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Exclusive Report: As Movement Grows, Microschools Aren’t So ‘Micro’ Anymore

The spread of private school choice programs are fueling growth, but public schools also see the model’s potential.

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
child development
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Introducing zero2eight: The 74’s Hub for Early Care & Education

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commentary

Learning Together as a Team Boosts Both Teachers’ Practice & Student Achievement

Fisher & Frey: Our work in 115 schools shows the benefits of professional learning communities that focus on student data and continuous improvement.

Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey
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School Closures
Brookings Institution

Exclusive Data Highlights Paradox: As Enrollment Falls, Fewer Schools Close

Districts with plans to close schools often meet stiff community resistance. School leaders, in the words of one expert, are ‘so bad at this.’

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Artificial Intelligence
AI

An Antidote to Plagiarism: New App Uses AI to Help Students Think Critically

‘Level Up,’ developed by Eliott Hedman, wants to flip a bleak script around artificial intelligence and its negative effects on student motivation.

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
California
budget cuts

How Head Start Dodged Trump’s Budget Cuts

Head Start staff and advocates launched a nationwide campaign to save the program, which Trump eliminated in his budget draft.

Carolyn Jones
immigration
Center for Migration Studies

As Deportation Target Widens, College-Educated Undocumented Grow More Fearful

While Trump’s focus has fallen on immigrant laborers, there are 1.7M undocumented with a bachelor’s degree or higher and 408K enrolled in college.

Jo Napolitano
Author: Jo Napolitano
school (in)security
data breach

PowerSchool Paid Off Hackers After Huge Breach — Now They’re Extorting Districts

Millions of students’ and educators’ sensitive records, including Social Security numbers, face new risks as cybergang reneges on ransomware deal.

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber

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District Finances

Interactive: School Spending vs. Teacher Pay — See Trends in 8,900 Districts

Aldeman: Teacher salaries have been flat for a long time, lagging behind not only per-pupil spending, but earnings of other college-educated workers

Chad Aldeman
Author: Chad Aldeman

Pandemic

Pandemic
education
Pandemic

Five Years Later: How COVID Triggered a School Choice Renaissance

Dissatisfaction with schools, and a supercharged conservative movement, allowed ESAs to take a leap since the pandemic.

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Child Nutrition
child hunger
Pandemic

New Food Security Threats 5 Years After COVID-Era Effort to Feed All Kids

Pandemic emergency aid drove food insecurity to an all-time low, but many say a string of federal cuts will now leave millions more kids hungry.

Jo Napolitano
Author: Jo Napolitano
Pandemic
pandemic
Pandemic

Remote Learning Was Supposed to Make Snow Days Obsolete. But Did It Really?

Five years after classes went virtual during COVID, some districts shift online when weather strikes. But others still can't quite make it work.

Lauren Wagner
Author: Lauren Wagner
Pandemic
covid
Pandemic

KIPP’s Night Kindergarten in Newark: A Rare ‘Bright Spot’ in COVID’s Dark Days

The program is a unique example of a school that moved quickly to keep children from missing out on their first year of school.

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
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Learning Together as a Team Boosts Both Teachers’ Practice & Student Achievement

Fisher & Frey: Our work in 115 schools shows the benefits of professional learning communities that focus on student data and continuous improvement.

Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey
commentary
commentary

To Close the Latino Student Success Gap, Open Up the Educator Pipeline

Fernandez and Bryson: When Latino students have teachers with the same background, it creates an environment where students can thrive.

Amanda Fernandez & Dana Bryson
Teacher Retention
commentary

The Voices We Don’t Hear: Teachers Who Gave Up

Pondiscio: So many earnest, well-intended people want to teach but find the job untenable. We should hear what they have to say and learn from them.

Robert Pondiscio
Author: Robert Pondiscio
commentary
commentary

The True Impact of School Meal Funding Cuts: More Hunger, Less Learning

Wilson: Reductions that Congress and the White House are considering would make it harder for students to learn and thrive.

Katie Wilson
Author: Katie Wilson
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Altadena Girls

Teens Provide Sense of Normalcy in the Face of the L.A. Fires

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STEM
education

How To Teach STEM? Make It Explosive

Jim Fields
Author: Jim Fields
Arts education
Arts education

The Student-Led Music Group that Led Zeppelin Loves

The Louisville Leopard Percussionists performed for Ozzy Osbourne, and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin promoted their YouTube cover of ‘Kashmir.’

Jim Fields
Author: Jim Fields
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Chronic Absenteeism
Pandemic

Student Absences Have Surged Since COVID. Some Say Parents Should be Jailed

Dozens of bills nationwide seek to address chronic absenteeism. While some focus on supports and incentives, others look to leverage punishments.

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber

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Analysis

DeAngelis & Barnard: Does Competition From Charter Schools Change District Schools’ Budgeting Decisions? New Texas Study Shows It Does

Corey A. DeAngelis & Christian Barnard
EDlection 2020

Avila & Ponce: Presidential Candidates Need a Primer on What’s Really Wrong With Our Public Schools. Our Education Platform Can Help

Layla Avila & Ana Ponce
EDlection 2020

Aldeman: The Iowa Caucuses Steer Our National Priorities. But Iowa’s Education Policies Are Bad for the Nation — and for Iowa

Chad Aldeman
Author: Chad Aldeman
Touts

Appreciation: Remembering Clayton Christensen, a Gentle Giant of Innovation and Believer in the Power of Education

Michael B. Horn
4Fams

Super Bowl Special: How Former 49er Tyrone Smith Made It From Poverty to the NFL — With Grit, Determination & Help From His Teachers

Tyrone Smith
EduClips: Today's Top Education News

EduClips: Florida Scraps Common Core, Puerto Rico Struggles to Open Schools After Quakes, NYC Now Spending $28,000 Per Student & More Education News You Missed From America’s Top Districts

Laura Fay
Author: Laura Fay
early learning

To the Stars and Beyond from a Tower of Blocks

K.C. Compton
Author: K.C. Compton
Los Angeles

Cal State University Approves Plan to Add New Admissions Requirement — but Delays Making Formal Change Before Studying Impact

Taylor Swaak
Author: Taylor Swaak
Touts

An ‘Alienated America’ Needs Community-Building Schools — Something Catholic Schools Have Been Doing for Generations

Kathleen Porter-Magee
National School Choice Week

An ‘Alienated America’ Needs Community-Building Schools — Something Catholic Schools Have Been Doing for Generations

Kathleen Porter-Magee
National School Choice Week

Three Distinct Charter Schools, One Shared Mission: To Provide High-Quality Choices for Students in Rural Idaho

Alan Gottlieb
Best of the Month

The 12 Best Education Articles From January: America’s Most Segregated Classrooms, New Social-Emotional Efforts at (and After) School, the Rise of Esports & More

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EDlection 2020

Districts, Charters and ‘Public School Vouchers’: Unraveling Elizabeth Warren’s Complicated Evolution on School Choice

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
News

Do Parents Actually Want Their Kids in Integrated Schools? New Harvard Survey Reveals Mixed Messages

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
Opinion

Appreciation: Remembering Clayton Christensen, a Gentle Giant of Innovation and Believer in the Power of Education

Michael B. Horn
Touts

Adams: An Open Letter to Families Who Don’t Believe in School Choice — Because They Don’t Realize They Already Have It

Alina Adams
Author: Alina Adams
4Fams

Adams: An Open Letter to Families Who Don’t Believe in School Choice — Because They Don’t Realize They Already Have It

Alina Adams
Author: Alina Adams
National School Choice Week

‘You’re Debating Someone Else’s Child’: 30 Years Later, Milwaukee’s School Voucher Program Divides a City Whose Public Schools Struggle

Cara Fitzpatrick
Union Report

Union Report: New Year, Same Old Decline in Union Membership. But the Teachers Unions Are Still Big Fish in a Shrinking Pond

Mike Antonucci
Every Student Succeeds Act

This Week’s ESSA News: Why a New DOE Spending Study Could Have Major Implications for Equity, Rewriting the Rules on Religious Liberty & More

Erika Ross
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