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Teaching Profession What Were the Funniest Stories of the School Year? We Asked Educators
In what other job do you hear about lost boogers and polio shirts, and hold a memorial for Gerald the fly?
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Special Education Video Inside a Summer School Program for Special Education Students
Academic support offered between school years is especially important for students with learning differences.
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College & Workforce Readiness How States Are Streamlining College Admissions—and Who Benefits
Direct-admissions programs aim to streamline the college admissions process.
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Reading & Literacy Can the Prospect of 3rd Grade Retention Improve Early Literacy? Yes, Study Says
The findings add another wrinkle to an ongoing debate over retention policies tied to reading scores.
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Third grade teacher Anne Harris checks her watch before the start of the school day on April 24, 2026, at Glenfare Elementary in Portland, Ore.
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College & Workforce Readiness Opinion There's a Lot of Talk About 'Career Readiness.' Have We Thought It Through?
Just because you promote opportunities for career pathways doesn’t mean students are learning.
Rick Hess
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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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Early Childhood Why Keeping the Same Pre-K Teacher for Two Years Benefits Kids
As states seek to expand pre-K and teachers report students' lack of readiness, looping may help.
Elizabeth Heubeck
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Katrina Fernandez, lower school principal at Capital City Public Charter School, helps organize these preschoolers as they practice along with high school seniors during a graduation rehearsal at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, DC on June 11, 2026. The school's pre-K classes practice "looping," in which 3- and 4-year-olds share a classroom and stay with the same teacher for two years.
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Teaching Profession The American Federation of Teachers Has Outlined its Latest Priorities. See the List
The second-largest teachers' union has made membership inroads among charter and independent schools.
Sarah D. Sparks
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Delegates listen during the 2026 American Federation of Teachers Convention at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington on July 17, 2026. The union gathered to set policy and strategy for the next two years.
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  • Oscar-winning actor and women's health activist Halle Berry joins Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., second from left, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, and other women of the Senate as they introduce new legislation to boost federal research on menopause, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2024. The bipartisan Senate bill, the Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women's Health Act, would create public health efforts to improve women's mid-life health. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    Actress Halle Berry joins federal lawmakers who introduced new legislation to boost federal research on menopause, at the Capitol in Washington, on May 2, 2024. School officials and advocates are paying more attention to the financial cost the health condition brings to schools and individual teachers.
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    Teaching Profession Talking About Menopause Is No Longer Taboo. Here's Why That's Good for Teachers
    One estimate says that schools experience nearly $800 million in lost productivity annually because of the health issue.
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    Mayor Zohran Mamdani visits the Learning Through Play Pre-K in the Bronx in New York, Saturday, April 18, 2026. Mamdani, who was accompanied by former President Barack Obama on the visit, joined the New York City Council is backing a new college savings plan for families of young children.
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    College & Workforce Readiness New York City Is Giving $1,000 to Kindergartners for College. Will It Work?
    Backers of the program say it will raise families' awareness of the need to save for postsecondary study.
    Jennifer Vilcarino, July 15, 2026
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    Children use speech bubbles as a bridge to reach their teacher.
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    Early Childhood Opinion Why Early Learning Classrooms Need More Chit-Chat
    Conversation is a vital pedagogical tool. Why is it waning in pre-K and elementary schools?
    Tia Henteleff, July 15, 2026
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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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    Mathematics Opinion Math Instruction Needs to Change. Here's How
    A lot has changed in math education in the last decade. Here’s what the next 10 years may hold.
    Larry Ferlazzo, July 15, 2026
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    Melanie Thomas plays with her autistic son, Luke, at their home in St. Cloud, Fla., on March 25, 2025. The local school district implemented changes that would merge more students with disabilities into mainstream classes. A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that the number of students who have disabilities and spend at least 40% of their school day in general education classes rose about 25% between the 2012-13 and 2023-24 school years.
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    Special Education More Students With Disabilities Are in General Education Classes. How's That Working?
    New report examines states' efforts to educate students with disabilities in mainstream classrooms.
    Caitlynn Peetz Stephens, July 14, 2026
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    Children look at the Star Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the lyrics of the American national anthem, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Washington.
    Children look at the Star Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the lyrics of the American national anthem, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on June 10, 2025, in Washington.
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    Social Studies Trump Admin. Calls Popular Smithsonian History Teaching Materials 'Radical'
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  • Morocco's Achraf Hakimi (2) and France's Kylian Mbappe (10) hug after the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between France and Morocco in Foxborough, Mass., near Boston, on July 9, 2026.
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    Connecticut passed legislation requiring public preschools and kindergartens to provide play-based learning during the school day.
    Connecticut passed legislation requiring public preschools and kindergartens to provide play-based learning during the school day.
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    Play carts make it easy to follow Connecticut’s play-based learning mandate.
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    Reading & Literacy Opinion ‘A Blessing and a Challenge’: What Teachers Think of the Science of Reading
    In these classrooms, the recent push for foundational literacy skills has been transformational.
    Larry Ferlazzo, July 13, 2026
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    Davontez Johnson, right, ties preschooler Kodi's shoes, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, at Dorothy I. Height Elementary School in Baltimore. Early educators’ growing concern centers on too much access to technology from a young age.
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    Ric Calhoun, the National Education Association's Education Support Professional of the year, is calling for a "ESP Bill of Rights." He addresses the union's Representative Assembly at the NEA Convention in Denver, on July 6, 2026.
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