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No Idea Too Radical: Inside New Orleans’ Dramatic K-12 Turnaround After Katrina

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina forced the reboot of New Orleans' schools, academics and college-going are up, but racial divides persist.

Author: Beth Hawkins

Reflections on Rebuilding New Orleans’ Education System One School at a Time

Hill: CRPE researchers were there at the start. The key lesson: Always be nimble in response to new educational challenges and possibilities.

Author: Paul Hill

7,000 New Orleans Teachers Lost Jobs After Katrina. Here’s How the City Rebuilt

The new episode of ‘Where the Schools Went’ spotlights how the redesigning of the school system sparked profound changes to the NOLA teaching force.

Author: Ravi Gupta

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Support for Phone Bans in Schools Is Growing, but Is It Enough to Help Kids?

New York will implement one of the strictest bans on school technologies, but experts are split on if it will help mental health challenges.

Author: Jessika Harkay

From Classroom Drudgery to Joyful Enrichment: The Evolution of Summer School

The pandemic supercharged summer school’s transformation from remedial academics to learning plus fun — and now there’s no going back, experts say.

Author: Amanda Geduld

The Most Overlooked Classroom In Every District

Carone: Youth sports are considered just a physical outlet for kids. What we’re overlooking is the depth of learning and development happening there.

Jonathan Carone

Author: Jonathan Carone

Penny Schwinn Drops Out of the Running for Ed Department’s Deputy Role

Some viewed the former Tennessee education commissioner as a bipartisan pick for the post, but past controversies followed her.

Author: Linda Jacobson

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For Decades, the Feds Were the Last, Best Hope for Special Ed Kids. What Happens Now?

State-level complaints over disputes with districts have never been as easy as intended. Now, they're all desperate families have left.

Lauren Wagner & Beth Hawkins

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Hurricane Katrina: 20 Years of Change in New Orleans Schools

A T74 series covering the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, its effects, and the recovery of New Orleans’ schools. Read all our coverage and essays here.

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The Race to Redefine the High School Learning Experience Is On

Schools are rethinking what students should know by the time they graduate, emphasizing tangible, employable skills, rather than test scores and GPAs.

Future of High School

Future of High School

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With Welding Tools and a Time Clock, Giving New Mexico Kids Leg Up on the Future

Engineering the Future, Valley High School’s magnet program, has 6 career tracks that are a model for the district — and maybe for the entire state

Author: Beth Hawkins

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Reflections From a Formerly Disengaged Teen

Student’s view: I used to sit in the back of class, trying my best to avoid eye contact with my teacher, but now I sit in the front row every day.

Author: Hannah Askew

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‘This Isn’t School’: Teaching Work Etiquette to Summer Interns

Kansas City teens learn 'soft skills' — communication, punctuality, teamwork — along with how to do jobs as ProX summer interns.

Patrick O’Donnell

Author: Patrick O’Donnell

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We Shouldn’t Accept That Some Kids With Disabilities Just Won’t Learn to Read

Rodriguez: Teachers need evidence-based, structured, supplemental foundational curriculum to help struggling readers master challenges.

Author: Kaci Rodriguez

Reflections on Rebuilding New Orleans’ Education System One School at a Time

Hill: CRPE researchers were there at the start. The key lesson: Always be nimble in response to new educational challenges and possibilities.

Author: Paul Hill

The Big Picture

Why States Must Lead on Education R&D, and How They Can Start Today

Joe, Bishop-Root and Colwell: To prepare students for the opportunities and challenges ahead, states must prioritize research and development.

Jilliam Joe, Sarah Bishop-Root & Leslie Colwell

Let’s Bring Project-Based Learning and Community Service Into the 21st Century

Inwood: It’s time to stop wasting students’ time with slide-deck projects and checkbox community service and let students engage in the real world.

Author: Dvora Inwood

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Home-Based Child Care Providers Reach Tentative Deal with the State

Child Care Providers United, which represents family child care providers, reached a tentative deal with the state.

Women Dropping Out of Missouri Workforce Is An Economic Red Alert. How to Fix It

Doyle: A recent drop in women’s workforce participation is a blinking red light for women and our economy.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Book Club Fights Children’s Literacy Crisis and Trump

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, first partner of California, formed a book club to address the children’s literacy crisis while saving libraries.

Nadra Nittle, The 19th

Florida District Leans Into Science of Reading Starting in Early Childhood

Hammond: Educators and nonprofits cannot overlook the fact that what children experience from birth to age 5 can make or break literacy instruction.

Barbara Hammond

Author: Barbara Hammond

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Early Care and Education

Lessons From the Military for Solving North Carolina’s Child Care Crisis

'The military understood very early the link between people getting to work and child care.'

Katie Dukes, EducationNC

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‘Cognitive Science,’ All the Rage in British Schools, Fails to Register in U.S.

Educators blame this ‘reverse Beatles effect’ on America’s decentralized system and grad schools that are often hostile to research.

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Tyre: This Pandemic Pause Is a Chance to Rethink How We Test Students. The International Baccalaureate Exam Program Is Worth a Look

Bradford: Black Lives Matter and Black Education Matters Because Freedom Matters. Only When Black Folks Are Safe to Both Learn and Live Will America Be Free

As COVID-19 Threatens Millions of Child Care ‘Slots,’ Families Face Deep Disruptions to Their Children’s Early Learning and Social Development and to Their Own Jobs

74 Interview — A Racial Divide in How Kids View Police, Teachers & Neighborhoods: Researcher Lindsay Bell Weixler on the Sobering Findings of Her New Orleans Student Survey

Author: Beth Hawkins

Tyre: This Pandemic Pause Is a Chance to Rethink How We Test Students. The International Baccalaureate Exam Program Is Worth a Look

Author: Peg Tyre

Bradford: Black Lives Matter and Black Education Matters Because Freedom Matters. Only When Black Folks Are Safe to Both Learn and Live Will America Be Free

Derrell Bradford

Author: Derrell Bradford

An Educator’s View: Teaching Is Hard. Teaching Teens Remotely From Home Is Harder. 5 Things We’ve Learned to Help Make It Easier

Paul Bambrick-Santoyo

Jerabek: Teacher-Student Connections Get Lost in Distance Learning. We Must Start Rebuilding Those Relationships When School Reopens

‘Just Above Water’: As Hallowed D.C. Summer Youth Employment Program Preps to Go Virtual for First Time, Employers Rush to Create Meaningful Experience for 10,000 Students

Author: Taylor Swaak

Smith: A Call to Action — Black Educators Need White Co-Conspirators to Combat Racism in Schools and Empower Our Students to Succeed

Smith: A Call to Action — Black Educators Need White Co-Conspirators to Combat Racism in Schools and Empower Our Students to Succeed

Kimberly A. Smith

Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: School Groups Urging Congress to Relax Special Ed Mandate, CARES Act Funds Reach Schools in Pennsylvania, Prioritizing Arts Education in School Reopenings & More

In the Face of American ‘Truth Decay,’ Polls Shed Light on How Much Families Are Hurting During COVID-19

Conor P. Williams

Author: Conor P. Williams

One-Way Hallways, See-Through Partitions, Handwashing Stations & Lunch in Class — Architects’ Models for Socially Distanced Schools

Author: Tim Newcomb

Polonetsky: Are the Online Programs Your Child’s School Uses Protecting Student Privacy? Some Things to Look For

Jules Polonetsky

My Mom Is 55, Is Black, and Just Returned to Work in a Doctor’s Office in New York City. That’s Why I’m Scared

Pandemic Planning: We Know the Inequities Black and Brown Students Face, and This Knowledge Requires Action

Nichelle Holder

Editor’s Notebook: Mourning George Floyd, Confronting Entrenched Racism and Leading an Honest Conversation About the Inequalities Holding Our Schools Back

Author: Steve Snyder

Rotherham: Kick Out School Resource Officers? Sure. But Counselors Must Be Brought In to Take Their Place

Andrew J. Rotherham

Author: Andrew J. Rotherham

Pandemic Planning: We Know the Inequities Black and Brown Students Face, and This Knowledge Requires Action

Nichelle Holder

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