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Social Studies Teens Are Skeptical of the News. Does That Offer Learning Opportunities for Schools?
Many young people get their news from social media, a habit that has downstream implications.
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Mathematics Video The Algebra Hurdle: One School's Strategy to Help Students Clear It
An EdWeek video describes an Indiana school's use of tutoring and courses with different levels of rigor to help students.
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English Learners This Simple Procedural Change Can Improve Outcomes for English Learners
A Michigan study found more students exiting out of English-learner status with one policy change.
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Mathematics Opinion Why There’s Still No ‘Science of Reading’ Equivalent for Math Instruction
A leading curriculum designer lays out the biggest problem in math instruction today.
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The United States Capitol building as a bookcase filled with red, white, and blue policy books in a Washington DC landscape.
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Assessment NAEP Civics Tests Could Expand to Offer State-by-State Results
The first-ever state-by-state civics results are on the table, as is a new framework for the exam.
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An American flag decorates the door of the first-grade classroom at North Valley Academy, a patriotic-themed charter school, in Gooding, Idaho on May 7, 2012.
An American flag decorates the door of the first-grade classroom at North Valley Academy, a patriotic-themed charter school, in Gooding, Idaho on May 7, 2012.
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Early Childhood Who’s Responsible for Toilet Training? Schools or Families?
Districts grapple with how to respond when students aren't toilet-trained.
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A kindergartner, 5, stands with her arms crossed as she waits for classmates to use the restroom before they can return to the classroom, on Aug. 14, 2014, at an elementary school in Beecher, Mich.
A kindergartner, 5, stands with her arms crossed as she waits for classmates to use the restroom before they can return to the classroom, on Aug. 14, 2014, at an elementary school in Beecher, Mich.
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Teaching Opinion ‘That Was a Mistake’: The Education Ideas That Teachers Learned to Reject
Experiences have taught educators not to cling too tightly to their approaches to schooling.
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Conceptual illustration of classroom conversations and fragmented education elements coming together to form a cohesive picture of a book of classroom knowledge.
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