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Student Mental Health: From Buses to Cafeterias, How All School Workers Can Help

Expert: 69 years after Brown v Board, Enduring Inequalities at America’s Schools

Interview: Researcher Anthony Bryk on Chicago Schools’ ‘Radical’ New Direction

Can This School Board Be Saved? Author AJ Crabill Has a 5-Point Plan

Idaho’s 18-Year-Old School Board Member on Youth Voice And Right-Wing Extremism

‘We Stole 5 Years from Kids’: A Houston Board Member on Looming State Takeover

Exclusive 74 Interview: Bill Gates Calls U.S. Education a ‘Challenged Space’

74 Interview: Psychologist Deborah Offner on Educators as First Responders

The 74 Interview: Shannon Watts on the Power Moms Wield to Stop School Shootings

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Former Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza New Head of Democrats for Education Reform

Q&A: Rocketship Schools Co-Founder Reflects on 15 Years of Empowering Parents

How Bridges to Science Aims to Close the Diversity Gaps in STEM Education

Q&A: Education Expert on Tutoring, Learning Recovery & Schools’ Staffing Woes

Q&A: Why Virtual Learning Will Thrive Long After the Pandemic

‘It’s Erasing History’: Daryl Scott on Black Studies and the AP Clash in Florida

74 Interview: New KIPP CEO Shavar Jeffries on Students’ Post-Pandemic Needs

Q&A: Khan Academy’s Sal Khan on COVID’s Staggering Impact on Student Math Skills

Elliot Regenstein on Writing an Ed Reform Book That Doesn’t Alienate Teachers

How Educators Can Help Kids Make Sense of Tyre Nichols’s Death

Idaho’s New School Chief Lays Out Her Bold Plan to Change ‘Literally Everything’

74 Interview: Meet Minneapolis’s First Autistic School Board Member

Former Dallas Supe Hinojosa Speaks Out on COVID Fights & His Political Future

Meet Skye, the 12-Year-Old Reporter Covering Georgia’s Runoff Election

DHS Sec. Mayorkas: Relationships, Not Tech, Central to Creating Safe Schools

There Are Just 90 LGBTQ School Board Members. Half Were Threatened, Harassed

School Improvement Guru Justin Cohen on Teacher-Led School Innovation

Torn Apart: 13-Year-Old Author Estela Juarez on New Book & Mother’s Deportation

Ending ‘Child Poverty Surveillance’: NYU Professor On Schools & Child Welfare

Video — Florida Teen Invents World’s First Sustainable Electric Vehicle Motor

Watch: ‘Corn Kid’ Creator Talks Lessons Learned via Hundreds of Child Interviews

Beyond It’s Corn: ‘Recess Therapy’ Creator on the Secret of Following Kids’ Joy

Author Richard Reeves on the Boys’ Education Problem We Don’t Like to Talk About

Q&A: TED Fellow Heejae Lim on Using Tech to Strengthen Family-School Engagement

The Unintended Consequence of Brown v. Board: A ‘Brain Drain’ of Black Educators

Harvard Professor Martin West on This Week’s Harrowing NAEP Results

Former COVID Data Whistleblower, Now Congressional Candidate With Bold K-12 Plan

Q&A: Education Reporter Anya Kamenetz on COVID Failures & Students’ Stolen Year

74 Interview: Seeing the Nuances Behind the Chronic Absenteeism Crisis

Harvard Economist Offers Gloomy Forecast on Reversing Pandemic Learning Loss

Paymon Rouhanifard on Boston, Tribalism and the Dangers of COVID ‘Groupthink’

74 Interview: Cybersecurity Expert Levin on the Harms of Student Data Hacks

School Gunmen Don’t Just ‘Snap,’ Says Author Who Urges Better Threat Assessment

‘Provider of Last Resort’: Superintendent’s Last Plea for Help for Her Students

74 Interview: 3 Generations, One Navajo Family’s Indian Boarding School Legacy

Q&A: David Brooks on Schools, Society’s Divides & How ‘Weavers’ Can Heal America

Q&A: Jonathan Chait on Democrats' Divide Over Education, School Innovation

Charter School Co-Founders on Dual Language for All

Mike Magee Leaving Chiefs to Be New Minerva University President

Interview: Howard’s Daryl Scott on the Wars over Teaching American History

AZ’s Beth Lehr on a ‘Vilified’ Teachers and Other Pandemic Fallout

'Beyond Our Control': What the Pandemic Taught a College Freshman About Empathy

FReadom Fighters Co-Founder on Why School Librarians Matter

Parent Liaison Toni Baker on Pandemic Loneliness, Cherishing ‘the Little Things’

Nashville Parent Advocate Sonya Thomas Asks ‘What Has Changed?’

LA's New School Chief on COVID Learning Recovery & Reversing Plunging Enrollment

Black Astronaut Bernard Harris on ‘Terrestrial Mission’ to Boost STEM Education

Q&A: School Chief Talks 700 Days of COVID Disruptions, Decries Failed Leadership

UFT’s Mulgrew on the Fighting City Hall and How the Pandemic ‘Made us Stronger’

School Chief Recalls Pandemic Fights with Texas Governor and Chicago Union

Interview: Robin Lake on Preparing for a ‘Decade of Work Ahead’ Post-Pandemic

Roza on the ‘Awakening’ in Parents and Struggles of Being a ‘Data Person’

Interview: Pollster David Paleologos on School Politics in 2022

Aaliyah Samuel on Getting ‘Back to the Middle’ on Social-Emotional Learning

Sr. White House Advisor on Accessing School COVID Testing Amid ‘Supply Crisis’

Interview: Andrew Rotherham on the Virginia Governor’s Race

Moms for Liberty Co-Founder on Parent ‘Warriors’ Who Challenge School Boards

Superintendent Michael Thomas on Changing a White School System

TX Valedictorian on Viral Speech, New Book on Ignored Abortion Stories

Civics Ed Leader on Why She’s Hopeful, Why Teaching Civics is Patriotic

Interview: Author Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder on Classroom Indoctrination

NYC Chinatown Principal Readies for School Year

‘Everything’s at Stake’: Dallas Supt. on Masking Showdown & Academic Recovery

Author Amanda Ripley on New Film, the Pandemic, and Lost Trust in our Schools

Teen “Jay Jay” Patton Destigmatizes Coding, Helps Kids with Incarcerated Parents

Researcher Tom Loveless on How Common Core Failed

74 Interview: CT. Sen. Chris Murphy on Banning Federal Funds for Campus Cops

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