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College enrollment just keeps falling
College enrollment continues to fall, according to a report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The number of...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 22, 20221 min read
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Public schools are losing white, middle-class students
Urban school districts are losing students, writes Matt Welch, a public school parent in New York City, in Reason. White, middle-class...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 4, 20222 min read
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Learning builds resilience
It's a mistake to put "social-emotional learning" ahead of academic learning, writes Eva Moskowitz, who created the high-performing...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 19, 20221 min read
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Closing schools was a 'wrecking ball'
"The pandemic was a wrecking ball for U.S. public education," concludes the Center for Reinventing Public Education in The State of the...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 19, 20222 min read
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California: 28% switched schools in pandemic
Twenty-eight percent of California parents moved their child to a new school during the pandemic and another 28 percent are considering a...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 15, 20221 min read
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Restless in Seattle: Asians, achievers are 'quiet quitting' public schools
Asian-American and affluent parents are"quiet quitting" Seattle Public Schools, writes Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat. Overall,...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 15, 20222 min read
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Saving Xavier
Xavier Byrd, who likes to tinker with old machines and build contraptions, dreamed of being an aerospace engineer, writes Perry Stein in...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 13, 20221 min read
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After a year of not really learning, more kids repeat a grade
More students are repeating a grade, report Brooke Schultz and Heather Hollingsworth for Associated Press. Parents are asking "for...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 13, 20222 min read
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Feckless
The sharp drop in math and reading scores is the result of "feckless" pandemic policies that kept schools closed, writes Andrew Rotherham...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 7, 20221 min read
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Tutoring is free, but few NH families sign up
New Hampshire is giving parents $1,000 per student to pay for tutoring, but not many have signed up for the Yes, Every Student...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 6, 20221 min read
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Black kids are a year farther behind in math: That matters, right?
Math scores for Black nine-year-olds dropped by 13 points compared to 2020, representing a year's worth of learning, reports the...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 6, 20222 min read
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Graduation rates fall, especially for needy students
Graduation rates are down in at least 31 states, reports Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week. Low-income and special-needs students have...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 1, 20221 min read
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Down, down, down
The pandemic -- and the response to the pandemic -- was a disaster for students. We knew that, but now we really know that. Reading and...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 1, 20222 min read
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Parents want choices
Parents want education options, concludes Never Going Back, based on a Mary 22 Harris Poll for the National Alliance for Public Charter...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 26, 20222 min read
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Already behind, students are asked to do less
Students fell behind in reading and math when schools closed, and they're not likely to catch up if teachers don't assign challenging...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 18, 20221 min read
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Where are the students?
Urban districts are reporting sharp drops in enrollments compared to pre-pandemic levels: New York City is down 8.3 percent. Chicago...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 17, 20221 min read
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Burned out at 18
More than a third of teenagers have changed their pre-pandemic college plans according to a recent EdChoice survey, report John Kristof...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 16, 20221 min read
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'Covid grads' aren't ready for college
A top student at his Milwaukee high school, Angel Hope won college scholarships and chose the University of Wisconsin at Madison, writes...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 11, 20222 min read
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'If things get hard, they just quit'
After three years of pandemic-disrupted schooling, students just don't care any more, complains a teacher on Chalkbeat's After the Bell...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 8, 20222 min read
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To keep kids healthy, keep them in class learning
School closures were a mistake, writes Joseph G. Allen, an associate professor and director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard's...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 6, 20222 min read
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