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Trump Administration Takes on School Emails as Parental Rights Issue

The Education Department’s revival of a 12-year-old privacy case comes as it cracks down on districts that keep student gender transitions secret.

Author: Linda Jacobson

How a Federal Seed Money Program Has Powered Ed Tech Innovations

Tucker & Metz: Small Business Innovation Research-fostered products have reached more than 130 million students and teachers. Now, program is at risk.

Eric Tucker & Edward Metz

On Katrina’s 20th Anniversary, Patrick Dobard Revisits NOLA Reboot

Former head of the Recovery School District talks reform, race and work yet undone in turning around New Orleans' schools.

Author: Beth Hawkins

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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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special education

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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Future of High School

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Future of High School

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

Future of High School

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

Future of High School

Future of High School

Future of High School

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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Opinion

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

How a Federal Seed Money Program Has Powered Ed Tech Innovations

Tucker & Metz: Small Business Innovation Research-fostered products have reached more than 130 million students and teachers. Now, program is at risk.

Eric Tucker & Edward Metz

The Inconvenient Success of New Orleans Schools

Gupta: How the most dramatic education transformation in modern America became too uncomfortable for anyone to talk about.

Author: Ravi Gupta

How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance to Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Kogan: Schools' dysfunction is hard-wired into a governance model that puts adults' political agendas ahead of students' educational interests.

Author: Vladimir Kogan

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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

Early Care and Education

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

Child Tax Credit

Child Tax Credit

Who Are the Kids and Families Left Out of the Updated Child Tax Credit?

A change to the Child Tax Credit requires children and at least one parent to have a Social Security Number. Here’s what that could mean for families.

PBS Behind the Scenes: A Visual History of Milestones and Iconic Moments

A look back at the history of PBS and PBS Kids, and a glimpse into efforts to protect the organization, which has served generations of learners.

Meghan Gallagher

Author: Meghan Gallagher

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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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Max Marchitello: Donald Trump’s Dystopian Future for Education

Max Marchitello

Author: Max Marchitello

Recapping the RNC Live Blog: Empty, Confused and Dangerous Education Talk at Trump’s Convention

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ClassDojo Announces the Launch of Student Stories: A New Way for Students to Share Their Classwork

Author: Tim Newcomb

Does Trump Nomination Mean End of GOP In School Reform? It’s Complicated

Author: Matt Barnum

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Carolyn Phenicie

Author: Carolyn Phenicie

The Homeless Teen Who Biked 6 Hours to School — and the Georgia Town That United Around Him

Nathania Johnson

Author: Nathania Johnson

Petrilli: When Only Some Kids Can Afford Summer Camp — Why We Must Close the ‘Enrichment Gap’

Michael J. Petrilli

Author: Michael J. Petrilli

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Mark Keierleber

Author: Mark Keierleber

Review: Paul Tough’s Impoverished Agenda for Helping Children Succeed

Author: Matt Barnum

All Over the Cap: The Fight for the Future of Massachusetts’ Charter Schools

Richard Whitmire

Author: Richard Whitmire

The Pro-School Choice, Anti-Common Core Education Legacy of GOP VP Nominee Mike Pence

Carolyn Phenicie

Author: Carolyn Phenicie

Minnesota’s Board of Teachers Stonewalls Teacher Licensing Changes to the Point of Contempt

Author: Beth Hawkins

Exclusive: Amendment Adds Imaginary Testing Standard to Democratic Education Platform

Author: Matt Barnum

GOP Sets the Stage for Cleveland Convention: Here’s Where 18 RNC Elites Stand on Education

Carolyn Phenicie

Author: Carolyn Phenicie

Ms. Brown’s Epic Bike Trip: One Florida Teacher Quits Her Job to Ride 4,000 Miles for a Good Cause

Nathania Johnson

Author: Nathania Johnson

Cunningham: Democrats Rewrite Education Platform Behind Closed Doors, and Abandon Core Party Values

Peter Cunningham

Putting the ‘Achievable Over the Ambitious’: The Problem When Teachers Grade Themselves

Author: Matt Barnum

Crisis Text Line Brings Help to Troubled Teens Where They Live — Their Phones

Mareesa Nicosia

Author: Mareesa Nicosia

O’bette Jamison: Meet the New Generation of ‘Emerging Leaders’ Lifting Up Teens in Baltimore

O'bette Jamison

Port Townsend Goes to Sea: A Coastal Town Organizes Its Schools Around Climate Change

Heather McRae-Woolf

Author: Heather McRae-Woolf

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