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

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‘Nation’s Report Card’: Two Decades of Growth Wiped Out by Two Years of Pandemic

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L.A. Teachers Union Files Labor Complaint Against Voluntary Extra School Days

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A New Initiative to Tackle Education’s Big Problems

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Study: San Antonio Charter Schools Lifted Student Achievement Prior to Pandemic

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‘Too Good to Be True’: NH Gives Students $1,000 for Tutoring — Yet Sign-Ups Lag

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The ‘Mass Exodus’ of Teachers Never Happened, Paper Argues

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Many Remote Learning Options Shutting Down as School Reopens for Fall 2022

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Virginia’s New Education Scores Show Students Lagging Behind Pre-Pandemic Levels

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‘Treat This As You Would Any Illness’: Schools Across U.S. Downgrade COVID Rules

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New Data: Was 2022’s Summer Learning ‘Explosion’ Enough To Reverse COVID Losses?

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COVID Slide: As Half of Students Fail Annual Tests, Pleas For Lawmakers to Act

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Gifted Summer Programs Skew White & Wealthy. Not Baltimore’s — And It’s Free

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Could Polio Outbreak Put Kids at Risk? State Vaccination & Exemption Rates Vary

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Rausch: 10 Steps Toward Measuring Great Schools During and after the Pandemic

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Kids Catch Up Best With Grade-Level Work — But Keep Getting Easier Assignments

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Brown: Students Are Making Modest Learning Gains. That’s Not Good Enough

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Schools Brace For Monkeypox Outbreak With Little Guidance to Guide Response

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CDC’s New School Guidance Scraps Quarantines, Lifts ‘Test to Stay’ Recommendation

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Louisiana State University Expands Programs to Stem Nursing Shortage

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Teens Have Changed Their Higher Ed Plans — Survey Shows They May Never Go Back

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New CDC Guidance Could Be Gamechanger on Restrictions as Students Return to School

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Educators’ Poor Morale Matters, Even If They Don’t Quit. Here’s Why

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How Norway Cut Student Absences By 25% — And Why The Policy Is No Silver Bullet

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CDC Eyes New School Rules on COVID Testing, Spacing, Quarantines

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New Data: Despite Progress, a Third of Students Finished Year Below Grade Level

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Educator’s View: How My School’s Care Corps Helps Our Students and Community

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Lessons from TFA’s Virtual Tutoring Program in Battling Learning Loss

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For America’s Children, Screen Time is Here to Stay

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122 Teachers Speak: Surviving Student Learning Loss, Behavior Challenges

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Poll Shows Not All Students & Teachers Are Eager to Go Back to In-Person School

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Young Children’s Vaccination Rates May Have Already Peaked

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74 Interview: Seeing the Nuances Behind the Chronic Absenteeism Crisis

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Rural TX Districts Struggling to Attract Teachers are Switching to 4-Day Weeks

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As Districts Spend Relief Funds, Auditors Say ‘Business is Booming’

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Iowa District: 5-Year-Old Refused to Wear Mask, Saying ‘My Body, My Choice’

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COVID Classroom Recovery: California Has Spent Little to Address Learning Loss

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‘Long Road to Recovery’: Math, Reading Scores Remain Below Pre-Pandemic Levels

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How Summer Camps & Afterschool Programs Can Step Up to Stem Learning Loss

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Student Voice: Pandemic Attendance Crisis is About More Than COVID

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Harvard Economist Offers Gloomy Forecast on Reversing Pandemic Learning Loss

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Claiborne & Stockwell: Not Enough Tutors to Go Around? College Students Can Help

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Most Students Who Left College During COVID Want to Return — But Many Can’t

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Exclusive: GreatSchools to Omit Pandemic School Testing Data From Its Ratings

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Tennessee Students Rebound to Pre-Pandemic Reading Proficiency

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Zoom-Based Program Links Young Students With One-on-One Reading Tutors — Right in Their Own Classrooms

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Greene: For Students to Get Back to Normal, They Need Support, Not Punishment

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After a Decade of Gains, Latino Students Suffer Outsized Losses Amid Pandemic

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Adams: Public Funds for Religious Schools? It’s Been Happening in NYC for Years

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Teaching Kids to Read — Not Guess. Free Summer Program Launches to Help Parents

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How Blue States & Red States Use COVID Relief Funds Differently to Aid Schools

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Education Dept’s R&D Arm Faces a Dire Budget Shortfall — Just as We Need It Most

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Study: Masking in School Had Little or No Effect on Student COVID Cases

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Short on Teachers, Michigan Schools Try to Grow Their Own

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Texas STAAR Results Improve in Math and Reading After Pandemic Dips

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New Study: Black, Special Ed Students Punished at Greater Rate Through Pandemic

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COVID & College: Indiana Enrollment Declines, as Only 53% of HS Grads Continue

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Mental Health, Teacher Shortages, Uvalde: Students Talk 2022’s Key School Issues

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Youngkin Says Report on ‘Honesty Gap’ Points to Decline in Virginia Schools

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Pandemic Babies Are Facing Speech & Social Development Delays. 5 Ways to Help

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As Mental Health Crisis Rages, Michigan Schools Work to Boost Kids’ Connection

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New Ken Burns PBS Documentary Offers Raw Look at the Youth Mental Health Crisis

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In a Year of ‘Abysmal’ Student Behavior, Ed Dept. Seeks Discipline Overhaul

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New Learning Loss Calculator Estimates Costs of Catching Kids Up In 8K Districts

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Fuller: L.A. Offers Lessons for Helping Kids Recover from COVID Learning Loss

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

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Smith: Some Clues to What States Will Do When School COVID Funding Runs Out

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COVID & Schools: Michigan Aims to Invest $280 Million in Large-Scale Tutoring Plan

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WATCH: Teachers Reflect on Leaving Classrooms to Launch Microschools Amid COVID

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FDA Recommends COVID Vaccines for Young Kids; 3rd Pfizer Dose May Be Key

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Adams: What NYC’s New Remote-Only Schools Could Mean for Educational Choice

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Analysis: Many Districts Doing Less This Summer to Make Up for Lost Learning

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Student Voice: Graduating After a Third COVID-Disrupted School Year

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FDA Authorizes Moderna and Pfizer Vaccines for Kids as Young as 6 Months

Asher Lehrer-Small

WATCH: An Inner City Teacher Helps His Community Capture Hope & Promise in Art

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Replay: Why Teachers Are Leaving Classrooms Amid COVID to Launch Microschools

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Survey: Pandemic Learning Loss is Teachers’ Top Source of Job-Related Stress

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E20: Does Banning Things Actually Keep Children Safe in Schools?

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How 100 Large and Urban Districts Are (and Aren’t) Engaging Stakeholders

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Suing Schools Over Vaccine Rules? Why One State’s Legislature Passed New Law

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Many Kids Who Had COVID Don’t Have Antibodies to Protect Against Omicron

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NJ Public School Enrollment Dropped 18K Since Start of COVID, State Data Shows

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No More Regular Summer School: District Sending Indy K-7 Kids to Learning Labs

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A New Children’s Rights Movement: Why Now Is the Time to Demand More For Kids

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Make Teaching a True Pathway to the Middle Class for Young Latino Teachers

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COVID Vaccinations for Toddlers to Start After Juneteenth, White House Predicts

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Vaccines for Children Under 5 Could Be Available as Soon as This Month

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Watch: How an Island Teacher Builds Community Bridges Through Her Hawaii School

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Florida’s Alarming Reading Scores: Third-Grade Test Shows Only 1 in 4 Proficient

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New Cleveland Mayor Demands Faster Learning Recovery for Students After Pandemic

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E19: Are Older Students Fixed in Their Abilities?

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Idaho to Offer Learning Loss Grants Directly to Parents to Help Kids Rebound

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Amid COVID, Closures & Zoom, a Teacher Fights to Preserve School Relationships

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As Tragedy Unfolded, TX House Discussed Troubling State of Student Mental Health

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Does Your School Have a ‘Slander’ Account?

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