By Zack Barnes
July 17, 2017
It’s so easy to demonize others: people on the other side of political issues, borders, the railroad tracks.
DC School Reform Now is educating, organizing and advocating to build support for public education strategies that prepare kids to become college and career ready.
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By Quinn Simpson
July 17, 2017
When you imagine a classroom, it’s quite likely you picture a teacher at the front talking passionately about a specific subject to students sitting in rows of desks. It’s been like this since the beginning of formal education, and it largely stays like this because it works.
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By Martin Austermuhle
July 13, 2017
A new regulation will prohibit current and former D.C. officials from requesting that their children be placed in schools without having to go through the annual admissions lottery.
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07/31/2017
By Kate McGee
July 13, 2017
Many low-income students and their families struggle in the summer months to balance work and childcare and that can make it hard to fit in reading and math reinforcement. Overwhelming research shows if students and their families aren’t practicing those skills over the summer, students can forget what they’ve learned. It’s known as the “summer slide.” That can make the fall difficult.
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By Kate Stringer
July 12, 2017
Social-emotional learning programs have positive long-term effects, helping students well into their futures in areas like college completion and sexual and mental health. Students with SEL training scored 13 points higher academically than their peers 3.5 years later, had 6 percent better high school graduation rates, and could even reap lifelong monetary benefits for their healthy adult lifestyle
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By Margaret Gilmour
July 11, 2017
By the time my younger son is midway through third grade, I realize that his academic progress has stalled. He’s stuck somewhere between kindergarten and first grade.
School is a struggle for him. He has a language-based learning disability, which affects how long it takes for him to process new information before he can respond.
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07/31/2017
By Ethan Gray
July 10, 2017
Education policy reforms are only as good as the governance systems that promote and monitor them.
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By Erica L. Green
July 7, 2017
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who made a career of promoting local control of education, has signaled a surprisingly hard-line approach to carrying out an expansive new federal education law, issuing critical feedback that has rattled state school chiefs and conservative education experts alike.
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By Antwan Wilson
July 6, 2017
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By Kevin Mahnken
July 4, 2017
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By Emma Brown
July 3, 2017
CHICAGO — To graduate from a public high school in Chicago, students will soon have to meet a new and unusual requirement: They must show that they’ve secured a job or received a letter of acceptance to college, a trade apprenticeship, a gap year program or the military.
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07/31/2017
By Cara Fitzpatrick
June 30, 2017
She applied her “listen-to-me lipstick,” a hot pink that commanded attention, and got into her Toyota 4Runner for the long drive to Fairmount Park Elementary. It was time for some frank talk with the teachers who were struggling in one of Pinellas County’s toughest schools.
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