The Top Four
The Top
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The Top 4 Stories Making the News Today
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A Massachusetts Teachers Union Votes to Kill a Successful Charter School, as Families Scramble for Answers
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74 Interview: David Hardy on Putting Purpose Before Politics and Kids Before Adults in Leading Ohio’s 2nd State-Takeover District
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‘No One Is Above the Law’: Divisive Trump Surrogate Carl Paladino Removed From Buffalo School Board
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Exclusive: Teachers Union Document Reveals Master Plan for Unionizing Charter School Networks
The Blackboard

For Schools, an Eclipse Conundrum: To Open or Close? For Fun or for Science?

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Inspiring
Call Her RoboKid: How a Cutting-Edge Robot Is Helping an Ohio Student Attend Classes While She’s Sick at Home
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 2 in 3 High School Students Know of Kids Who Cheat Using Digital Devices — but Few Admit Doing It Themselves
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 LearnLaunch Accelerator Gives a Boost to Ed Tech Startups Worldwide From Its Boston Home
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Richard Whitmire's THE ALUMNI
Noble Network of Charter Schools: It’s Not Just About Going to College, but About Global Perspective & Leaving Chicago
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Overshadowed by the College Sexual Assault Debate, 154 Open Title IX Investigations at K-12 Schools
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 New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year
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 What Our Kids Made at Summer Camp: Proud Parents Posting Adorable Photos of Arts & Crafts on Social Media
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 Smith: 10 Lessons From Rocketship Education’s First Decade as a Pioneer of K-5 Personalized Learning
King & Peiser: College Completion — Charter Schools as Laboratories
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90% of Parents Think Their Kids Are on Track in Math & Reading. The Real Number? Just 1 in 3, Survey Shows
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Every Student Succeeds Act Interactive: How Far Every State Has Gone to Update Education Policies Under the Every Student Succeeds Act
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 Litt: Why Kids in Low-Performing Schools Are Set to Lose Big Under California’s Current ESSA Plan
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Inspiring
In Oklahoma, a 3rd-Grade Teacher Is Panhandling Along a Highway Entrance to Raise Money for Classroom Supplies
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 Howard Fuller: Advancement — the Second ‘A’ in NAACP — Should Apply to Our Children Too
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 Driven to Serve: Maine Recruits Veterans for Free Training to Ease Shortage of School Bus Drivers
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Nearly 4 Million Students Attend Schools in Counties Most at Risk of Flooding, Pew Report Finds
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Minnesota Educators Approve ‘Toolkit’ to Protect Transgender Youth From Discrimination at School
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 Bradford: For Black Families Focused on Education, the NAACP Just Committed ‘the Worst Kind of Betrayal’
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Moody’s Moves On as National HS Math Whiz Competition Seeks New $3.6 Million Sponsor
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Every Student Succeeds Act This Week’s ESSA News: Florida Wants a Waiver, Texas Seeks Comments, and Michigan Gets a Dashboard
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 Sigmund: In New York’s Schools, a Serious Transparency Problem When It Comes to Student Data
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 Mesecar: 4 Ways Tennessee Is Prioritizing Personalized Learning in Its New ESSA Plan
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New Rankings: Most & Least Educated Cities — a Tale of Two Californias
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Every Student Succeeds Act
Ohio’s ESSA Reboot: State School Leaders Make Big Pivot After Outcry Over Testing Requirements
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Inspiring How’s This for a Yarn? School Bus Driver Crochets a Personalized Toy for Every Student on Her Route
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 Sahm: Newark’s Charter Schools Deliver on Their Original Purpose — and Spark Innovation Across the District
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Every Student Succeeds Act
This Week in ESSA: Ohio, Montana, Oklahoma, New York Advance Plans as Group Promotes Evidence-Based Rules
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 Investigation: Forced Into Unneeded Remedial Classes, Some Community College Students Fail to Finish Degrees
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Teacher Raises, Bathrooms, Vouchers: Texas Lawmakers Take Up Big School Fights in Special Legislative Session
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 More Attention to ELLs, Student Suspension, Fewer Test Days: NY Tweaks Its ESSA Plan
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 Simpson: When Teachers Act as Coaches, Everyone Comes Out a Winner
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Union Report
Analysis: How the California Teachers Union Is Spending Its Summer
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Turning Red: New Jersey’s Well-Heeled Teachers Union Backs Trump Supporter Over State’s Top Democrat
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Every Student Succeeds Act This Week’s ESSA News: Science Test Debate, a Career Readiness Blind Spot, and Massachusetts Has Work to Do
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Exclusive: Too Hot to Learn: Records Show Nearly a Dozen of the Biggest School Districts Lack Air Conditioning
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 Ladner: ‘Frontier Justice’ From Parents at ‘Wild West’ Charter Schools Yields Great Results for Students
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Inspiring WATCH: These 100 HS Grads Made a Splash With Pomp, Circumstance — and a Jump in the Lake
Flashcards
13 Things To Know About Charter Schools
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 DeVos Hears of Sex Attacks at Colleges & K-12 Schools as Feds Weigh Changes to Title IX Evidence Rules
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Social-Emotional Learning Boosts Students’ Scores, Graduation Rates, Even Earnings, New Study Finds
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 Cantor: Falling in Love Again (With School Policy) Binge-Watching ‘The West Wing’
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Bradford, Fuller & Stewart: Liberating Black Kids From Broken Schools — By Any Means Necessary
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 Connecticut’s Shame: In One of America’s Richest Counties, a High School Has Been Failing for 50 Years
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 The Rise of ‘College Admissions Sabotage’: When HS Seniors Use Social Media to Rat Out Their Classmates
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LIFO 101: How ‘Last-In, First-Out’ Affects School Districts
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 Lieberman: ESSA Allows States to Focus on Often Overlooked Pre-K Ed Players — School Principals
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74 Interview: Rep. Virginia Foxx on Better Career and Technical Education, ‘An Idea Whose Time Has Come’
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 Rice: Charter Schools Are Advancing the Cause of Black Education in America for the 21st Century
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 New Research: Louisiana Voucher Results Swing Upward
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Personalized Learning for Every Student: How 2 Very Different School Systems Pursued a District-Wide Strategy