With distrust for school officials prevalent during the pandemic, an educational historian calls attention to the need for officials to have more positive relations with educators and parents.
Many parents have had to play the role of a substitute math teacher during the pandemic.
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Parents thrust into the role of math teacher can take simple steps to help their children understand math better and dread it less.
Money from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan could go toward much-needed improvements to crumbling public school buildings.
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The unprecedented wave of federal funding could be used to modernize public schools – the second-largest public infrastructure in our nation, behind only highways.
In-person learning can start as long as schools operate safely, says the CDC.
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Students who took part in the program scored 8% higher on the state science test than students who received traditional instruction, and demonstrated greater social and emotional learning.
New York City public school students attend a meeting with school board officials in January 2020.
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Meisha Ross Porter is the new chancellor of New York City’s public schools. A scholar of the politics of education touches on her background and what lies ahead.
A majority of Americans – including people of color – live in suburbs.
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Despite the disruption and challenges of COVID-19, standardized tests for America’s students are expected to proceed this spring or fall. But what will the tests really show?
U.S. Secretary of Education nominee Miguel Cardona testifies during his confirmation hearing.
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In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.
American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021.
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The rise in the popularity of Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first National Youth Poet Laureate, represents a prime opportunity for educators to use spoken word poetry in the classroom.
When they moved instruction online, many schools began distributing grab-and-go lunches.
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It helped that school food service staff quickly changed their preparation, packaging and distribution methods to feed students who were no longer eating in cafeterias.
Anne Frank House Executive Director Ronald Leopold, left, presents pages of Anne Frank’s diary.
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Information about the Holocaust may be easy to find online, but the best sites offer artifacts and authentic accounts from people who survived the experience, a Holocaust scholar argues.
Rioters clash with police as they try to enter the Capitol building.
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A Florida sheriff has been using student records to flag students ‘destined’ for crime. Now a congressman is calling for a federal inquiry.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during the daily briefing on COVID-19 on March 27, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
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Teachers shouldn’t avoid this topic, no matter how uncomfortable it might make them to discuss it with children and teens.
Most states have avoided deep education budget cuts this year, but they project revenue shortfalls for the coming school year.
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