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The Opioid Crisis Was America’s Epidemic Before COVID. Research Suggests that Overdoses Hurt Student Achievement
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Teachers Unions Lift Salaries and School Spending, Research Shows, But Evidence on Student Achievement Is Mixed
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New Study: 5 Ways Racist 1930s Housing Policies Still Haunt Schools
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Inside the Massachusetts Study that Helped Change the CDC’s Stance on Social Distancing
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Survey: More Young People Are Depressed During the Pandemic. But They May Be Using Social Media to Cope
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FAFSA Applications Fell After COVID — And For Many Incoming Freshmen, They Haven’t Recovered
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Study: Chicago Tutoring Program Delivered Huge Math Gains; Personalization May Be the Key
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One Year into Pandemic, Far Fewer Young Students are on Target to Learn How to Read, Tests Show
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CDC Study Finds Teachers ‘Central’ To COVID Transmission When Distancing, Masks Not Enforced
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A Pre-COVID Education Study With Big Implications for Remote Learning During the Pandemic: When Parents Take Over, Children Give Up Easier
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Survey: Pandemic-Related Stress Tops Teachers’ Reasons for Quitting, But Vaccines, COVID Testing Could Lure Some of Them Back
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Report: New Summer Learning Initiative, Launched Last Year as a 5-Week Pilot for Nearly 12,000 Students, Shows Promise For Improving Online Instruction
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Leaders in California and South Carolina Find Learning Loss — Especially in the Early Grades — But Experts Say Data is Still ‘Imperfect’
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Lead Poisoning Hurts Kids. A New Study Shows How Exposure from an Unexpected Source — NASCAR Racetracks — Lowered Test Scores
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What 114 Pre-Pandemic Studies About ‘Flipped’ Classrooms Could Tell Us About Refining Our Approach to Remote Learning in 2021
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Force of Habit: New Study Finds that Routines Could Be Blocking Teacher Improvement
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Segregation by Income Increasing in Classrooms, New Study Finds, May Reflect Influence of Wealthy Parents
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Study: Exposure to Desegregated Schools Often Made Whites Less Tolerant As Adults