When Glennys Torres was looking for summer child care for her kids, she envisioned a program full of outdoor play and time spent with friends. But Torres quickly realized she …
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Every year, Texas sends more than 100,000 students to its system of disciplinary schools, known as disciplinary alternative education programs. When the state legislature established DAEPs in 1995, during rising …
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Angela Comfort still can’t explain exactly what went wrong. Her son, Jordan, an honors student in Garland, Texas, got in trouble with school officials this February for distributing flyers on …
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There’s a tectonic shift underway that most Americans may not think about, but see every day when they take their pets to the vet or their kids to the dentist, …
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The most exciting thing about Lindel Fields, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, is how boring he is. Sitting in a state education office conference room recently while …
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In the past decade, student achievement has stagnated or declined around the world as cellphones have become nearly ubiquitous Gen Z and Gen Alpha accessories. Educators from Florida to Sweden …
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Education
OPINION: Don’t make students choose between college or career — preparation for both is crucial
If we want genuine, future-ready graduates, state policy and school curriculum decision-makers should start looking at the career technical education (CTE) playbook. High schools have been working hard to expand …
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PHILADELPHIA — The college gym is packed with employers offering work opportunities, but Jimmy Myers, a freshman at Drexel University, has come to the career fair to speak with just …
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Education
OPINION: To solve chronic absenteeism, let’s make school a place where students really want to be
Chronic absenteeism has become one of the defining challenges facing American schools. Students are missing more school than they did before the pandemic, when absenteeism was already labeled a national …
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It seems like a tale of two school systems. Washington, D.C., has emerged as the fastest-improving school system in the nation, according to a major new analysis of student test …