Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has waded into the roiling debate: whether schools should require students and staff to wear masks.
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What we know about masks, students, and COVID spread: A guide
The research is shaky. Here’s why many experts recommend masks anyway.
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Virtual charter schools see spike in interest as families grapple with the pandemic’s disruption
New data suggests virtual charter schools are seeing a sharp uptick in interest and enrollment across the country.
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Charter schools in some cities enroll few students mid-year. Here’s why that matters.
A report released by the Center for American Progress looks at the extent to which charter schools accept students during the school year.
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Study: Students’ math scores drop after using private school voucher
Low-income students who use a voucher to attend private school in Indiana see their math scores drop for several years as a result, according to a new study.
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Black teachers leave schools at higher rates — but why?
In recent years, there’s been an increased push to get more teachers of color into the classroom, often highlighting large gaps between student and teacher demographics. National data shows the problem isn’t just recruiting those teachers, but retaining them as well.
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DeVos presses pause on special education rule, highlighting ongoing discrimination debate
The U.S. Department of Education has halted an Obama-era rule designed to stop students of color from being over-identified as having a disability — and waded into a complicated research dispute in the process.
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Wealthier students benefit from art, music over summer while poor kids miss out
More affluent kids are about twice as likely to visit a museum, art gallery, or historical site or see a play or concert over the summer, as compared with their peers from low-income families. That’s according to a new analysis released this month by the federal government, illustrating disparities in out-of-school experiences, which may be exacerbated by rising income inequality.
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Can Ms. Hayes go to Washington?
Jahana Hayes thinks what Washington, D.C. needs is a schoolteacher — one of the nation’s top teachers, in fact. And though the 2016 national hadn’t expected to get into politics, here she is, running for Congress.
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School choice lets wealthy families gentrify neighborhoods, avoid local schools
When Francis Pearman was studying at Vanderbilt, he and a fellow graduate student noticed a striking phenomenon in Nashville: white, affluent families were moving into low-income neighborhoods without sending their children to the neighborhood schools.
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Takeaways from Betsy DeVos’s summit on innovation in K-12 education
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos used her bully pulpit last week to again call for more school innovation, especially technology-infused “personalized learning.”
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Student absences to have higher stakes in most states. Will cheating follow?
Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance — attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data.
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Trump education nominee pleads ignorance on voucher studies
At his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing, Mick Zais, the nominee to be second-in-command at the Department of Education, said that he was not aware of high-profile studies showing that school vouchers can hurt student achievement.
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Are ‘high’ standards hurting diversity among teachers?
Because candidates of color are less likely to get over the certification hurdles, states that have bet on improving education by “raising the bar” for entering teaching risk excluding teachers of color even as there has been heightened attention on the lack of diversity in the teaching profession.
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Six problems the NAACP has with charter schools
After calling for a temporary ban on new charter schools last year, the NAACP has revealed what it would take to get the civil rights group to support the privately run, publicly funded sector.