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How Teaching History Can Help Our Terrible Reading Scores: The narrative appeal of the past and application to present civic concerns has common cause with building literacy.
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How Teaching History Can Help Our Terrible Reading Scores
The narrative appeal of the past has common cause with building literacy
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Teen Boys Are Gambling. A Lot. The tidal wave of legal sports betting has easily infiltrated schools and swept up boys. There’s still time for commonsense guardrails and effective education.
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Teen Boys Are Gambling. A Lot.
The tidal wave of legal sports betting has easily infiltrated schools and swept up boys. There’s still time for commonsense guardrails and effective education.
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4 days ago
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A Bad Supreme Court Decision Is Hard to Undo: As states look to challenge Plyler v. Doe on educating children of unlawfully present parents, the court will need to confront its shaky constitutional grounds.
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A Bad Supreme Court Decision Is Hard to Undo
As states look to challenge <em>Plyler v. Doe</em> on educating children of unlawfully present parents, the court will need to confront its shaky constitutional grounds
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5 days ago
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The Brain That Sees Patterns: For too long, teachers have been asking struggling readers to guess at words instead of helping them to learn the code.
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The Brain That Sees Patterns
For too long, teachers have been asking struggling readers to guess at words instead of helping them to learn the code
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12 days ago
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"Nearly all states have passed 'science of reading' laws, and most researchers and educators now agree students need to learn letters and sounds explicitly and systematically to become proficient readers."
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The Cost of Over-Teaching Phonics
In teaching reading, don’t miss the forest for the trees
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15 days ago
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16 days ago
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Patrick Graff, a Senior Fellow with the American Federation for Children, is this week's guest on the Education Exchange podcast.
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The Education Exchange: Public School Enrollment Is Declining. Is Universal Choice to Blame?
Paul E. Peterson interviews Patrick Graff, Senior Fellow with the American Federation for Children
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17 days ago
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Can Banning Cellphones Save Student Learning? Evidence from Florida, home of the first statewide mandate.
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Can Banning Cellphones Save Student Learning?
Evidence from Florida, home of the first statewide mandate
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19 days ago
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Five Lessons for School Reformers: 2026 Edition. As K–12 reform heats back up, what can we learn from the last time the movement was riding high?
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Five Lessons for School Reformers: 2026 Edition
As K–12 reform heats back up, what can we learn from the last time the movement was riding high?
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20 days ago
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What If a Physician Prescribed a Soccer League Instead of Therapy? “Social prescribing” tries to put struggling teens into activities instead of therapy. It should work, so why hasn’t it yet?
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What If a Physician Prescribed a Soccer League Instead of Therapy?
“Social prescribing” tries to put struggling teens into activities instead of therapy. It should work, so why hasn’t it yet?
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25 days ago
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New Caps on Federal Student Lending Could Impact Schools of Education: Expensive institutions may need to reckon with OBBBA’s effort to rein in the nation’s $1.7 trillion in student loan debt.
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New Caps on Federal Student Lending Could Impact Schools of Education
Expensive institutions may need to reckon with OBBBA’s effort to rein in the nation’s $1.7 trillion in student loan debt
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26 days ago
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High School Reform for Dummies: “Mere knowledge” is getting sidelined at innovative models that embrace a vaporous notion of success, leaving students and society vulnerable in the “age of AI.”
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High School Reform for Dummies
“Mere knowledge” is getting sidelined at innovative models that embrace a vaporous notion of success, leaving students and society vulnerable in the “age of AI”
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27 days ago
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Governors Can Fix Higher Ed: A generation ago, state leaders collaborated to fix a K–12 nation at risk. Universities today need the same gubernatorial guidance.
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about 1 month ago
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Apprenticeship Should Be a Centerpiece of Workforce Pell: The earn-and-learn expansion of federal Pell Grant eligibility offers policymakers an opportunity to leverage our most promising workforce pathway.
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Apprenticeship Should Be a Centerpiece of Workforce Pell
The earn-and-learn expansion of federal Pell Grant eligibility offers policymakers an opportunity to leverage our most promising workforce pathway
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about 1 month ago
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Hope or Hype? What to Make of Yale’s Report on Trust in Higher Ed. A valuable document has come out of New Haven, but will it make good on its promises?
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Hope or Hype? What to Make of Yale’s Report on Trust in Higher Ed
A valuable document has come out of New Haven, but will it make good on its promises?
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about 1 month ago
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The proposals for overhauling the Institute of Education Sciences could address its operational inefficiencies but are unlikely to break through our ideological stalemate.
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Imagine There’s No Politics: A Review of the Northern Report
The proposals for overhauling the Institute of Education Sciences could address its operational inefficiencies but are unlikely to break through our ideological stalemate
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about 1 month ago
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The Case for a National Assessment of Flourishing and Participation: Why the rebuilt IES needs a NAEP for 3 p.m. to midnight that’s anonymous and representative.
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The Case for a National Assessment of Flourishing and Participation
Why the rebuilt IES needs a NAEP for 3 p.m. to midnight that’s anonymous and representative
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The State of Education Politics Today: What does partisan polarization mean for schooling and higher education?
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The State of Education Politics Today
What does partisan polarization mean for schooling and higher education?
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School-to-Work Programs Launch Students into Careers, but Maybe Not Far Enough. Although the pathway has been a boon to rural employers, it can limit the mobility of recent graduates.
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School-to-Work Programs Launch Students into Careers, but Maybe Not Far Enough
Although the pathway has been a boon to rural employers, it can limit the mobility of recent graduates
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Colorado’s Small Rural Districts: A Potent Source of Education and Community. Overlooked and undervalued, three remote school districts show what could be possible with even more support from the state.
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Colorado’s Small Rural Districts: A Potent Source of Education and Community
Overlooked and undervalued, three remote school districts show what could be possible with even more support from the state
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about 2 months ago
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The Battle Hymn of the Refugee Teacher: The explosive growth of classical education is luring teachers from traditional district schools—and reminding them why they became teachers in the first place.
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The Battle Hymn of the Refugee Teacher
The explosive growth of classical education is luring teachers from traditional district schools—and reminding them why they became teachers in the first place
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about 2 months ago
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GSA Boss Kendi: “What Was Good for the MAGA Goose Is Now Good for the Anti-Racist Gander.” AOC administration’s chief bureaucrat uses Trumpian precedent to bring the Glorious People’s Revolution to campus.
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GSA Boss Kendi: “What Was Good for the MAGA Goose Is Now Good for the Anti-Racist Gander”
AOC administration’s chief bureaucrat uses Trumpian precedent to bring the Glorious People’s Revolution to campus
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about 2 months ago
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Amber Northern, a senior advisor to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, joins the Education Exchange to discuss efforts on reforming the Institute of Education Science.
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The Education Exchange: How to Build a Better Institute of Education Sciences
Paul E. Peterson interviews Amber Northern, a senior advisor to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education,
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about 2 months ago
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The End of Disparate Impact? How changes to federal policy on what counts as discrimination will affect schools.
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The End of Disparate Impact?
How changes to federal policy on what counts as discrimination will affect schools
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about 2 months ago
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Admissions Officers Beware: Some Advanced Placement Scores Are Inflated. Most frequently taken exams scored under new, relaxed system.
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AP Exams Are as Rigorous as Ever: College Board employs evidence-based standards setting to ensure pass rates are commensurate with student learning.
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AP Exams Are as Rigorous as Ever
College Board employs evidence-based standards setting to ensure pass rates are commensurate with student learning
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The Cost of Over-Teaching Phonics: In teaching reading, don’t miss the forest for the trees.
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The Cost of Over-Teaching Phonics
In teaching reading, don’t miss the forest for the trees
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about 2 months ago
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Education Innovation and the Search for Transformational Solution-ness: Paul Banksley argues for the freedom to paint in shades of pastel possibility.
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Education Innovation and the Search for Transformational Solution-ness
Paul Banksley argues for the freedom to paint in shades of pastel possibility
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about 2 months ago
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"School leaders at the wealthiest public middle school in the nation’s capital told parents that reading short passages will better prepare students for high school. The rationale for this change fails even a basic smell test."
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Reading’s Thin Line Between Difficult and Boring
When it comes to assigning texts for students, it’s hard to find the perfect balance
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about 2 months ago
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Universities are perceived ideologically biased and extremist, but the data paints a different picture. Hoover's Paola Sapienza discusses how political opinions are represented on colleges, with more students closer to the center than not. Listen to the conversation via
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The Education Exchange: Students Lean Liberal Upon Arrival to College, Shift Further Left by Graduation
Paul E. Peterson interviews Paola Sapienza, the J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
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“We talk endlessly about the deficits K–12 and college students have in learning, skills, and finances. We talk much less about the missing ingredient that converts credentials into a career: social capital.”
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The Social Wealth Gap
Many students lack the social connections that lead to better outcomes. Schools can help make them.
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about 2 months ago
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"For many years, education researchers have puzzled over a common phenomenon known as the 'fadeout effect'—that is, that the benefits of education interventions, such as early childhood enrichment programs, often diminish or disappear."
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Why Do Most Education Interventions Fade Out Over Time?
There is evidence both to explain and complicate the “fadeout effect”
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2 months ago
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Hot Takes on AI and Education: Sorting through the brilliance, the buzz, and the bluster.
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Hot Takes on AI and Education
Sorting through the brilliance, the buzz, and the bluster
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The Classical Learning Test Takes Aim at the SAT–ACT Duopoly: The upstart assessment is making inroads in the college admissions game.
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The Classical Learning Test Takes Aim at the SAT–ACT Duopoly
The upstart assessment is making inroads in the college admissions game
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2 months ago
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How Democrats Lost the Plot on Schools—and How to Get It Back. Despite polling showing progressives maintain a slight edge on education, public trust in the party has plummeted.
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How Democrats Lost the Plot on Schools—and How to Get It Back
Despite polling showing progressives maintain a slight edge on education, public trust in the party has plummeted
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2 months ago
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Rediscovering Knowledge as the Key to Reading: Two champions of knowledge-rich instruction reflect on its current momentum.
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Rediscovering Knowledge as the Key to Reading
Two champions of knowledge-rich instruction reflect on its current momentum
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2 months ago
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The Consequences of Shattered Trust: Populism, identity politics, school closures, and financial irresponsibility have taken their toll on public confidence in American education.
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The Consequences of Shattered Trust
Populism, identity politics, school closures, and financial irresponsibility have taken their toll on public confidence in American education
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2 months ago
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"Central Wake is a small public charter school that provides a personalized approach to learning for students who have dropped out of high school or are on the verge of doing so."
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At-Risk Students Get Second Chance at North Carolina Charter School
Drop-out recovery program lends connection, support, and a better shot at success
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2 months ago
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The Dumbing Down of Advanced Placement Tests: High school grade inflation imposes long-term harms, new research shows.
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The Dumbing Down of Advanced Placement Tests
High school grade inflation imposes long-term harms, new research shows
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2 months ago
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The Social Wealth Gap: Many students lack the social connections that lead to better outcomes. Schools can help make them.
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The Social Wealth Gap
Many students lack the social connections that lead to better outcomes. Schools can help make them.
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2 months ago
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No Homework? No Problem. Eminent ed school dean Smug Snidely sees the decline in take-home assignments as allowing students more time to be their authentic selves.
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No Homework? No Problem.
Eminent ed school dean Smug Snidely sees the decline in take-home assignments as allowing students more time to be their authentic selves
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3 months ago
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Restorative Justice Didn’t Deliver. Why? Teachers say focusing on students’ social and emotional wellbeing to address discipline has left classrooms harder to manage than ever.
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Restorative Justice Didn’t Deliver. Why?
Teachers say focusing on students’ social and emotional wellbeing to address discipline has left classrooms harder to manage than ever
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3 months ago
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Don’t Just Fight Teen Screen Time—Fund the Alternatives. A solution for the Anxious Generation is hiding in plain sight: Education Freedom Accounts.
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Don’t Just Fight Teen Screen Time—Fund the Alternatives
A solution for the Anxious Generation is hiding in plain sight: Education Freedom Accounts
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3 months ago
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Logged In, Tuned Out: Fifteen years and billions of dollars later, what has learning tech accomplished?
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Logged In, Tuned Out
Fifteen years and billions of dollars later, what has learning tech accomplished?
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3 months ago
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Will the Science of Reading Deliver This Time? It’s one bandwagon that might be worth jumping on, but it’ll need to steer around some potholes.
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Will the Science of Reading Deliver This Time?
It’s one bandwagon that might be worth jumping on, but it’ll need to steer around some potholes
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3 months ago
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Don’t Call Them the Underdogs: New film gives competitive students of Washington Urban Debate League their due and others hope for the future of civic engagement.
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Don’t Call Them the Underdogs
New film gives competitive students of Washington Urban Debate League their due and others hope for the future of civic engagement
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3 months ago
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School Choice or School Spending? Florida’s 15-Year Experiment Points to the Answer. Scaling choice in the Sunshine State is found to be at least 11 times more cost effective in improving public school student performance than simply spending more.
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School Choice or School Spending? Florida’s 15-Year Experiment Points to the Answer
Scaling choice in the Sunshine State is found to be at least 11 times more cost effective in improving public school student performance than simply spending more
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3 months ago
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At-Risk Students Get Second Chance at North Carolina Charter School: Drop-out recovery program lends connection, support, and a better shot at success.
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At-Risk Students Get Second Chance at North Carolina Charter School
Drop-out recovery program lends connection, support, and a better shot at success
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3 months ago
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The Education Exchange: Virtual Learning Must Be a Choice, Not the Only Option. Unfairly blamed for pandemic learning losses, digital instruction boasts many unsung benefits.
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The Education Exchange: Virtual Learning Must Be a Choice, Not the Only Option
Paul E. Peterson interviews Julie Young, the former Vice President of Education Outreach and Student Services for Arizona State University
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3 months ago
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