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A voter fills out her ballot to vote in the Super Tuesday election at Sleepy Hollow Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia

Test scores and school boards: Why election timing matters

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

A student at Walter H. Dyett High School walks through the hallway in Chicago, Illinois, in this photo taken on October 5, 2012. The bipartisan education reform movement sweeping the nation calls for rating schools by their students' test scores and then taking drastic steps to overhaul the worst performers by firing the teachers, turning the schools over to private management or shutting them down altogether. But in communities across the United States, anger at school closures is rising. REUTERS/Jim Young

The insidiousness of unconscious bias in schools

Seth Gershenson and Thomas S. Dee

Monday, March 20, 2017

A school bus sits parked along a street in the Queens borough of New York January 16, 2013. For the first time in 34 years, New York City bus drivers went on strike, stranding up to 152,000 students in the nation's largest public school system on sleet-soaked Wednesday morning. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR3CJ15

Are vouchers the solution to America’s school choice debate?

Friday, March 17, 2017

A Newark Prep Charter School student listens to math teacher Faiza Sheikh, give a lesson at the school in Newark, New Jersey April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Immigrant teachers play a critical role in American schools

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner Ajit Pai speaks at a FCC Net Neutrality hearing in Washington February 26, 2015. The FCC is expected Thursday to approve Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposed "net neutrality" rules, regulating broadband providers more heavily than in the past and restricting their power to control download speeds on the web. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

2017: E-Rate’s make or break year

Joshua Bleiberg

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Teacher Jaclyn Kruljac speaks to her students in 5th grade class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013. According to officials in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, possible consequences of impending across-the-board U.S. government budget cuts, Illinois will lose approximately $33.4 million in education, putting around 460 teacher and aide jobs at risk that would receive funding. REUTERS/Jim Young

Another reason to stop ignoring teacher pensions

Marguerite Roza

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Children play in the playground area at the Frederick, Maryland Head Start facility March 13, 2012. When officials in Frederick County, Maryland voted last year to stop paying for the local Head Start preschool program, they pointed to a nearly $12 million projected budget shortfall as proof that the mostly rural county could no longer afford it. Picture taken March 13, 2012. To match story USA-EDUCATION/HEADSTART REUTERS/Gary Cameron

A troubling contagion: The rural 4-day school week

Paul T. Hill and Georgia Heyward

Friday, March 3, 2017

Armando Dominguez teaches 7th and 8th grade students as they participate in the bilingual, project lead the way class at Vieau Middle School in Milwaukee Wisconsin

Educational equality and excellence will drive a stronger economy

Thursday, March 2, 2017

A gender-neutral bathroom is seen at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California September 30, 2014. The University of California will designate gender-neutral restrooms at its 10 campuses to accommodate transgender students, in a move that may be the first of its kind for a system of colleges in the United States. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

After Trump rescinds Title IX guidance, what’s next for transgender students’ rights?

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

A professor tries to stop striking students from disrupting her class at Complutense University on the second day of a 48-hour student strike to protest against rising fees and educational cuts in Madrid March 27, 2014.

The problem with measuring effects of delinquent peers in education

Thomas Ahn and Justin Trogdon

Friday, February 24, 2017

Students listen to their professor at a community college.

Has the time come for personalized higher education?

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

A student walks past the entrance of Brigham Young University in Provo

Rock-bottom social mobility score surprises BYU community

Friday, February 17, 2017

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Repealing ESSA rule raises implementation, transparency concerns

Lauren Bauer and Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Students at Rose Hill Elementary School (L-R) Alexis Reubenstein, Delmy Roman-Sanchez and Jesus Anguiano participate in a running race during physical education class in Commerce City, Colorado May 1, 2012.

A new way to measure the benefits of school recess

Elizabeth Cushing

Monday, February 13, 2017

First grader Adam Kotzian (C) does a spelling drill with classmates in his classroom at Eagleview Elementary school in Thornton, Colorado March 31, 2010.

Finding common ground for the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights

Sunil Mansukhani

Wednesday, February 8, 2017