EDUCATION
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Southern States Boost Early Reading, But Gains Stall in Middle School
Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee started reforms later and may need more time. But McGrath’s question remains. Researchers and literacy advocates…
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Key Oversight Helping Keep Student Loan Records Accurate Has stopped, Watchdog Says
“Instead of providing relief to 43 million Americans who are drowning in student debt,” Sanders said in a statement to…
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How Finnish Education Inspires U.S. Schools, Still
The parent community also wanted more skilled trades and culinary arts in the day-to-day curriculum, Laho said. For example, parents…
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How Can Character Count in Sports When Winning is Everything?
“Most sports are about motor skills, not moral skills,” Stoll told me. “It doesn’t magically happen because you are walking…
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Why the Focus on Willpower Backfires with Kids
And in the process, they’ve found easier and more effective ways for parents to handle the tsunami of temptations in…
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College Students, Professors are Making Their Own AI Rules. They Don’t Always Agree
“It’s not fair to them,” Cryer says. More than three years after ChatGPT debuted, generative AI has become a part…
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Four Habits to Help Teens Build Better Habits
Another teenager longs to give up junk food. He can start to make this food invisible by storing the chips…
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Parents Trust Report Cards More Than Standardized Test Scores — With Consequences for Kids
The findings appear in a draft paper that has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal and may still…
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When Difference Can School Size Make in a Student’s Life?
The longer-term picture is more sobering. Although more students enrolled in both four- and two-year colleges, small school alumni did…
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How School Boards Can Bring Differing Views Together
Episode Transcript This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. Marlena Jackson-Retondo: So…
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