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Dismantling Ed Dept. Will Harm More Than 26 Million Kids — and America’s Future

Flores: Students in poverty & rural areas, kids with disabilities, English learners and homeless children will all suffer without federal protections.

Yolie Flores
Author: Yolie Flores
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Instead of Banning Cellphones in School, Our Connecticut District Embraced Them

Educators' view: It’s not the device that matters, but access to high-quality digital content. Our students now use phones as learning tools.

Mark D. Benigni & Barbara A. Haeffner
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AI Tool Shows Teachers What They Do in the Classroom — and How to Do It Better

Educators' view: Teacher coaching app scans classroom video and maps who is speaking, for how long and whether discussion is respectful and on topic.

David Adams & Michael Middleton
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Federal Enforcement of Open Enrollment Law Is Good News for Students & Families

Enlow: By letting kids cross school boundaries to escape bullying and other threats to learning, Ed Dept. is empowering parents with freedom of choice

Robert Enlow
Author: Robert Enlow
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Wicks: Americans’ Commitment to Democracy Is Strong — and Civics Education Is the People’s Choice for Making Our Democracy Even Stronger

Anne Wicks
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Roemer — The Next Phase for America’s Most Radical School Improvement Effort: What New Orleans’s Shared Governance District Will Need to Succeed

Caroline Roemer
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The First Word My 4-Year-Old Learned This Summer Was ‘Lynching’: Why I Thought It Was Important to Take My Preschooler to Montgomery

Bekah McNeel
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Shuls: Do Charter Schools Take Districts’ Money? Only If You Think Children, and the Funding That Comes With Them, Are District Property

James V. Shuls
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Walsh: Teacher Residencies Are Fine. But Districts Already Have the Power to Fix the Student Teacher Pipeline — at Far Lower Cost

Kate Walsh
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Razsadin: How Teachers Can Ease the Transition for Military Children When They’re the New Kid in School — Again

Shannon Razsadin
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Commentary: 5 Lessons From an Indiana District That Worked With an Outside Partner to Turn Around Its Troubled Schools

David Smith, Susan F. Lusi & Rob Jentsch
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Levesque: States, Districts, and Businesses Must Work Together to Create Successful CTE Programs for Students. These 3 Playbooks Can Help

Patricia Levesque
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Milkie: 20 Years, 17 Schools & 25,000 Students — Noble Charter Schools Celebrates Its 1st 2 Decades & Looks Forward to the Next 2

Michael Milkie
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Rittling: How New ESSA Preschool Development Grants Will Help States Build a Foundation of Success for Our Littlest Learners

Sarah Rittling
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Golston: Today’s $90 Million Gates Foundation Grants Are Just a Down Payment on $460 Million to Aid Dozens of Schools & Tens of Thousands of Kids

Allan Golston
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Parent Perspective: 5 Ways Parents — and Parent Advocates — Can Stand Up for Families and Quality Education for All Children

Tafshier Kim Cosby-Thomas
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Commentary: Building Trust Between Students and Teachers Helps Kids Overcome Trauma — and Makes Schools Safer

Micere Keels
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Boser & Frank — Forgetting Can Be an Important Part of Learning: How ‘Summer Slide,’ and the Process of Relearning, Can Actually Help Students Master a Subject

Ulrich Boser & Chris Frank
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Cunningham: How New York Times Op-Ed Got It Wrong on School Choice and Segregation

Peter Cunningham
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Commentary: A Mom Wonders — I Never Enjoyed Math, but My Kids Love It. When Did Doing Math Become Fun?

Tally Bernard
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Sahm: New NYC Computer HS Pairs Charter School Flexibility With Career & Technical Education. Charter Leaders Should Take Notice

Charles Sahm
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A Mom’s Plea: My Charter School Child Deserves Access to Special Education Services. New York City Is Standing in His Way

Johanna Castillo
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Spiro — Principals Need Coaches Too: What a New Study of 6 Large School Districts Reveals About the Shifting Role, and Value, of ‘Principal Supervisors’

The 74
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A Mother’s Crusade: My Special-Needs Daughter Is Thriving in a School Committed to Inclusion. I’m Fighting So More Kids Have That Chance

Karla Phillips
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