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We’re thrilled to be launching a special project nine months in the making: Saving schools in America’s fastest-shrinking city, Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Check out the series here, where we'll be publishing dispatches all week long
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America's homeless student crisis — a 70 percent increase over the past decade in our public schools. More key numbers:
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We are gathering reports of post-Trump school bullying. Email us incidents at bullying
@the74million
.org.
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The American Rescue Plan requires states to set aside 1%, or about $1.2B total, for summer learning. “This means every state must use part of their education funding to increase summer slots for kids,” said
@ChrisMurphyCT
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Kids in Flint, Michigan, need heroes. 10-year-old
@LittleMissFLint
took 800 of them to see Black Panther. She’s their hero too.
#edchat
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@MomsDemand
founder
@shannonrwatts
on the power of mom-led activism: ‘The system is not set up in this country for overnight change. The system is set up for people to get involved in democracy’
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Trump must speak out NOW against rise in post-election school bullying. Email us incidents bullying
@the74million
.org
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@BrianKisida
&
@BowenDanH
: Can learning about the Holocaust increase students’ tolerance and respect for the “other”? Yes — but their parents’ level of education makes a huge difference
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BREAKING: First post-COVID NAEP scores show widespread losses in reading and math during the pandemic
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WATCH: New York City kids hang rainbows in their front windows to give share hope during pandemic
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SCOTUS ‘pissed off the wrong generation:’ Gen Z activists protest threat to abortion rights
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What NYC's schools chief doesn't understand about his own gifted and talented program....and why parents should be worried about setting the bar too low in our classrooms
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@IStandWithAhmed
: I want to be the Martin Luther King of this generation.
#IStandWithAhmed
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Despite pandemic, 12-year-old scientist built a lab in her garage, conducted socially distanced trials and won the nation's largest middle school science contest for her study of color, vision and the human brain. A $25,000 prize goes with it
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For the 800 Flint, Michigan kids that got free Black Panther movie tickets, this 10-year-old who raised $16,000 to pay for them is the real superhero.
#edchat
@LittleMissFLint
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Florida officials launch investigation after viral video shows campus cop bodyslam student, reigniting calls for police-free schools
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Hassan & Murphy: We urge our Senate colleagues to approve more aid for schools — and $11 billion for students with disabilities — in the next COVID-19 relief bill
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Seven inspirational speeches for the class of 2018, featuring
@Oprah
,
@AbbyWambach
,
@chadwickboseman
and
@RonanFarrow
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Kids in Flint, Michigan, need heroes. 10-year-old
@LittleMissFLint
took 800 of them to see Black Panther. She’s their hero too.
#edchat
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As Louisiana debates NOLA school district changes, some fear that
#edreforms
will roll back.
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@SenatorHassan
&
@ChrisMurphyCT
: Schools need help. Robust additional funding for all students is critical. So is continuing our commitment to students with disabilities, protecting gains we have made and pushing for greater progress in the future
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As a more contagious strain of COVID-19 doubles its U.S. case totals every 10 days, schools should be prepared to “pivot quickly,"
@CIDRAP
director
@mtosterholm
tells
@small_asher
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Every founder has a startup story. Sal Khan’s, famously, starts in a closet.
#edchat
@khanacademy
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Like a prayer:
@Madonna
donates 100G to help
@DetroitPrep2016
charter school’s K-3 kids move from church basement to a building of their own
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Minority students are feeling a surge in bullying. Trump must speak out for decency/civility & address this crisis.
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D.C.'s traditional public school students post gains on
#PARCC
test, outperforming
#charterschools
.
#eddata
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Best-selling author and conservative thinker
@JonahNRO
argued for a more robustly patriotic approach to teaching civics and U.S. history at
@educationgadfly
’s Education 20/20 event
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ICYMI:
@Madonna
donates 100G to help
@DetroitPrep2016
charter school’s K-3 kids move from church basement to a building of their own
@The74
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The kindest cut: A Texas kindergartener was bullied over her short hair. So her teacher got a pixie cut to match
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Our conversation with
@IStandWithAhmed
: His suspension, federal lawsuit & fighting against black & Muslim injustice.
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“Our education system is not simply broken for Black and brown children; rather, it is constructed specifically to disadvantage them at every turn.”
—Philadelphia educator & advocate
@selmekki
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.
@HowardLFuller
: Call it “education reform” or whatever you want — the fight to make our schools work for our poorest families must continue. To stop is to dishonor Dr. King’s memory
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Bob Dorough, creator of
#SchoolhouseRock
, died this week at 94, but he'll always be remembered for teaching grammar and math to generations of children.
#edchat
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BREAKING: Long-term NAEP scores for 13-year-olds drop for first time since testing began in 1970s — ‘a matter for national concern,’ experts say
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The last senator on the fence comes out in support Betsy DeVos, who now appears to have 50 "ayes" for Monday's vote. Statement 👇
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Protests that followed the murder of George Floyd put a spotlight on the proliferation of campus cops. Now, Sen.
@ChrisMurphyCT
aims to derail the school-to-prison pipeline
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“If you’re concerned about staff exposure, then elementary schools aren’t that great,”
@GeoRebekah
of
@thecovidmonitor
told
@small_asher
about why the emerging consensus around in-person K-8 might be troubling to teachers
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@ASlavitt
,
@JohnMBridgeland
& McClellan: How higher education leaders can use
#COVIDSafeZones
to accelerate America’s vaccination push — and keep their campuses open
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New on
#TopSheet
: ‘Let the Youth Lead’: Student Activists Nationwide Demand Change After Parkland Shooting, via
@educationweek
.
#edchat
@AriannaProthero
@AndrewUjifusa
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Curriculum case study: How one rural Tennessee district doubled literacy in just two months
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“Andrew Yang came out and put the blame on the teachers union. I think that resonated with a lot of parents” —Daniela Jampel,
#keepNYCschoolsopen
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Grade inflation ‘persistent, systemic’ even prior to pandemic, ACT study finds
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Nevada student could have been prom king. But he gave the title, and the crown, to a classmate with autism instead
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Happy birthday to America's oldest (and most adorable) teacher, who turns 102 today!
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Kids in Flint, Michigan, need heroes. 10-year-old
@LittleMissFLint
took 800 of them to see Black Panther. She’s their hero too.
#edchat
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Williamson County, TN’s
@OneWillco
and
@WilliamsonStrg
push back against conservative
@Moms4LibertyWC
in critical upcoming school board election
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@MargueriteRoza
& Anderson: School boards face their most difficult budget season ever. Many are unprepared
@EdunomicsLab
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She was born into slavery, freed by her aunt, and dedicated her life to teaching black students. Meet Fanny Jackson Coppin, one of the 19th century’s great educators
#WomensHistoryMonth
(from 2018)
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"They know who he is because of these drawings”: Janitor wows students with intricate drawings on school whiteboards
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Want to improve student learning? Teach students how to collaborate, value their ideas and make them feel safe
@AspenSEAD
report says
#NationAtHope
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How one southern state is using the power of knowledge-rich schooling to promote excellence, provide equity, and inspire a passion for learning
@ClassroomWonder
#TNBestForAll
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Why high chronic absenteeism?
@NationalParents
’
@radiokeri
tells
@gtoppo
that students’ mental health is in crisis: “That is a major issue that I hear from parents every day. 'I can't get my kid up. They do not want to go.' ”
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WATCH: 13-year-old Delaware girl & 8-year-old sister read bedtime stories online every night for kids who have no one to read to them
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BREAKING: The nation’s report card shows largest drops ever recorded in 4th and 8th grade math
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@vkoganpolisci
: In an ideal world, the new
@NAEP_NCES
results would be a wakeup call for adults whose priorities seem to have shifted from student learning to culture wars
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See what made our sit-down with
@deray
one of the best 16 we had in 2016:
#edpolitics
#Voices4Ed
#edpolicy
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ICYMI: We launched LA's first and only Spanish-language education site today. Check out
@LASchoolReport
en Español!
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Twin brothers who just graduated from Harvard and UCLA medical schools used to pick grapes in the fields in California
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New Ken Burns
@PBS
documentary “Hiding in Plain Sight” premieres tonight, offering a painful view into an enduring problem grown worse during the pandemic
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After using
@khanacademy
test prep and online classroom tutorials, Long Beach Unified saw a 20 percentage point jump in its college-eligible seniors and 22-point gain on state math tests
@LBSchools
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Inspiring: Meet 8-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi, the pride of the third grade at P.S. 116 and New York State’s newest chess king
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Dad talk: After you feed, clothe, and shelter your kids, the next best thing you can do is read to them. There's (almost) no wrong way to do it, says
@ConorPWilliams
.
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No one would hire her. So she wrote Title IX and changed history for millions of women. Meet education trailblazer Patsy Mink
#WomensHistoryMonth
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KIPP launches first-of-its-kind alumni network to help its 30k graduates with careers, mental health and finances
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Inspiring news: 13-Year-Old Delaware girl & 8-year-old sister read bedtime stories online every night for kids who have no one to read to them
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“Sometimes [Brown v. Board is] presented as a singular good without people sitting with its more unsavory consequences,” said
@ClintSmithIII
. “As always, we have to hold and grapple with both”
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The Founders is here! Get your copy to learn how ed pioneers started an American revolution.
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Despite a rough first year, a tougher curriculum completely changed student literacy in a Tennessee school
@ClassroomWonder
#TNBestForAll
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BREAKING: Students in majority-black schools had been 9 months behind their white peers. New research shows the gap is now a full 12 months
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.
@ChrisMurphyCT
files amendment to block reported DeVos plan to use federal grants to arm teachers, says “more kids will be killed in schools if this policy is put in place”
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Teacher of the Year
@Nate_Bowling
is a gun owner. He thinks arming teachers “is asinine.”
#edchat
#MarchForOurLives
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I didn’t have a teacher who looked like me till college. Now I'm working to change that for the next generation
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"School librarians feel pressure to not follow their policies, to violate their code of ethics, their training ...
@FReadomFighters
wants to celebrate librarians, highlight how we do our work and help people be more informed." —Co-founder Carolyn Foote
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“Project-based learning has the potential to make students feel like they’re making a difference.” —
@nellkduke
#PBL
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Inspiring: A Texas 5-year-old was bullied over her short hair. So her kindergarten teacher got a pixie cut to match
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“He just commands the best out of you when you’re tired and you feel like you can't do anymore,”
@OberlinSchools
senior Caleb Peterson said about National
#teacheroftheyear
@kurtsenior
@CCSSO
#NTOY22
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Make our schools safe again: Why Donald Trump must speak out NOW against surge we're seeing in school bullying.
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How
@dailytarheel
visualized gun violence and captivated the nation: 'We wanted to tell the story of three hours and ten minutes'
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BREAKING:
@SAISD
’s innovation leader
@moh_choudhury
will be the next
@MdPublicSchools
state superintendent. The 74 has reported extensively on Choudhury's work in Texas over the past couple years: /thread
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Curriculum case study: How one rural Tennessee school district with 25 percent student literacy and nearly a quarter of kids living in poverty is turning the tide
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“Special education is very costly, but the cost of having someone who doesn’t graduate high school or enroll in college is also very high” — new study finds devastating results from Texas’s illegal special ed cap
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.
@SenJohnMcCain
’s fight to get educational choice for all Native American kids in Arizona.
#Voices4Ed
#edchat
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The kindest cut: A Texas 5-year-old was bullied over her short hair. So her kindergarten teacher got a pixie cut to match
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Unexpected mayoral front-runner Andrew Yang courts parents intent on reopening schools in crowded NYC race
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Analysis: Reconstruction is the most neglected era in social studies classrooms. “You risk being on very dangerous ground if you begin to make connections between Reconstruction and today," one teacher told researchers in new report
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12-year-old reporter Skye Oduaran has scored interviews with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock and others for
@KidsPress
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Students in Montgomery County, MD, have driven a policy change that could soon win them 3 excused absences a year to participate in civic activities like protests
@MoCo4Change
#civics
#hsgovchat
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Teaching democracy: How one school network has baked civics & activism into its DNA — and produced graduates who are more likely to vote
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Kansas high school art students take custodian as their muse — and produce amazing portrait of their ‘unsung hero’
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The 74 Interview: Do standards and project-based learning go hand in hand? Prof. Nell Duke says yes, and looks at the best and worst of PBL
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“We have to actively accelerate the pace of change inside the district,”
@JustinMBibb
told The 74. “I will consider it a failure of mine as mayor, if in the next decade, we don’t improve the quality of learning in our school system.”
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Juvenile justice reform, equitable funding among priorities for 2019 Teacher of the Year
@RodRobinsonRVA
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Former teacher and middle school principal
@JamaalBowmanNY
, who unseated 16-term Rep. Eliot Engel in June’s Democratic primary, cruised to election in New York’s 16th Congressional District
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