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Insights from a Math App About Learning in the Pandemic

Shalinee Sharma
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Study Finds that Remote Classes Led Students to Disenroll

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
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McAfee Finds Vulnerability in Ed Tech Surveillance Tool

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
Pandemic
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How Schools Stayed Open During COVID-19

Betsy Ladyzhets, COVID-19 Data Dispatch
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COVID-19
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What Researchers Know — & Don't — as School Year Gets Underway

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins

Cleveland
Cleveland

Indianapolis: Turning to Bus Drivers to Keep Students on Track
Cleveland
Cleveland

Alabama: How One District Looked for Ways to Ease Educator Workloads
Cleveland
Cleveland

History: 10 Lessons in Learning Loss From Past Crises
Cleveland
Cleveland

Photo History: 52 Weeks of COVID & Schools, 52 Iconic Photos
Pandemic
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Pandemic

Why the Fallout from Pandemic’s K-Shaped Recession Will Affect Schools for Years

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins

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Culture Wars Cost Schools Estimated $3.2B Last Year, Harming Student Services

New research says divisive debates over race, gender and sexual orientation have diverted billions of dollars and driven educators from their jobs.

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld

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Public Funds, Private Schools: A New Analysis of the Early Returns in Eight States

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld
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Too Hard or Too Easy: The ‘Big, Statewide Fight’ Over MA. Graduation Requirement

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld
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To Curb Chronic Absenteeism, NYC Schools Embrace Data and Peer Connections

Mia Hollie
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Which School Districts Do the Best Job of Teaching Kids to Read?

Chad Aldeman
Author: Chad Aldeman
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The Parent Report Card: Teachers Get an ‘A.’ The System? Not so Much.

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld
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In Troubling Shift, English Learners Outpace Peers in Chronic Absenteeism in CA

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld
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Many Americans Think K-12 STEM Ed Lags Behind Peer Nations. They’re Half-Right

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld
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Parent Poll: It’s the Economy — Not Culture Wars — Worrying Them & Cellphones OK

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld
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14 Charts that Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2023

Kevin Mahnken
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14 Charts This Year That Helped Explain COVID’s Impact on America’s Schools

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
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Report: Depression Among Youth Hits 30-Year High in Pandemic

Keila Szpaller, Daily Montanan
Pandemic

Educators' Mental Health Tied to Classroom Effectiveness

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
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16 Charts that Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2021

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

Pfizer Shot 91% Effective at Preventing COVID in Children Ages 5-11

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
Pandemic

White House Unveils Plans for Mass Vaccination Effort of 5- to 11-Year Olds

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

‘It May Even Get Worse.’ Supply Chain Crisis Forces Districts to Get Creative

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

New Partnership to Help Districts Use Real-Time Data to Aid Student Recovery

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
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‘Staggering’: New Research Shows that Child Obesity Has Soared During Pandemic

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
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Board in Charge of National Reading Tests Moves Past Equity Dispute

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Tests Show Early Reading Skills Rebounding, But Racial Gaps Have Grown Wider

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Youth Vaccination Rates Plummet, Reigniting Debates Over Masks in School

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
Pandemic

A Year After Pre-K Went Virtual, Some Question Its Post-Pandemic Future

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
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In-Person Learning Divide: TX Data Shows Students of Color Less Likely to Return

Allyson Waller, The Texas Tribune
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12 Big Challenges From Last School Year That Could Now Define the Fall of 2021

Steve Snyder
Author: Steve Snyder
Pandemic

Federal Data Shows Pandemic Fueled Huge Drop in K-12 Enrollment

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

COVID Family Feud? Report Shows Moms More Resistant to Vaccinating Kids vs. Dads

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
Pandemic

Survey: Support for Remote Schooling is Limited, but Highest Among Minorities

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
Pandemic

College Enrollment Continues to Plunge

Richard Whitmire
Author: Richard Whitmire
American Education’s Most Turbulent Year

New Data: Red States Offered 432 More Hours of In-Person Learning v. Blue States

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
Pandemic

Studies Show Promise for Online Tutoring

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

COVID Learning Loss: New Warning as 54% of Miami Kids Below Grade Level in Math

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
Pandemic

Teachers Say Math Learning Loss Might Take Years to Overcome

Jo Napolitano
Author: Jo Napolitano
Pandemic

Early Look at Relief Funds Shows Districts Give Short Shrift to Learning Loss

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Study: Four-Day School Week Harms Learning

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

Inside the Massachusetts Study that Helped Change the CDC’s Stance on Social Distancing

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

FAFSA Applications Fell After COVID — And For Many Incoming Freshmen, They Haven’t Recovered

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

Study: Chicago Tutoring Program Delivered Huge Math Gains; Personalization May Be the Key

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

One Year into Pandemic, Far Fewer Young Students are on Target to Learn How to Read, Tests Show

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

CDC Study Finds Teachers ‘Central’ To COVID Transmission When Distancing, Masks Not Enforced

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Survey: Pandemic-Related Stress Tops Teachers’ Reasons for Quitting, But Vaccines, COVID Testing Could Lure Some of Them Back

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

What 114 Pre-Pandemic Studies About ‘Flipped’ Classrooms Could Tell Us About Refining Our Approach to Remote Learning in 2021

Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report