More male teachers can help close gender gaps in achievement, argues Curtis Valentine.
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A Job and a College Degree Before You Graduate High School
“Dual enrollment” programs are the hottest reform in education. But they haven’t worked for lower-income students of color—until now.
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Once a Pandemic Lifeline, Universal Access to Free School Lunch to End
Amid COVID-19, Washington bolstered funds for student meals. Now, despite bipartisan appeals, Mitch McConnell is fighting their renewal.
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What Happens to Students Who Were Already Behind?
The pandemic has threatened literacy education. Here’s how tutors are fighting back.
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How Three California Communities Are Trying to Improve Preschool for Vulnerable Students
Preschool programs strive to involve parents, train teachers to improve preschool outcomes
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Using Schools to Bring a Dying Rust Belt City Back to Life
In East St. Louis, the school district is helping parents get back on their feet
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Oft-Overlooked Threads Woven into ECE’s Thorny Knot
To facilitate interaction among ideas presented in Moving Beyond False Choices for Early Childhood Educators, Series Editor Stacie G. Goffin offers opening comments. For readers new to the Series, her introduction explains the series’ intent. Laura Bornfreund was asked to review the series’ most recent five blogs and identify emerging themes along with their policy implications. She lifts up three issues […]
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Let’s Be Honest: It’s About Sexism, Classism, and Racism
To facilitate interaction among ideas presented in Moving Beyond False Choices for Early Childhood Educators, Series Editor Stacie G. Goffin offers opening comments. For readers new to the Series, her introduction explains the series’ intent. Maurice Sykes urges us to delve deeper to understand why the issues of preparation and education, compensation and status, and […]
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Schools Lead the Way to Zero-Energy Buildings, and Use Them for Student Learning
Finding “vampires,” angling solar panels, tracking cafeteria waste – all become lessons
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Dual Language Learner Data Gaps: Takeaways for State Policy Leaders
This is the fifth and final post in New America’s blog series, DLL Data Gaps, and summarizes key findings and recommendations for state policy leaders. Click here to learn more about this project and access the other blogs in the series. Across a variety of domains, states need better data to more equitably serve dual language learners (DLLs) in […]
