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Teaching Opinion Teachers: Here's How Your Students Say You Can Reach Them
High schoolers advise teachers on what it takes to get students interested in learning.
Larry Ferlazzo
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Early Childhood How Principals Can Make Preschools Better
Principals need to adopt strategies that help their youngest learners thrive.
Olina Banerji
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Curriculum Digital Literacy Isn't a One-Off Lesson. How Teachers Can Build Students' Skills
The ability to navigate the torrent requires social-emotional skill, not just fact-checking, a researcher says.
Arianna Prothero
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4 min read
College & Workforce Readiness What’s Missing in Career Education? A Case for ‘Career Identity’
The "aha!" moment for students doesn't come just from career interest inventories, one teacher says.
Lauraine Langreo
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3 min read
Diana Barrios gave a session on how artificial intelligence plays a role in career exploration and hHundreds attend ISTELive 26 + ASCD Annual Conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida on June 29, 2026.
Diana Barrios, a career exploration coordinator for the Houston school district, discusses career exploration at the ISTELive 26 + ASCD annual conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., on June 29, 2026. Barrios argued that schools need to do more than match students' interests with potential careers. Career exploration is a social act, she said.
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Social Studies Opinion America at 250: Our Classrooms Are Too Quiet
Respectful disagreement is an essential habit for self-governance. Can schools recover it?
David J. Bobb
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5 min read
Student hands hold speech bubbles, they contribute to an exchange of ideas. Each one contains the colors of the flag of the United States of America. Civics education.
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English Learners English Learners Show Growth Gains, Still Below Pre-Pandemic
A new WIDA report found signs of English-learner growth in language proficiency on a rebound.
Ileana Najarro
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3 min read
English Language Learning Program coordinator Dina Saunders, collects worksheets while helping in Katie Pringnitz's 6th grade Language Arts classroom on Aug. 24, 2016 at Mount Pleasant Middle School in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. The Mount Pleasant school district has Spanish, Vietnamese, Lao, Chinese, English and Indigenous languages from Central America and Vietnam speaking students.
English Language Learning Program Coordinator Dina Saunders collects worksheets while helping in Katie Pringnitz's 6th grade language arts classroom on Aug. 24, 2016 at Mount Pleasant Middle School in Iowa. For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, English learners’ average English-language proficiency test scores did not decline. <ins data-user-label="Daniela Franco Brown" data-time="06/30/2026 2:24:34 PM" data-user-id="00000185-9ccd-d5c5-a98d-decdaf220001" data-target-id="">Instead, they held steady or increased in most grades</ins>.
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Assessment ETS Acquires ACT, Signaling Potential Changes for College-Admissions Testing
ETS will acquire ACT, the assessment company known for its college-entrance exam.
Sarah Schwartz
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3 min read
Group spreads college gospelAlex Lucas, right, a college adviser at Dalton L. McMichael High School in Mayodan, N.C., works with junior Chloe Lester during an ACT Prep session after school, March 11, 2014.
Alex Lucas, right, a college adviser at Dalton L. McMichael High School in Mayodan, N.C., works with junior Chloe Lester during an ACT prep session after school on March 11, 2014. ETS, another assessment organization, is acquiring ACT—though nothing will immediately change for students taking the ACT's college-entrance exam.
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