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Spending most of 2020 attending school virtually, students at a small charter school in Aurora are enjoying a new kind of class where everyone chooses what to learn. “It’s kind of boring to sit on a Zoom screen all day,” 14-year-old Karinne Jones said. “It feels good to just work on something I’m passionate about.” […]

Parents whose children are learning in person full time are the most pleased with the quality of their child’s education. The hybrid on/off approach, meanwhile, isn’t providing much more academic benefit than purely virtual instruction, according to parents. And while parents of fully virtual students are less satisfied than parents of kids attending school in

Professor Ann Farnsworth-Alvear hopes a $100 million donation over 10 years from the University of Pennsylvania to the city’s school district will only be the beginning of a longer conversation about how to properly fund schools. She along with other Penn professors and staff had pushed for months for their university to pay up to

Rising COVID cases are derailing plans by school districts across the country to reopen their buildings and pushing some schools that had opened to close once again. Just this week, the Detroit school district suspended all in-person learning until January. Health officials ordered schools in Indianapolis to do the same. Philadelphia put its plans to bring young students back

American high school seniors’ math scores didn’t improve between 2015 and 2019, while their reading scores fell, according to the latest round of federal test results. The scores highlight the country’s broader failure to boost student test scores over the last decade and the particular stubbornness of high school reading results, which have actually declined since the early 1990s.

The Government Accountability Office sounded a dire warning: One in three public school students — some 14 million — was learning in a building in need of extensive repair. In New Orleans, that meant rotting buildings with no air conditioning. In rural California, it meant difficult-to-maintain portable classrooms. America’s school facilities, one observer said, were

As the school year begins amid an ongoing pandemic and after a summer of racial reckoning, Social and Emotional Learning is going to hold special appeal to educators trying to help students heal from a range of painful losses. The idea behind this kind of learning, known as SEL, is that when students are calm,

John Oliver takes a look at how the history of race in America is taught in schools, how we can make those teachings more accurate, and why it’s in everyone’s best interest to understand the most realistic version of the past.

Student learning Good teachers are better at teaching students effectively. When teachers have access to continuous learning opportunities and professional development resources, they are better equipped to become good teachers — especially if their students have learning needs or are performing below or above grade level. Student achievement should be the goal of any teacher