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The Achievement Gap Has Driven Education Reform for Decades. Now Some Are Calling It a Racist Idea
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Amid Pandemic Downturn, New Research Shows Great Recession Hurt Student Test Scores, Widened Achievement Gaps & Reduced College Attendance
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New Study Reveals ‘Devastating Learning Loss’ for Youngest Children, Showing That Preschool Participation Has Fallen by Half During Pandemic — and May Not Improve in the Fall
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Student Survey: Despite High Numbers Saying Their Schools Were Assigning Work and They Were Completing it, Only Half Said They Were Really Learning During Pandemic
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New Study Does Not Find Stark Differences in How District, Charter and Private Schools Responded to COVID-19 Crisis
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Which Schools Beat the Odds? In National Study, Researchers Find Top Results for Newark, Boston and Pittsburgh
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2 New Surveys Find Teachers Stressed by Shutdown, Unable to Contact Students and Feeling Their Confidence Drop
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Analysis: New Study of the Principal Pipeline Shows Women, African Americans Wait Longer, Are Promoted Less Often Than White Men
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A New Study Ties Anti-Bullying Laws to a Reduction in Suicide — but Boys Were Mostly Unaffected
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New Research Predicts Steep COVID Learning Losses Will Widen Already Dramatic Achievement Gaps Within Classrooms
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Despite May’s Slight Economic Rebound, Working Students Continue to Face Shattering Unemployment Numbers
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EdBuild Report: As Pandemic Threatens School Budgets, Researchers Urge Neighboring Districts to Pool Resources
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Rich School, Poor School: As Recession Looms, Test Results Show That Affluent Students Score Higher in Financial Literacy
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Record-Breaking Coronavirus Job Losses Devastate the Least Educated — and Have Already Displaced Highest Degree Holders Worse Than the Great Recession
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NAEP Social Studies Scores Show a Downturn in Geography, U.S. History. But Are the Headlines ‘Hyped’?
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Coronavirus Could Deliver Disastrous Setback to Public Pre-K, Study Warns
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College Costs May Be a Top Concern Amid COVID-19 Economic Crash, but Here’s Why Picking a Cheaper School Now May Actually Leave Students Worse Off
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Study: Career and Technical Education Yields Not Just Higher Earnings but Higher Test Scores