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357It takes a village: A Brooklyn high school and NYC nonprofits team up to enroll older immigrants
Under state law, immigrant students are allowed to attend public school through age 21.
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361These researchers study the legacy of the segregation academies they grew up around
Did these mostly white private schools contribute to the persistent racial division in schools?
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435More young Denver students are reading at grade level, but not as many as before the pandemic
The lower test scores show the long tail of pandemic learning loss.
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412Kansas public schools relying on blueprint for literacy to build reading skills
Kansas law now mandates implementation of evidence-based reading science strategies to increase reading skills.
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1.5KHow did students pitch themselves to colleges after last year’s affirmative action ruling?
How students present themselves in their essays has become of even greater consequence.
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485COVID aid funded big repairs at high-poverty schools. Will that give academics a boost too?
Schools on average planned to spend 18% of the COVID aid package on facilities.
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612A school shooting in Tennessee sparked activism — and now frustration
Tennessee joined eight other states in allowing school employees to carry guns on K-12 campuses.
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502Former Uvalde schools police chief indicted for role in Robb Elementary shooting response
These are the first criminal charges brought against law enforcement for school shooting response.
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516New partnership will boost agricultural education for Arizona Indigenous students
Lessons and project-based topics include origins, traditions, leadership, and plant science within Indigenous communities.
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452Oklahoma Supreme Court strikes down Catholic charter school
Catholic leaders say they will explore “all legal options” moving forward.
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373Older immigrant students say high school admission bettered their lives in U.S.
And others long for what they could have accomplished with a H.S. diploma.
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593Hundreds of high schools wrongfully refused entry to older, immigrant student
High school enrollment requirements for these students are arbitrary and unpredictable — with no oversight.
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764Three states have warned against sending students to an unregulated boarding school for youth with autism
Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York are involved in investigations of Shrub Oak International School.
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487Lax NYC school cell phone policies put burden on teachers, leave students confused
Hundreds of schools across New York City have instituted cell phone bans.
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484As teacher layoffs loom, research evidence mounts that seniority protections hurt kids in poverty
Losing young faculty also undermines efforts to recruit more Black and Hispanic educators.
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475How Illinois’ hands-off approach to homeschooling leaves children at risk
Homeschooled children lose the protection of mandatory reporters — teachers, counselors, coaches, nurses, bus drivers.
