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Boston Schools Escape Takeover but Must Show Improvement to State as District Enters Partnership
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Study: Career and Technical Education Yields Not Just Higher Earnings but Higher Test Scores
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‘Probably the Best News for Federal Accountability Policy, Ever’: New Study Shows No Child Left Behind’s Tough Oversight Led to Big Boost in High School Graduation Rates
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New Florida Study Suggests Public School Students See Some Benefits From Expansion of Private School Vouchers
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Teachers Find Coaching Helpful, but Most Don’t Get Enough of It, Survey Says
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U.S. Economic Activity Could Grow by Tens of Billions of Dollars If We Invested More in Single Mothers Attending College, Report Shows
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How Well Are Teachers Being Taught? New Report Finds Majority of Teacher Prep Programs Thoroughly Instructing Future Educators on the Science of Reading
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Haves and Have-Nots: The Borders Between School Districts Often Mark Extreme Economic Segregation. A New Report Outlines America’s 50 Worst Cases
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Rethinking Remedial Education: New Study Shows College Students Did Better in ‘Corequisite’ Courses Built Around Extra Instruction and Support
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New Study Shows Schools Led by Newark’s Largest Charter Operators Drove Significant and Lasting Gains in Student Test Scores
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New Numbers Show More Colleges Using High School Grades, Not Just Standardized Tests, to Determine If Students Require Remedial Coursework
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14 Charts That Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2019
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Challenging Conventional Wisdom, Report Finds Promising Academic Performance in Chicago’s Growing English Learner Population
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A Decade of Decline at America’s Teacher Preparation Programs: New Numbers Show Enrollment of Aspiring Educators Has Fallen By More Than a Third Since 2010
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U.S. Students’ Scores Stagnant on International Exam, With Widening Achievement Gaps in Math and Reading
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Report: Few Black and Latino Children Are Served by High-Quality State Preschool Programs
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New Research Shows Some 1 Million College Dropouts Returned to School in the Past Five Years and Earned Degrees
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A ‘Disturbing’ Assessment: Sagging Reading Scores, Particularly for Eighth-Graders, Headline 2019’s Disappointing NAEP Results