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A classroom sits empty ahead of the statewide school closures in Ohio in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, inside Milton-Union Exempted Village School District in West Milton, Ohio, U.S., March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Kyle Grillot REFILE - CORRECTING NAME OF SCHOOL

Understanding COVID-19-era enrollment drops among early-grade public school students

Daphna Bassok and Anna Shapiro

Monday, February 22, 2021

Students in Anne Lefler s fifth grade class at South Knoxville Elementary watch as President Joe Biden speaks to the nation in his inauguration speech on Wednesday, January 20, 2021.Kns Inauguration School Bp

A crash course in education politics for the Biden administration

Friday, February 19, 2021

The Sioux Falls School Board holds a special meeting to discuss changing policy for close contact quarantine on Wednesday, September 30, at the Instructional Planning Center in Sioux Falls.School Board Special Meeting 003

Who governs our public schools?

Vladimir Kogan, Stéphane Lavertu, and Zachary Peskowitz

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Lydia Stephens, owner/director of Montessori Life preschool, second from right, works with teacher Brandi Crawford, right, with the children at the preschool in Macedonia.Bob Montessory Life 4

Stabilizing child care requires more than emergency COVID-19 relief funds

Daphna Bassok, Anna Markowitz, and Laura Bellows

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Students eat lunch at Salusbury Primary School in northwest London

Schoolwide free-meal programs fuel better classroom outcomes for students

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Teaching assistant Maggie Morreale helps a student during online learning in a room turned into a school at the Franklin home of certified teacher Jessica Morreale on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. The Learning Cottage offers support for remote learning for 10 students.Remotelearning 01

Rethinking the geography of student-teaching placements in a post-COVID-19 world

Dan Goldhaber, John Krieg, and Roddy Theobald

Monday, February 8, 2021

A blackboard with math equations

After 30 years of reforms to improve math instruction, reasons for hope and dismay

Heather C. Hill

Thursday, February 4, 2021

A school crossing guard holds a bus as a woman and child cross the street towards Public school 7 Louis F. Simeone in the Queens borough of New York, NY, December 8, 2020. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that public pre-K and elementary schools can return to in-person learning on Dec. 7., while middle and high schools remain closed; Schools were closed on Nov. 18 when the city surpassed the 3% infection rate threshold set by the Mayor de Blasio. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

4 steps to safely reopen schools and save our nation

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

People walk outside Hostos Community College in the Bronx borough of New York, U.S., December 16, 2017. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Stackable credentials can open doors to new career opportunities

Katharine Meyer and Ben Castleman

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Douglas Austen Jensen of Iowa, a supporter of President Donald Trump wearing a QAnon shirt, confronts police as Trump supporters demonstrate on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol near the entrance to the Senate after breaching security defenses, in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Theiler

We’ve built schools for a modern economy—but they overlook the challenges of our modern democracy

Monday, February 1, 2021

Knox County Schools Superintendent Bob Thomas speaks with Gresham Middle principal Donna Parker as they tour the school during the first day of the new semester on Tuesday, January 5, 2021.Kns Kcs Firstday Bp

How can school superintendents lead during the COVID-19 crisis?

Paul T. Hill and Ashley Jochim

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Thomas Coverson, 19, a freshman at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, explains his passion for the history of the civil rights movement in front of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech" at Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, January 8, 2009. Barack Obama's election as the first black U.S. president has rekindled interest in the U.S. civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s at a time of continuing wide disparities in income, education and health care between whites and minority groups. Picture taken January 8, 2009. REUTERS/Andrea Shalal-Esa (UNITED STATES)

When it comes to student success, HBCUs do more with less

Monday, January 18, 2021

Catalina Chavez, center, an "English as a new language" teacher works with sophomore Vanessa Mejia, who came to the country two months ago from Guatemala, during Eartth Science class at Roosevelt High School - Early College Studies Nov. 7, 2019 in Yonkers. Fuad Alhomidi, a student from Yemen, works beside them.Secondary

As we tackle school segregation, don’t forget about English Learner students

Diana Quintero and Michael Hansen

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife Jill wave to the crowd after speaking at his election rally, after the news media announced that Biden has won the 2020 U.S. presidential election over President Donald Trump, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

The Biden presidency and a new direction in education policy

Kenneth K. Wong

Thursday, December 17, 2020

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks to reporters about efforts to confront the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic after meeting with members of his Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC2TZJ96K6IA

The next education secretary must know about much more than education

Tuesday, December 8, 2020