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What It Would Actually Look Like to Have an Officer in Every School

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What's Happening as the Oklahoma Teacher's Strike Enters Its Ninth Day

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How To Choose the Right School District For Your Kids

The Common Core Is Turning Kids Into Unemployable Machines

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My Fight for Universal Pre-K is My Fight for Kids

By Lizzy Francis

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Fire Drills Don't Terrify My Daughter School safety isn't a monolithic thing and shooters aren't just another threat.

I'm a Teacher from Oklahoma. This is Why I Plan on Striking "Let's put it that way: It's about more than just a raise for teachers; it's about an education system that is good for kids."

Betsy Devos Said Common Core Was ‘Dead’. It’s Not Even when states have revised standards, 'the core of the Common Core remains.'

Teaching Students the Power of Dissent Is Part of a Healthy Democracy After the Parkland shooting, we have to understand that protest is a responsibility of citizenship.

America Can Afford Preschool Unfortunately, the systems used to fund early childhood education don't make sense on a national basis.

West Virginia Parents Had Teachers' Backs The West Virginia Senate bowed to pressure as an entire state demanded that teachers be fairly compensated.

Congress Might Make College Even More Expensive Congress may be about to make college even more expensive.

School Need to Do More to Tackle Student Mental Health More schools should adopt proactive, universal screening tools.

How Personalized Learning Transformed My Classroom and My Students My students are not expected to disappear into the cultural melting pot the way I was.

Why Trump’s Idea to Arm Teachers Is Far Too Risky There are countless risks to keeping guns in the classroom, and any potential benefits hardly outweigh them.

Let's Give Teachers Broadswords It’s one thing for a student to suspect their teacher is packing and another to watch a gym teacher drag a five-foot claymore across the cafeteria.

Better School Fitness Programs Create Smarter Kids Physical fitness has been definitively tied to improved academic achievement and schools are starting to take notice.

Budgets Are Preventing Teachers From Preparing Kids for the Jobs of the Future Many educators say meager budgets prevent them from developing new ways of teaching emerging skills.

Data Shows That Preschool Helps. Period. The U.S. government invests $37 billion per year on early childhood programs. And it’s working.

Elementary Homework is Likely as Worthless as it Seems A powerful combination of superstition and questionable research ensures young kids hit the books instead of just, you know, reading them.

Chronic Absenteeism is the Elephant Not in the Room A scandal rocking a D.C. public school reveals a widespread problem with truancy in the American educational system.

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