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5 Strategies to Ensure Your Edtech Tools Deliver on Their Promises
Evaluating and validating tech tools takes time and energy — resources that are always in short supp...
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In Time of Campus Turmoil, More Colleges Try Teaching Civil Discourse
As Alexandra Delano prepared to moderate a civil discourse event for fellow students at Providence C...
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Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy
The victory was bittersweet. Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County ...
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What the Data Tells Us About How ESSER Spending Did and Didn’t Help Schools Recover
What difference did $190 billion make for student success coming out of the COVID-19 health crisis? ...
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How I Became Invisible as a Teacher of Color in the Classroom
It is the weekend before my students arrive for the new school year. I am in my classroom listening ...
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What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn?
Do new AI tools like ChatGPT actually understand language the same way that humans do? It turns out ...
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What the Boom in Kids’ Smartwatches Reveals About Modern Parenting
As Jennifer Hill’s eldest child was heading into fifth grade, she began to wonder how she would comm...
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What Federal Data Tells Us About Challenges Finding Teachers
New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time...
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College ‘Deserts’ Disproportionately Deter Black and Hispanic Students from Higher Ed
In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometime...
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SEL Can Thrive in Schools, But We Need Time to Discuss What Matters Most
Social-emotional learning (SEL) has become a primary focus in many school’s strategic plans. Fortuna...
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Leaders Asked for More Tutors, and Schools Got Them. Is That Enough?
Coming out of the pandemic, students had a hard time returning to in-person classes, and they found ...
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How Are School Smartphone Bans Going?
Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she...
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What Happens When a State Brings Deep Discounts to Child Care?
Teigue Linch recalls the email she got from Pine Forest, her daughters’ child care center in Burling...
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For Girls to Succeed in STEM, Confidence Matters as Much as Competence
One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to e...
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Teaching Feels Like a Dead-End Job. Here’s How Schools Can Change That.
On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side. Al...
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As the Job Market Changes, Is a College Degree Less of a ‘Meal Ticket’ Than in the Past?
When Gina Petersen graduated with her associate degree from Kirkwood Community College two years ago...
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Despite Historic Funding, Early Childhood Educators Continue to Struggle, Report Finds
Despite the historic funding that was funneled into the field in the wake of the pandemic, early car...
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Phenomena-Based Learning and 3D Science: Inspiring Curiosity and Making Sense of the World
On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shad...
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How Much Does Family Income Matter for Student Outcomes?
When Eve, a mother in Colorado, received a legal settlement, she found herself suddenly flush. She d...
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How Did School Infrastructure Get So ‘Dire’?
WASHINGTON — Lewis Ferebee, chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools, stands at the top of ...
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