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‘It Doesn’t Feel Safe Going to School’: Students Reflect After Texas Shooting

Asher Lehrer-Small

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

Joshua Parrish

Does Your School Have a ‘Slander’ Account?

Asher Lehrer-Small

Three Pfizer Shots 80% Effective Against Omicron in Toddlers, Trial Data Show

Asher Lehrer-Small

Districts Recommend Masks — But Don’t Require Them — as COVID Counts Rise

Asher Lehrer-Small

4-Day School Week? Rural Districts Adjusting to Teacher Burnout, Low Attendance

Joshua Parrish

Nonprofit Builds Community While Helping First-Gen Students Reach College

Asher Lehrer-Small

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

The 74

Half of States Set to Ban Abortion Have No Sex Ed Requirements

Asher Lehrer-Small

Outlawing School Segregation Spurred Gains for CA Chicano Students, Study Finds

Asher Lehrer-Small

Why Schools in One State Are Asking Students For Ideas on Best Way to Use Funds

Joshua Parrish

Bloomberg’s $50M Plan to Give NYC Charter Students a ‘Summer Boost’

Asher Lehrer-Small

Panic in Pennsylvania Schools Amid Declining Teaching Candidates & Applications

Joshua Parrish

One Key Tool For Schools in Confronting COVID Learning Loss: Peer Tutors

Meg McIntyre

Losing a ‘Godsend to the Bronx’: Parents Push Back Against DOE Shakeup

Asher Lehrer-Small

Analysis: For America’s Future, Key STEM Skills Won’t Be Learned in Classrooms

Stephanie J. Hull, Jim Clark, Jennifer Sirangelo, Suzanne McCormick & Ron Ottinger

As Mask Mandate Lifts, Parents Divided Over Their New Choice

Asher Lehrer-Small

Masks Optional in NYC Schools Starting Monday, Mayor Says

Asher Lehrer-Small

New Education Law Would Require Measuring of Student Learning Loss Due to COVID

Joshua Parrish

NY State Underreported Abuse & Neglect Allegations Made by NYC School Staff

Asher Lehrer-Small

Removing Masks From School? One By One, States Unveil Plans to Return to Normal

The 74

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

Asher Lehrer-Small

CDC: Schools May Drop Masks When COVID Risk is Low or Medium

Asher Lehrer-Small

Young Love in Time of COVID—Students Talk How Pandemic Has Changed Relationships

Asher Lehrer-Small

Pfizer Postpones Request that FDA Authorize Doses for Kids Under 5

Asher Lehrer-Small

Scenes From a Pandemic—Photos From 24 Months of COVID Inside One School District

Meghan Gallagher

COVID’s Missing Students: Plummeting Enrollment at New York City Public Schools

Joshua Parrish

Vax Up, Masks Down: MD, MA Look to ‘Off-Ramp’ Face Coverings in School

Asher Lehrer-Small

MacKenzie Scott’s Big Education Bet: $133 Million to Prevent Student Dropouts

The 74

A Radical Proposal to Help Students Recover the Learning They Lost Amid COVID

The 74

Over 9,600 NYC Students Reported to Child Protective Services Since Aug. 2020

Asher Lehrer-Small

End of K-12 Contact Tracing? Some Schools Now Watching Symptoms, Not Exposure

Asher Lehrer-Small

Across the US Advocates Aim to Create Constitutional Right for Quality Education

The 74

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

Asher Lehrer-Small

How ‘Saturday Accelerators’ Are Helping Students Repair COVID Learning Loss

Joshua Parrish

Ask the Doctor: Navigating the “New Math” of Omicron in Schools

Asher Lehrer-Small

Reopening Struggle Revived as Thousands of Schools Close and COVID Cases Explode

Asher Lehrer-Small

Challenging 5 Big Assumptions About Education: How 232 Schools Are Innovating

Chelsea Waite

One State Is Using ‘Saturday Academies’ to Address Students’ COVID Learning Loss

Joshua Parrish

Watch: NYC’s New Schools Chief on His ‘North Star’ for America’s Top District

The 74

NM Requires K-12 Staff Booster Shots as Omicron Fears Fuel Vaccination Spike

Asher Lehrer-Small

Facing a Substitute Teacher ‘Crisis,’ Utah Schools Approve Incentive Pay

Joshua Parrish

Want to Improve Teacher Diversity in Classrooms? First Transform School Culture

Laura Waters

As Threat of Omicron Variant Looms, School Closures Continue Ticking Upward

Asher Lehrer-Small

From School Board Recalls to Ballot Upsets, a New Era for Education Politics?

The 74

How a YA Oral-Sex Scene Touched Off Texas' Latest Culture War

Brian Lopez & Cassandra Pollock

Reviving Student Learning Post-COVID: One School’s Strategy for Reading Recovery

Rebecca Griesbach

COVID Shutdown: How College Students Cope With Halted Study Abroad Programs

Jewél Jackson

Analysis: How Schools Can Close Troubling Racial Gaps in Advanced Courses

Roby Chatterji

School Staffing Shortages — But Not Everywhere. New Data Shows Where It’s Worse

Asher Lehrer-Small

Learning Pod Teachers Say They Don’t Want to Return to Traditional Classrooms

Steven Weiner

Reversing Students’ COVID Slide: Experts Eyeing Math Skills & Learning Recovery

The 74

Post-COVID Focus on STEM: Preparing America’s Students to Succeed After Pandemic

The 74

Teacher Bonuses to Double as Tutors: One State’s Plan to Help Students Catch Up

Joshua Parrish

Blended Learning: Build More Resilient Schools — By Using Every Tool in Our Kit

Julie Young

New Hearing in Epic 27-Year Court Fight Over Funding of North Carolina Schools

Alex Granados

Why The Sudden Surge in School Board Recalls? (And Why Are So Few Successful?)

Kevin Mahnken

Eric Adams Is NYC’s Next Mayor. 3 Key Education Issues He’ll Face

Asher Lehrer-Small

Election Day & Schools: 5 Big Education Storylines to Watch in Off-Year Races

The 74

‘Chronically’ Absent: Why Are So Many Students Missing Class Amid the Pandemic?

The 74

Texas Legislature Demands Schools Confirm Use of Books on Race and Sexuality

Brian Lopez

What Schools Can Learn from Learning Pods About Teacher-Student Relationships

Lisa Chu

Pfizer Shot 91% Effective at Preventing COVID in Children Ages 5-11

Asher Lehrer-Small

NYC Won’t Say How Many Kids Are in School This Year. New Fears About Mass Exodus

Asher Lehrer-Small

Major Texas District Ends School Mask Requirements Amid Legal Fights

Molly Smith

White House Unveils Plans for Mass Vaccination Effort of 5- to 11-Year Olds

Linda Jacobson

New Texas Law to Restrict Transgender Student Athletes’ Sports Participation

Allyson Waller

Over 100 Black Teachers on How to Build Culturally Affirming Schools

Asher Lehrer-Small

A ‘Whole-Person’ Approach to Education and Healthcare: What Does It Look Like?

Emily Thomas & Alli Lindenberg

District Boundaries Leave Quality Schools Out of Reach for Low-Income Families

Linda Jacobson

‘Community Schools’ Helping Kids During COVID, Both In and Out of the Classroom

Melanie Bavaria

5 Decades of Eroding Support for Special Education in Wisconsin

Heather Graves & Lea Kopke

COVID in Texas: Schools See More Cases in 2 Months Than Entire Last School Year

Brian Lopez

A Key to the Future of Community Colleges — and Our Economy: Adult Learners

Emily Thomas

Exclusive Data: Absenteeism Surged Among English Learners During Pandemic

Asher Lehrer-Small

Spy Tech Followed Students Home During Remote Learning — and Now Won’t Leave

The 74

Students Facing Eviction: Advocates Warn Schools Not Part of Biden Rent Relief

Linda Jacobson

CDC Director OKs Booster Shots for Teachers and Other Frontline Workers

Asher Lehrer-Small

Pandemic Innovations: Why Rural Students Are Thriving in Virtual College Prep

Javeria Salman

Federal Government Launches Investigation of Texas’ Ban on Student Mask Mandates

Brian Lopez

COVID Shots Safe and Effective for Children Ages 5 to 11

Asher Lehrer-Small

From Tutors to ‘Competency-Based’ Tests: States Prioritize School Relief Funds

Anna Pogarcic

Why Community Colleges Are Using Their COVID Relief Funds to Erase Student Debt

Kate Elizabeth Queram

Only 5 of 100 Top Districts Planned Robust Remote Learning for Quarantined Kids

Christine Pitts & Bree Dusseault

Did the Pandemic Change School Board Meetings Forever?

Darcy Sprague

Student Learning Pods — From Crisis Response to Sustainable Solution?

Alice Opalka

No More Cops in Schools: How the Pandemic Delayed Push to Rethink Student Safety

Eileen Grench

Iowa Schools Move to Shore Up Student Mental Health Services

Leah McBride Mensching

Repair a Home. Sell a Home. Pay for College. Repeat.

Carrick Reddin

These Are the States That Passed Laws Restricting the Teaching of Racial History

Brooke LePage

Boarding School History Underpins Court Ruling on Native Education

Shaun Griswold

New Pandemic Child Care Fix: Employers Are Paying Employees’ Friends to Babysit

Chabeli Carrazana

Delta School Surge: More TX Kids Have COVID This Month Than Any Time Last Year

Brian Lopez & Kalley Huang

Reopening Schools — Safely: 5 Communities That Did It Right

Betsy Ladyzhets

97% of NC Survey Respondents Never Taught About State’s Eugenics Past

Asher Lehrer-Small

90% of Kids in This City Are Behind in Math. Can a New Tutoring Initiative Help?

Laura Waters

The Science Behind Keeping Schools Safe During the Delta Variant Surge

The 74

Rural Texas Towns Shut Down Schools to Keep COVID-19 From Overwhelming Community

Brian Lopez

After Pfizer Approval, New School Vax Rules; All NYC Educators Have Til Sept. 27

The 74

Texas School Cancels Classes After State Passes Controversial Social Studies Law

Jason Kao
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