Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter One of the challenges schools face is that there’s very little evidence directly connecting most pre-K-12 skills

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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

Show audio player It’s a question that keeps coming up: Does Virginia need to invest more in its schools? Or, does Virginia need a school accountability system that’s more transparent, honest and resp

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Updated These are tough times for parents and caregivers. To raise a child in 2024 is to live with a heightened a

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Over years of covering school finance, I keep running up against one nagging question: Does the way we pay for public schools inherently contradict what we understand the goal of public education to b

As I wrote on Wednesday, most school districts are carrying a surplus1 of teachers and will need to find a way to pay for them in the years ahead. That’s true nationally, in 41/50 states, and three ou

In Anchorage, affluent families set off on ski trips and other lengthy vacations, with the assumption that their children can keep up with schoolwork online. In a working-class pocket of Michigan, sch

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I am very concerned about declining trust in science and public health. Although there have been many polls and much talk at conferences, one big thing has been missing: listening to people whose trus

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Plopped in the middle of the school district in Dallas, Texas, is an island that has existed unto itself for deca

Research shows that racial and socioeconomic diversity in the classroom can provide students with a range of cognitive and social benefits. And school policies around the country are beginning to catc

This report was prepared by The Century Foundation at the request of the District of Columbia Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME), with funding from Education Forward DC, as part of a serie

Introduction Repeated police vio­lence against unarmed Black civilians, made more vis­i­ble by the attention focused on George Floyd’s murder in 2020, has led to nationwide calls to overhaul policing

By In 1987, a prominent University of California Los Angeles psychologist published the culmination of his life’s work — and spurred headlines across the globe. Ole Ivar Lovaas claimed that delivering

If you don’t have enough, you sometimes must grow your own. The University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development is helping some Virginia public schools “grow” their own teachers fro

In December, NCES released results of their latest national survey on teacher mobility. They found that, among public school teachers who were working in the 2020-21 school year, 8% moved to a differe

Federal accountability measures under the Every Student Succeeds Act include the outcomes of English learners in evaluating schools for improvement. That’s both in terms of the students’ English-langu

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Two-thirds of U.S. teachers have limited discussions of political and social issues in their classrooms, even in

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter As the chief academic officer of Lubbock Independent School District, which serves approximately 25,000 students