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Weaving a Stronger Society

How educators and disruptors are breaking down the walls of education, weaving together schools and communities to repair the fraying social fabric of America.

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Covid Warriors

An eight-part series produced in collaboration with the Solutions Journalism Network that explores what educators, schools and districts are doing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent an entire generation of students from lost learning and its lifetime of consequences.

Meet the Warriors

Dear Adult Leaders: #ListenToYouth

A set of open letters written by students to adult leaders and policymakers about their experiences and how, from their perspectives, the American education system should adapt. Produced in collaboration with America’s Promise Alliance to elevate student voices in the national conversation as schools and districts navigate how to educate our country’s youth in a global pandemic.

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A Nation at Risk, 35 Years Later

More than three decades after the publication of “A Nation at Risk,” the report continues to change American education. Here, a series of articles, columns, retrospectives and previews tied to the Reagan Institute’s 2018 “Summit on Education” in Washington, D.C.

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Special Productions

Class Disrupted

A multi-season podcast series by Diane Tavenner and Michael Horn exploring how to strengthen teaching and learning in the wake of COVID-19.

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No Child Left Behind’s Enduring Legacy

Jan. 8, 2002: President George W. Bush signs the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act into law — and America’s schools will never be the same. Fifteen years later, The 74 offers an insider’s retrospective, looking back at how this effort to help America’s students came about, and charting the legacy of the landmark legislation.

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The 74 Goes to Burn Camp

Mid-Atlantic Burn Camp is a one-week summer camp for burn survivors ages 8 to 17. The camp includes traditional camp activities as well as some less typical educational programs and support services. The 74 went to camp in summer 2018, just as the camp celebrated its 30th anniversary, to hear campers and counselors tell their stories.

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Books & Publications

Brown v. Board: The Untold Stories

Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision captures the first-person narratives of individuals who were plaintiffs or whose families were represented in the five cases consolidated by the United States Supreme Court in an opinion announced on May 17, 1954.

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Reinventing America’s Schools

A story of transformation by the Progressive Policy Institute’s David Osborne. It is a bracing survey of the most dramatic improvements taking place in urban public education today, in cities as diverse as New Orleans, Denver, Washington, D.C., and Indianapolis.

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An Education Dream

An anthology by the Campaign for School Equity in collaboration with The 74, An Education Dream tells the story of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s unrealized dream of equal access to high-quality education, particularly for students of color — the story of education in Memphis in the 50 years since Dr. King passed and left us to make his education dream a reality.

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The B.A. Breakthrough

The country’s poorest students have just an 11 percent chance of graduating college within six years. That’s not the American Dream; it’s the American Dream denied. In The B.A. Breakthrough: How Ending Diploma Disparities Can Change the Face of America, author Richard Whitmire argues that improving those odds could be “the most effective anti-poverty program ever launched in this country.”

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The Founders

Inside the revolution to invent (and reinvent) America's best charter schools

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