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Study: Exposure to Desegregated Schools Often Made Whites Less Tolerant As Adults
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Caught in a Financial ‘Triple Squeeze,’ Districts Could See Annual Costs of $2,500 Per Student to Address Pandemic-Related Learning Loss
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Number of Districts Safe for In-Person Learning Shrinking, New Study Suggests
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Research Shows Students Benefiting From Arts Field Trips, But Will They Recede After COVID?
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Research Shows Changing Schools Can Make or Break a Student, But the Wave of Post-COVID Mobility May Challenge the Systems in Ways We’ve Never Seen
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16 Charts that Changed the Way We Thought About America’s Schools This Year
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Five Years On, ESSA’s Hallmark Flexibility May Be Undermining Equity, Report Finds
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Lost Learning, Lost Students: COVID Slide Not as Steep as Predicted, NWEA Study Finds — But 1 in 4 Kids Was Missing from Fall Exams
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School Reopening ‘Churn’ Distracting District Leaders from Focusing on Improved Remote Education & Student Engagement, Researchers Find
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Report: District-Charter Funding Gap Grows to 33 Percent Less Per Student; 12 Cities Provide ‘A Trivial Amount’ or ‘No Funding’ for Charters
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As Coronavirus Cases Surge, New Antibody Study Shows Young Children May Be Less Likely to Spread Virus; Could Spell Good News for In-Person Elementary and Middle School Learning
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Twelfth-Grade NAEP Scores Offer More Bad News for Reading, Stagnation in Math
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Politics, Not Science, is Driving School Reopening Decisions to a ‘Really Dangerous’ Degree, Research Suggests
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Survey: More than Half of Teachers Felt Less Successful After COVID-19
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Study: In 28 Districts, Middle and High School Students Lose More Than a Year of Learning Due to Suspensions
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Students Could Have Lost as Much as 183 Days of Learning Time in Reading, 232 Days in Math During First Four Months of Largely Virtual Schooling
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In One of the Few States to Mandate Personalized Learning, Coordinators Key to Keeping Vermont Students Engaged Before — and Now During — the Pandemic
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Using Tutors to Combat COVID Learning Loss: New Research Shows That Even Lightly Trained Volunteers Drive Academic Gains