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San Fran Ballot Measure Reflects 10-Year Battle to Reinstate 8th-Grade Algebra
Even as Caltech Drops Calculus Requirement, Other Competitive Colleges Continue to Expect Hard-to-Find Course
Dallas ISD’s Opt-Out Policy Dramatically Boosts Diversity in Its Honors Classes
‘A Bankrupt Concept of Math’: Some Educators Argue Calculus Should Be Dethroned
Retired Special Ed Teacher Stakes $125,000 to Open Coffee Shop That Gives Former Students Jobs
Utah and Washington Among 21 States Revamping Math to Better Fit Students’ Goals
As Schools Brace for More English Learners, How Well Are They Being Served Now
Equity Builder or Racial Barrier: Debate Rages Over Role of 8th-Grade Algebra
Advanced High School Math Classes a Game Changer, But Not All High Achievers Have Access
With 1,000 Applicants for 140 Seats, NYC’s Harbor School Set for Major Expansion
Education Department Logged Record 18,804 Civil Rights Complaints in 2022 — But 7,339 Were Title IX Charges Lodged By a Single Person
Past is Present: AZ’s Newly Elected GOP State Chief Returns for a Second Act
Arriving in Numbers, Newcomer Students Face Multiple Hurdles in U.S. Schools
Abbott Wanting to Bar Undocumented Kids From School Echoes Failed Past Policies
Ukrainian-Born Students in the U.S. and Those with Strong Ties to Country Struggle to Balance Studies with News of War
In Pursuit of a Better Democracy or Something Else: Oklahoma Latest State to Require High Schoolers to Pass Citizenship Test
‘We Don’t Have Any Talented Students’: Confronting English Language Learners’ Drastic Under-Representation in Elementary Gifted & Talented
A Year After Jan. 6 Insurrection, Teachers Wary of Anti-CRT Laws Careful How They Broach Capitol Attack
At Summer Camp: More Anxiety, More Learning, More Hugs — Same Fun
Influx of Unaccompanied Minors Along Southern Border Could Pose Test for Schools
Schools, Universities Reconsider Police on Campus
George Floyd's killing prompts schools to shift resources to counselors, other forms of security.
How Teachers Are Trying to Reach English Language Learners During Pandemic
Damning Grand Jury Report Cuts Through Politics in Loudoun County Student Sex Assault Cases
Young Afghan Refugees in America Adjust to New Norms—Especially for Girls
After Losing High-Profile Book Battle, Conservative Moms for Liberty Turns to Critical Tennessee School Board Race
New Study: Low-Income Chicago Students 40% More Likely to Earn Bachelor’s After College Prep Program
Alarming New Research Shows Babies Born Amid COVID Talk Less, Developing Slower
As Misinformation Rages, Educators Focused on Improving News Literacy Turn to Outside Groups to Help Kids Parse Fact From Fantasy
Fearful of COVID Lawsuits, Jittery School Officials Buy New — and Frequently Costly — Insurance Policies
A Problem for Math Teachers: Solving the Dilemma of Learning Lost to a Year of Zoom
As COVID Vaccine Rollout Approaches, States Weigh Whether to Place Teachers Near the Head of the Line
Federal Probes into Lack of School Services for Special Needs Students Reflect Nearly a Year of Parental Anguish, Advocates Say
Students at Colleges that Close Abruptly Less Likely to Finish Elsewhere
Back to School for Ukrainian Refugees, Expats Means Fresh Start with Old Fears
‘I Hope We’ll Get Through This’: The Ukrainian Refugees Arriving in Tijuana
Fired Superintendent Files Discrimination Complaint, New Chief Steps In
A Month Into Russian Invasion, Fear Grips Ukrainian Students in the U.S. With No Clear Path Home
In White, Wealthy Douglas County, Colo., a Conservative School Board Majority Fires the Superintendent and Fierce Backlash Ensues
Why Learning Loss Is Prompting Educators to Rethink the Traditional School Calendar: Start Earlier, End Later, Extend Breaks for Remediation
Problems With NYC’S Gifted and Talented Program Shared Across the Country — Along With Fears for Gifted Ed’s Future
‘This Has Really Been a Blessing’
For many special needs students, learning from home during pandemic has sparked surprising breakthroughs.
Could Summer School Catch Kids Up After a Disrupted Year? Here’s What Experts Say
A Border School for Asylum Seekers Goes Virtual
In 2019, The Sidewalk School opened in a cramped tent city on the U.S.-Mexico border. Now its students, craving educational opportunities in the States, face their latest challenge: learning during a pandemic.
‘Defunding the Police’—and Shifting Resources From Law Enforcement to Schools—Gains Momentum in the Wake of Protests
Distanced by Pandemic, School Psychologists Improvise Ways to Connect With Struggling Students
Newsday
Hempstead on Decline
.Activists want to know how Hempstead’s “transitional school” students will make up
class time
One District’s Dilemma
Worries Others
Sachem faces the loss of 229 faculty and staff and possible consolidation or closure of schools under a revised budget for 2013-14 to be offered in next week’s revote
Grading the Teachers
States watch,worry
as NY’s battle over
evaluations plays out
A Lifeline Named Gianna
How a little girl helped her grandfather battle emotional and physical scars of 9/11
The Warming of
Long Island
How shorter winters, hotter summers and rising waters could transform the Island — and what scientists say can be done
Still at Risk
Sandy 1 Year Later: Few long-term fixes in place. Perils remain for tens of thousands near shore
Teachers Helped Kids on Exams
Independent report finds students given ‘inappropriate staff-directed assistance’ at two elementaries
The Overdose Antidote:
One Shot to Live
Narcan saves lives and gives addicts a chance to overcome their addictions
Zoology, With
a Laugh Track
Bellport resident Rossellini mixes humor,message in offbeat play about animals’
mating habits
Educators Must Pay
$144G in fines for 2 administrators, 6 teachers in Glen Cove cheating scandal
Chicago Tribune
One Stage at a Time
One-time child violinist next heads to elite music program
In Search of Lost
and Time
With funds short, the
National Center for
Missing Adults faces
its own disappearance
Hammond House
A Grisly Reminder
Owner fumes as home
in slayings sits in ruin
It’s Now or Never
for Ex-gov’s Stuff
Stiffed storage facility owner to put Blagojevich’s belongings
on the block
Foreclosed But Not Forgotten
Bank-owned homes
to get new life
2 Accused of Taking $6 Million
Latino investors trusted couple, prosecutors say
