Why secondary education is borrowing ideas from early childhood
Sarah Garland
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A Mother and Son Go from Homeless to College
New York’s free tuition plan won’t help the neediest students. Should it?
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Why Don’t More Teachers Like the edTPA?
Two studies give an on-the-job teaching test mixed reviews
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How High School Would Be Different If Students Could Design It
At a kid-designed high school, more technology and dancing in the halls, less testing
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The Every Student Succeeds Act Includes Some New Ideas on How to Train Better Teachers
But are they good ideas?
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There’s One Education Reform Proven to Work on a National Scale, So Why Aren’t We Trying It?
Children board a school bus in 1978 after the start of Seattle’s voluntary school desegregation program, which was the first major city in the U.S. to desegregate voluntarily. AP Photo/Barry Sweet In the fight over how to close the racial achievement gap in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that’s ever worked on […]
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What if a High School Diploma Guaranteed a Highly Paid Job?
A new vocational school in Waco makes an unheard-of promise to its graduates
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Who was Behind the Common Core Math Standards, and Will They Survive?
NEW YORK – Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. His youngest, Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while his oldest, Abigail, 7, pulls math problems written on strips of paper out of an old Kleenex box, decorated like a […]
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The Two Sides of TFA: An Internal Memo Shows the Teacher Group’s Defensiveness Over a Story About How it Changed in the Face of Criticism
EDITOR’S NOTE: Last year, The Hechinger Report published a story about a group of idealistic young Teach For America recruits who arrived in Seattle hoping to start jobs teaching in some of the city’s most struggling schools. Many of them remained unemployed, however, because Seattle didn’t really need more teachers. In fact, the district had […]
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Can High-Poverty Urban Districts Like Philadelphia Close the Digital Divide?
When it comes to speedy Internet access in schools, which technology advocates say will be critical to ensuring that American students stay competitive globally, Philadelphia is way ahead of many districts across the country. In the Obama administration’s new ConnectED initiative, an effort to redirect $2 billion in federal funding to put high-speed broadband in […]
