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Some 15 Years After Disastrous Debut, Common Core Math Endures in Many States

While critics say the standards haven鈥檛 improved test scores, advocates say they did something far more important: build an on-ramp to algebra.

Jo Napolitano
Author: Jo Napolitano
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20 years later
Katrina

No Idea Too Radical: Inside New Orleans鈥� Dramatic K-12 Turnaround After Katrina

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina forced the reboot of New Orleans' schools, academics and college-going are up, but racial divides persist.

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
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Let鈥檚 Bring Project-Based Learning and Community Service Into the 21st Century

Inwood: It鈥檚 time to stop wasting students鈥� time with slide-deck projects and checkbox community service and let students engage in the real world.

Dvora Inwood
Author: Dvora Inwood
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cellphone bans

Support for Phone Bans in Schools Is Growing, but Is It Enough to Help Kids?

New York will implement one of the strictest bans on school technologies, but experts are split on if it will help mental health challenges.

Jessika Harkay
Author: Jessika Harkay

From Classroom Drudgery to Joyful Enrichment: The Evolution of Summer School

The pandemic supercharged summer school鈥檚 transformation from remedial academics to learning plus fun 鈥� and now there鈥檚 no going back, experts say.

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld
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The Most Overlooked Classroom In Every District

Carone: Youth sports are considered just a physical outlet for kids. What we鈥檙e overlooking is the depth of learning and development happening there.

Jonathan Carone
Author: Jonathan Carone
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education

Penny Schwinn Drops Out of the Running for Ed Department’s Deputy Role

Some viewed the former Tennessee education commissioner as a bipartisan pick for the post, but past controversies followed her.

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
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special education

For Decades, the Feds Were the Last, Best Hope for Special Ed Kids. What Happens Now?

State-level complaints over disputes with districts have never been as easy as intended. Now, they're all desperate families have left.

Lauren Wagner & Beth Hawkins

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Hurricane Katrina: 20 Years of Change in New Orleans Schools

A T74 series covering the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, its effects, and the recovery of New Orleans鈥� schools. Read all our coverage and essays here.

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future of high school
Future of High School

The Race to Redefine the High School Learning Experience Is On

Schools are rethinking what students should know by the time they graduate, emphasizing tangible, employable skills, rather than test scores and GPAs.

Lauren Camera
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With Welding Tools and a Time Clock, Giving New Mexico Kids Leg Up on the Future

Engineering the Future, Valley High School鈥檚 magnet program, has 6 career tracks that are a model for the district 鈥� and maybe for the entire state

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
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Future of High School
Future of High School

Reflections From a Formerly Disengaged Teen

Student鈥檚 view: I used to sit in the back of class, trying my best to avoid eye contact with my teacher, but now I sit in the front row every day.

Hannah Askew
Author: Hannah Askew
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Internships
Future of High School

‘This Isn’t School’: Teaching Work Etiquette to Summer Interns

Kansas City teens learn 'soft skills' 鈥� communication, punctuality, teamwork 鈥� along with how to do jobs as ProX summer interns.

Patrick O鈥橠onnell
Author: Patrick O鈥橠onnell
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Why States Must Lead on Education R&D, How They Can Start Today

Joe, Bishop-Root and Colwell: To prepare students for the opportunities and challenges ahead, states must prioritize research and development.

Jilliam Joe, Sarah Bishop-Root & Leslie Colwell
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commentary

Let鈥檚 Bring Project-Based Learning and Community Service Into the 21st Century

Inwood: It鈥檚 time to stop wasting students鈥� time with slide-deck projects and checkbox community service and let students engage in the real world.

Dvora Inwood
Author: Dvora Inwood
commentary
commentary

How a Federal Seed Money Program Has Powered Ed Tech Innovations

Tucker & Metz: Small Business Innovation Research-fostered products have reached more than 130 million students and teachers. Now, program is at risk.

Eric Tucker & Edward Metz
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Katrina

The Inconvenient Success of New Orleans Schools

Gupta: How the most dramatic education transformation in modern America became too uncomfortable for anyone to talk about.

Ravi Gupta
Author: Ravi Gupta
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Missouri

Women Dropping Out of Missouri Workforce Is An Economic Red Alert. How to Fix It

Doyle: A recent drop in women鈥檚 workforce participation is a blinking red light for women and our economy.

Wendy Doyle
California
California

Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Book Club Fights Children’s Literacy Crisis and Trump

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, first partner of California, formed a book club to address the children鈥檚 literacy crisis while saving libraries.

Nadra Nittle, The 19th
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Florida District Leans Into Science of Reading Starting in Early Childhood

Hammond: Educators and nonprofits cannot overlook the fact that what children experience from birth to age 5 can make or break literacy instruction.

Barbara Hammond
Author: Barbara Hammond
Early Care and Education
Early Care and Education

Lessons From the Military for Solving North Carolina鈥檚 Child Care Crisis

'The military understood very early the link between people getting to work and child care.'

Katie Dukes, EducationNC
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Child Tax Credit

Who Are the Kids and Families Left Out of the Updated Child Tax Credit?

A change to the Child Tax Credit requires children and at least one parent to have a Social Security Number. Here鈥檚 what that could mean for families.

Rebecca Gale
Author: Rebecca Gale
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鈥楥ognitive Science,鈥� All the Rage in British Schools, Fails to Register in U.S.

Educators blame this 鈥榬everse Beatles effect鈥� on America鈥檚 decentralized system and grad schools that are often hostile to research.

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo

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College, Career, Learning Recovery: How America's high schools are evolving for the next generation of teenagers.

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社区黑料 Explains: How Katrina Transformed New Orleans Schools

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Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Teachers Union Reaches Tentative Agreement with School District

Carly Sitrin
Analysis

7,000 New Orleans Teachers Lost Jobs After Katrina. Here鈥檚 How the City Rebuilt

Ravi Gupta
Author: Ravi Gupta
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On Katrina鈥檚 20th Anniversary, Patrick Dobard Revisits NOLA Reboot

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
U.S. Department of Education

Trump Administration Takes on School Emails as Parental Rights Issue

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
U.S. Department of Education

Trump Penalties in Virginia Transgender Cases Offer Fodder in Governor鈥檚 Race

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Maine

Maine Schools Still Receiving Federal Funds, Despite Trump鈥檚 Threats Over Transgender Policy

Eesha Pendharkar
Texas

Beloved Texas School Programs Got Caught in the Middle of Federal Funding Cuts

Jaden Edison, The Texas Tribune
michigan

Will the Detroit School District’s Enrollment Efforts Pay Off?

Hannah Dellinger, Chalkbeat
Pennsylvania

Why Philadelphia Teachers are Ready to Strike

Nadra Nittle, The 19th
learning loss

K-12 Chronic Absenteeism Rates Down From Peak, But Remain Persistently High

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld
California

Report: L.A. County鈥檚 Failure to Educate Incarcerated Youth is 鈥楽ystemic

Betty M谩rquez Rosales, EdSource
Teachers unions

Court Temporarily Blocks Ban on Bargaining by Defense Department Teachers Unions

Lauren Wagner
Author: Lauren Wagner
Texas

Texas’ Ten Commandments Blocked in 11 School Districts

Jaden Edison, Eleanor Klibanoff & Alejandro Serrano
School Supplies

Parents, Teachers Go Into Debt for School Supplies

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Podcast

Exploring the Evolution of New Orleans鈥� School System in the 20 Years Since Hurricane Katrina
Podcast

Key Lessons from the Fight Over Which New Orleans Schools Would Reopen After Katrina 鈥� and Who Would Run Them
New York City

After Weeks of Delays, NYC Teaching Fellows Finally Begin Receiving Paychecks
U.S. Department of Education

Education Department Calls Back Civil Rights, Some DEI Employees

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
commentary

How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance to Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Vladimir Kogan
Author: Vladimir Kogan
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