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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In-person learning can safely resume as long as schools take steps to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Project-based learning gets kids to explore natural phenomena and solve real-world problems.
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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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Teacher referrals will replace standardized testing. That could disadvantage already-underrepresented students.
New York City schools chancellor Meisha Porter speaks at a press conference.
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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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US suburbs are rapidly diversifying, but students of color often face academic and social hurdles in suburban schools.
Tests shift focus from learning to gaps in scores.
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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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Four experts weigh in on ways to replenish the US teacher workforce and curb burnout.
School boycott picketers march across the Brooklyn Bridge to the Board of Education in 1964.
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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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The whole world saw the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol. How will the textbooks read by America’s students describe what took place?
School police officers walk in a hallway at a middle school.
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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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US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has resigned. Five experts comment on the impact she had on education.
Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the U.S. Capitol.
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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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Layoffs and pay freezes next year would hurt in-class instruction and student progress when it’s most needed.
Cyberattacks against America’s K-12 schools are on the rise.
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America’s public schools often lack the adequate security to protect their students’ most sensitive data from being linked on the web.
Roughly half of public schools have a police presence.
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A former deputy chancellor of New York City schools explains why the police don’t need to patrol the nation’s public schools.
Black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in Advanced Placement courses in computer science.
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Racial disparities in the tech sector begin well before college.