Schools Alexandria City Public Schools' Standards of Learning results show improvements or similar results in the core subjects. Posted Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 9:42 am ET Alexandria City Public Schools s
Education Department Enables Deployment of Industry-Leading Platform at Applicable School Districts Regardless of Enrollment, Income, or Size of Tax Base PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ze
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Abstract In his dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote, “Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” Racial conservatives have
Arlington School Board members seem fully committed to implementing a stopgap strategy for limiting student-phone accessibility in class prior to the start the 2024-25 school year, now just weeks away
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The bottom line is troubling. Scores on an international math test fell a record 15 points between 2018 and 2022 — the equivalent of students losing three-quarters of a school year of learning. That f
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Is there a shortage of special education teachers in America’s public schools? If so, why? And how can policymakers fix it? The first question sounds like an easy one. Yes, there is a shortage of spec
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Donate Subscribe Contact Us Donate Subscribe Custom Search Sort by: Relevance Relevance Date Quick search above or Advanced Search ☰ Adult Education Adult education on K-12 campuses is so much more th
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Virginia’s board of education has approved a new system for how the state measures school success. The board has been looking at overhauling the system since 2022 in response to concerns from Gov. Gle
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Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Eighth graders remain a full school year behind pre-pandemic levels in math and reading, according to new test re
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Central Falls, where nearly half of students are English learners, offers 2 extra hours of language instruction daily. That adds up to roughly 50 days By Central Falls, Rhode Island It’s 3:45 p.m., an
I was asked recently about the political prospects for merit pay for teachers. I said that I was generally optimistic about the prospects of extra compensation for geographic or subject-area shortage
In 35 states, students have a right to attend high school until at least age 20; a 74 investigation revealed a 19-year-old was repeatedly turned away. “He is not going to achieve the end result: He is
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David Firestone, an associate special ed teacher in New York City, is in his final semester of a master’s program at the Hunter College School of Education. Yet he still feels like he hasn’t learned o
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, and I want to return to a point I made last fall. Namely, based on survey results it appears that teacher morale is bad and getting worse. At the same, schools have mor
Last week Matthew Kraft flagged a new report from The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) calculating the “return on investment” for different types of education credentials. As Kraf
Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. Ahead of Teacher Appreciation Week, the Biden-Harris administration has unveiled comprehensive initiatives to bolster the teach
MANCHESTER, Conn. — When Raymond Dolphin became assistant principal of a middle school in Connecticut two years ago, it was clear to him that the kids were not all right. The problem was cellphones. S
More than half of Prince George’s County public schools will shift their starting and ending times by up to 15 minutes in the next academic year as part of ongoing changes that school officials say co
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