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20 Years After Katrina, Lessons from the Fight to Reopen New Orleans’ Schools

Subscribe here to see where the schools went. Following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans had to decide which schools would be rebuilt and by whom. ...

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20 years After Hurricane Katrina, New Podcast Explores Evolution of NOLA Schools

Where Did the Schools Go? In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, flooding neighborhoods and destroying homes. Hundreds of thousands of people were ...

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Summer Reading Can Help Boost Literacy. Why Don’t High Schools Require It?

Only 30% of eighth graders scored as proficient readers on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, compared to 34% in 2019. However, in ...

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Public School Enrollment Is Declining — But Not Everywhere, or for All Students

blog Public school enrollment dropped by more than 1.2 million students, or 2.5 percent, from 50.8 million to 49.5 million between the autumn of ...

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Math Fellowship Rooted in Racial Justice Supports Early Educators

Register right away. The way a child handles numbers and solves mathematical issues throughout their life can be greatly influenced by their early arithmetic ...

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How Do Kids in Top-Spending States Perform on NAEP? Not as Well as You’d Think

While funding is important in education, it does not ensure that students will succeed. For instance, consider New York. The Education Law Center modified ...

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Texas Pays Its Best Educators up to $32,000 to Keep Them in the Classroom

Great teachers matter. A lot. This is not a new finding, but Texas is actually doing something about it, by providing millions of dollars ...

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AI and Art Collide in This Engineering Course That Puts Human Creativity First

I see many students viewing artificial intelligence as humanlike simply because it can write essays, do complex math or answer questions. AI can mimic ...

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Survey Finds Teens Worldwide Are Lost in the Transition After High School

As high school graduation draws near, teenagers everywhere are lost. Although their expectations are out of date and they are not well-informed about their ...

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How Standardized Exams Can Favor Privilege Over Potential

Congressmen’s requests to reinstate academic merit in college admissions may appear to be a neutral idea at first. We believe that these ads conceal ...

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