

California District Denies Students Hot Lunch, Use of Cafeteria and Play Area, Charter School Says

Naomi Nix

Republican Tennessee Lawmakers Gear Up for New Voucher Proposals in Wake of Trump Election

Naomi Nix

Trump Nominees Sessions and Kelly Duck DACA, Immigration Questions at Confirmation Hearings

Naomi Nix

74 Interview: New Leaders Co-founder Benjamin Fenton on ESSA and How to Develop Better Principals

Naomi Nix

Student Test Scores Are on the Rise. Does That Mean Common Core Is Working?

Naomi Nix

How a Cultural Arts Center Built a High School to Mold Aspiring Artists

Naomi Nix

3 Shocking Ways Mass Incarceration Affects Kids’ Educations

Naomi Nix

Cory Booker Has ‘Serious Early Concerns’ About Nomination of DeVos as Education Sec’y

Naomi Nix

Pumped for Programming: ‘Hour of Code’ Highlights the Need for Computer Science Education

Naomi Nix

DACA Supporters Fear What Attorney General Jeff Sessions Would Mean for Immigrant Youth

Naomi Nix

Common Core, Trumped: Ed Secretary Hopeful DeVos Aligns With Pence in Pushing Local Standards

Naomi Nix

Louisiana Supt. John White Slams NEA Chief Over Criticism of New Orleans Recovery After Katrina

Naomi Nix

Students Fear Trump’s Vow to End DACA Could Mean Deportations — and an End to Their College Dreams

Naomi Nix

School Bullying After the Election: Students and Parents Recount Rising Anxiety and Intimidation

Naomi Nix & Mark Keierleber

Gary Herbert, Who Changed Positions on the Common Core, Wins Utah Governor’s Race

Naomi Nix

New Jersey Parents File Lawsuit to End First-In, Last-Out Layoffs

Naomi Nix

SCOTUS to Hear Virginia Transgender Case With Big Implications for Ed Policy and Beyond

Carolyn Phenicie, Naomi Nix & Mark Keierleber

Charlie Baker Optimistic Voters Will Lift Charter Cap in Massachusetts Despite Rising Opposition

Naomi Nix

74 Interview: Roland Martin’s Plans to Spread Quality Charters to Smaller Cities Post-NAACP

Naomi Nix

Are Charters Only ‘Path to Salvation’? No Way, Says Newark Schools Chief

Naomi Nix

As NAACP Votes for Charter Moratorium, School Families Rally Outside

Naomi Nix

Hilary Shelton Previews the NAACP’s Charter School Vote and How a National Moratorium Would Work

Naomi Nix

Chicago Avoids Teachers Strike, but Charter School Leaders Cry Foul Over Cap Slipped Into Negotiations

Naomi Nix

Chicago Charter School Families Protest Cap As Strike Deadline Looms

Naomi Nix

Is School Choice the Black Choice? Leaders Gather in D.C. to Disagree on Education Policy

Naomi Nix

How Denver Is Tackling the ‘Invisible Tax’ on Black Educators

Naomi Nix

Opponents of Ed Reform Also Unhappy With Candidates’ Silence on Education

Naomi Nix

KIPP Grieves, Mobilizes After Tulsa Shooting

Naomi Nix

Black Charter Leaders to NAACP: Hands Off Our Schools

Naomi Nix

Much Attention on Upcoming NAACP Charter Vote, Even if It’s Just the Latest in a Long Line

Naomi Nix

NJ’s Chris Christie to Challenge Decades-Old Abbott Funding Plan for Poor Cities

Naomi Nix

How a Manhattan High School’s Turnaround Story Could Shape Trump’s (and Clinton’s) Education Plan

Naomi Nix

3 Things to Know About the Explosive Houston Chronicle Investigation of Texas’ Special Ed Policies

Naomi Nix

New York City’s Summer Training Chasm: 2 Teachers, 2 Vastly Different First Weeks at School

Naomi Nix

3 Things the New Trump Book Reveals About His Rebellious, Defining Days in School

Naomi Nix

The Financial Catastrophe Looming Over Chicago Public Schools, in 6 Numbers

Naomi Nix

Parents Like Tests But Don’t Know How Much School Costs — 4 Takeaways from the New EdNext Poll

Naomi Nix

A New Nashville School Is Integrating its Students, Eliminating Suspensions — and Acing the State Tests

Naomi Nix

Training, Internships, Jobs in Growing Industries: How YouthForce Nola Is Helping New Orleans’ Teens

Naomi Nix

Should They Stay or Should They Go: Missouri Families in Michael Brown’s High School Face a Hard Choice

Naomi Nix

NAACP May Double Down on Charter School Opposition as Civil Rights Allies Strongly Disagree

Naomi Nix

New York’s Testing Landscape Changes and Scores Get Better, Opt-Out Movement Holds Steady

Naomi Nix

Jersey Roar: Schools Make A Comeback in Camden, the Nation’s Most Distressed City

Naomi Nix

6 Lessons From Standardized Testing’s Stubborn Tech Crisis

Naomi Nix

A Student Protest at High-Achieving Charter High School Spotlights Teacher Diversity Struggle

Naomi Nix

How Do You Monitor Homeschooling Parents? Welcome to the Wild West of Education Regulation

Naomi Nix

Connecticut’s Shame: In One of America’s Richest Counties, a High School Has Been Failing for 50 Years

Naomi Nix

New Minnesota Lawsuit Challenges State’s Teacher Tenure and Dismissal Process

Naomi Nix

Chicago Public Schools 101: The Politics, Passion and Hopeless Financials Behind a System in Crisis

Matt Barnum & Naomi Nix

Chicago Public Schools 101: The Politics, Passion and Hopeless Financials Behind a System in Crisis

Matt Barnum & Naomi Nix

Opt Out Round II: States Walk a Line Between Boycotters’ Demands and Feds’ Funding Threats

Naomi Nix

Welcome to New Jersey, Where More Than Half of All School Board Races Have One — or No —Candidate

Naomi Nix

#WhichBernie Supports School Choice? Inside Sanders’ Super Tuesday Pivot on Charter Schools

Naomi Nix

High-ranking NJ Teachers Union Leader Can’t Also Sit on Board That OKs School Budget, Judge Says

Naomi Nix

Why Some Indiana Lawmakers Want to Bypass Teachers Unions to Pay Educators More Money (UPDATED)

Naomi Nix

Long Struggle Against Teacher Sex Abuse in Spotlight After Investigation

Naomi Nix

Schools — Not Just States — to Finally Get Access to Teacher Misconduct Data After National Investigation

Naomi Nix

Q&A: Former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Talks L.A. Charter Expansion, the Friedrichs Case at the Supreme Court — and a Possible Run for Governor

Naomi Nix

‘I’m Scared for Kids in This City’: Yet Another Chicago Public Schools Showdown Leaves Parents Fuming

Naomi Nix

How a Newark Monastery Trains Young Men in School — and Life

Naomi Nix

MLK III Leads March in Support of Florida School Vouchers, Tapping into Civil Rights Legacy

Naomi Nix

Chicago Schools Issue Call for New Charters to Serve Traumatized Students

Naomi Nix

Refugees Welcome Here: Connecticut Public Schools’ Ambitious Plan to Embrace Syrian Students

Naomi Nix

Alaska’s Campaign to Get Faster Internet to Its Most Remote Schools — Where Even Dial-Up Is a Luxury

Naomi Nix

Rahm vs. the Teachers Union II? Teachers Vote To Strike, Will Politics Play Differently This Time

Naomi Nix

When Zuckerberg Commits Billions for Personalized Learning, He’s Thinking of Programs Like NJ’s ‘Teach to One’

Naomi Nix

Why Oklahoma Is Racing to Put Nearly 1,000 Uncertified Teachers In Its Classrooms

Naomi Nix

Documents Show Teachers Unions Spent Millions on Luxury Hotels, Overseas Travel, Car Services

Naomi Nix

No iPhone? Slow Wi-Fi? Arkansas Schools Build Texting App to Help Rural Students with College Search

Naomi Nix

Hillary Clinton Rushes to Clarify Charter Critique in Sit-Down with AFT and Data-Driven Blog Post

Naomi Nix

Exclusive: Roland Martin Says Hillary Clinton ‘Trying to Have It Both Ways’ With Calculated Charter Rhetoric

Naomi Nix

#TeachStrong: Teachers Unions, Reform Groups Launch Joint Campaign to Elevate Educators

Naomi Nix

Parents Cheer after Judge Denies Second Request to Dismiss New York Teacher Tenure Case

Naomi Nix

Can Newark’s New(ish) Schools Chief Chris Cerf Bring Political Peace and Lasting Change?

Naomi Nix

Cami Anderson Talks Ed Reform, Facebook and What ‘The Prize’ Left Out About Newark

Naomi Nix

VIDEO: Meet the NYC Parents Who Marched Across the Brooklyn Bridge in Support of School Choice

Naomi Nix & Mark Keierleber

Analysis: Jeb Bush Wasn’t Just Talking About ‘Free Stuff.’ He Was Talking About Getting Poor Kids Into Better Schools

Naomi Nix

Shavar Jeffries’ Breakthrough: What Newark Politics Taught Him About Taking Ed Reform National

Naomi Nix

Absurd Policy Allows NYC Teachers to Earn Raises Via Tests That Have Nothing To Do With Their Job

Naomi Nix

New York Teacher Tenure Suit Challenged Again by Union and State Officials

Naomi Nix

Chris Christie Dances on Common Core, Tangles with Bush on Randi Weingarten, in NH Conversation

Naomi Nix

NY’s Test Boycott Tops Out at 20%. Enough, Union says, to Affect Scores

Naomi Nix

A Boston Breakthrough: UP Academy Goes From Failing to First

Naomi Nix

A Year After Ferguson, St. Louis Parents Fight to Escape Michael Brown’s Terrible High School

Naomi Nix

After Caitlyn Jenner, a New World for Transgender Students — and a New Civil Rights Battleground

Naomi Nix

Anatomy of an Opt-Out Movement: The Secret Forces Targeting the Classrooms of Montclair, NJ

Naomi Nix

Meet the Tech Guru Taking on the Word Gap One Mobile App at a Time

Naomi Nix

Exclusive: The Politics of Education At the Aspen Ideas Festival

Naomi Nix