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Why Teachers Don’t Use the High-Quality Instructional Materials They’re Given

Steiner: Educators don’t believe their students can manage the rigor of grade-level instruction, and they're not wrong. What can be done about it

David Steiner
Author: David Steiner
math equity
algebra

Three Reasons Why So Few Eighth Graders in the Poorest Schools Take Algebra

Surveys find access to algebra is only one problem in schools where teaching quality is ‘less optimal.’

Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report
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What Happens When Large Numbers of Teachers Quit a School? And What Can Be Done?

Jabbar & Holme: Our 4-year study of teacher turnover examined team dynamics, reform efforts and what schools are doing, or could be doing, to cope

Huriya Jabbar & Jennifer Holme
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Big-City Districts Are Beset by Financial Dysfunction — and Kids Pay the Price

Roza & Cicco: Students need adults to figure this out with strong district leadership, state guidance and brutal honesty about what's really going on.

Marguerite Roza & Maggie Cicco
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Chicago Is Running Out of Money. Its Teachers Union Wants 9% Raises Anyway

Aldeman: The district has hired 2,000 teachers since 2018 and is paying them 16% more even as enrollment dropped by 38,000 students.

Chad Aldeman
Author: Chad Aldeman
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Louisiana Pilot Program Tests New Kind of Reading Exam That Could Be a Model

Chad Aldeman
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Good Student-Teacher Relationships Spiked During COVID. How to Get Them Back

Hunter Gehlbach & Li Li
Class Disrupted

Reimagining School: An Expert’s Take on Unbundling the Core Education Experience

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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$3 Million Question: Do Skills Taught in Schools Really Lead to Success in Life?

Matt Chingos
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Schools Can Close Summer Learning Gaps with These 4 Strategies

Rhea Almeida
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How Does a School District Go Broke With $1.1B in Revenues? When It Spends $1.3B

Chad Aldeman
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For Stronger Readers in Third Grade, Start Building Knowledge in Preschool

Susan B. Neuman & Lily Wong Fillmore
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How Is Camden’s Innovative School System Moving the Needle for Students?

Laura Waters
fiscal cliff

Closing Campuses: How Much Money Does It Save School Districts, Anyway?

Marguerite Roza & Aashish Dhammani
Class Disrupted

How Kids Learn: A Gap Between Schools’ Teaching Models & Latest Learning Science

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Investing in Education R&D Is Essential — and It’s Not Just About Numbers

Rachel Dinkes & Beth Boulay
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Microschools Offer Montana Families Creative, Learner-Centered Education Options

Kerry McDonald
A Nation At Risk +40

40 Years After ‘A Nation at Risk,’ Using Schools as Local Laboratories

Eric Bettinger
Future of High School

New York City’s First Hybrid School Gives Students Flexible, Real-World Learning

Andrew Bauld
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Interactive: In Many Schools, Declines in Student Enrollment are Here to Stay 

Chad Aldeman
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When Public Schools Keep Certain Students Out — or Make Them Pay to Attend

Jude Schwalbach
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How Well Do Schools, Families Communicate? Study Sees Parent-District Disconnect

Jon Deane
A Way Forward for Schools After COVID

What the End of ‘College for All’ Means for the Future of America’s High Schools

Chelsea Waite
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Gaps Widening Between Indiana’s Highest- and Lowest-Performing Students

Chad Aldeman
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Rural Students’ Access to Wi-Fi is in Jeopardy as Pandemic-Era Resources Recede

Gabriel E. Hales & Keith N. Hampton
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