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Japan Preschools Using Tablets to Prep Tots for Digital Age
It’s drawing time at this suburban nursery school in Japan, but instead of crayons, tiny fingers are tapping on colors…
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Can For-Profit Schools Revolutionize Education? One Entrepreneur Is Betting Yes.
As much as we (rightfully) decry the persistence of factory-style mass schooling, we should remember that this remnant of the…
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NAACP Chapter President Calls FL School District’s Active Shooter Drills a ‘Racist Act’
Active shooter drills held this week within the district had people of different races, backgrounds and gender, said District Superintendent…
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Tenure Rules in NJ Prove Stronger than Local School Board’s Authority to Fire a Teacher in ‘Blessed Cream’ Case
The teacher who applied "blessed cream" to the bare back of one of the boys he coached, has been ordered…
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New Kansas City KS Superintendent Said to Bring ‘No Excuses’ Approach and Turnaround Credentials
Already at age 10, Charles Foust was picking up on the way adults at school pigeonholed children. Read more here:…
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Feature: Should Students Be Allowed to Use Cellphones in Class?
In the classroom, teachers are up against an ever-growing hurdle in the smartphone era: commanding students’ attention as increasingly ubiquitous…
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Parents Accuse Schools of Using Child Protective Services As a Weapon against Them and Their Children
School employees in most states have a legal obligation to report any suspicion of abuse and neglect, and they can…
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Black Conservative Group Opposes ‘Purely Political’ Renaming of Detroit School Named for Ben Carson
Project 21 said the name-change effort, pushed by some board members, is a "purely political act which willfully ignores the…
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Education Establishment Advocate Beats Charter School Advocate in Race for CA Ed Chief
Assemblyman Tony Thurmond has won the race for California state superintendent of public instruction, defeating Marshall Tuck in the nonpartisan…
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Austin District Enrollment Tumbles by 1,600 Students
This year, the Austin district’s enrollment dropped by 1,574 students, the largest decline in six consecutive years of falling enrollment.
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Louisiana Governor Tells Teachers Union to Focus on 2019 Election
A year ahead of Louisiana’s gubernatorial election, incumbent John Bel Edwards delivered what sounded like an early draft of his…
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St. Paul District Agrees to $12,500 Settlement in Lawsuit over Education of English Language Learners
The lawsuit charged that the district was pushing non-native speakers into core high school academic classes with little or no…
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Kentucky Education Chief to Teachers: Stop ‘Hateful,’ ‘Nasty’ Emails
"This week, I’ve received the most hateful and disrespectful emails I’ve ever been sent, from people who teach Kentucky children,"…
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Kansas Governor-Elect Says She Would Repeal Law That Makes It Easier to Fire Bad Teachers
“I voted against eliminating due process for teachers and I would welcome a bill that repeals what we enacted in…
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Success Academy Charter’s Track Team Denied Recognition by High School Sports League
Success Academy’s running battle with the Department of Education has spilled over into athletics.
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Boston Students Staging Walkout to Protest School Closings and City Violence
Parents and activist groups are questioning the city’s plan to embark on a major school building plan under an interim…
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New Poll Shows 62% of Kentucky Voters Approve of Tax Credit Scholarship Programs
A new poll commissioned by EdChoice KY says more than 60 percent of Kentuckians approve of scholarship tax credits.
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Traffic Analytics Company Says Drivers Behave Badly Around Schools
Slow your roll, folks. Children have a hard time defending against 2,000-pound masses of metal.
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NYC’s Amazon Deal Will Boot 1,000 Public School Employees from Offices
Hundreds of public school staffers will lose their offices in New York’s Amazon deal, the Daily News has learned.
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U.S. Marshals Service Spending Millions on DeVos Security in Unusual Arrangement
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos began receiving around-the-clock security from the U.S. Marshals Service days after being confirmed, an armed detail…
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School Closures from California Wildfires This Week Have Kept More Than a Million Kids Home
Amid towering flames and clouds of toxic air pollution, more than 1 million public school students have been sent home…
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New Orleans Board Announces Plans to Close Four Charter Schools, ‘Chants Shouted at the School Board’
Emotions ran high as parents and teachers learned the fate of their children’s school programs.
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NC Teacher Charged with Having Sex with One of Her Former Elementary School Students
An anonymous tip led to the arrest a former North Carolina teacher on several charges for allegedly having sex with…
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Long Island NY School Evacuated after Bomb Threat
Frank P. Long Intermediate School in Bellport received a bomb threat Friday morning, forcing students to be evacuated, officials said.…
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Feature: All-Black Schools – A Blessing or a Curse? The Tide Could Be Shifting
The school used to be a source of pride for the city’s Black community, a stepping stone to middle-class achievement…
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