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The pandemic robbed thousands of New York City children of parents. Many aren’t getting the help they need

The pandemic robbed thousands of New York City children of parents. Many aren’t getting the help they need

Students and their families describe a lack of mental health services to help them cope with grief

Is a ‘DARPA for education’ finally happening?

Is a ‘DARPA for education’ finally happening?

PROOF POINTS: Federal funds to combat pandemic learning loss don’t reflect need

PROOF POINTS: Federal funds to combat pandemic learning loss don’t reflect need

The problem child care subsidies can’t solve: the shrinking provider pool

The problem child care subsidies can’t solve: the shrinking provider pool

OPINION: Growing up in the South, I had no chance to learn my own heritage and culture

OPINION: Growing up in the South, I had no chance to learn my own heritage and culture

EDUCATIon suspended series

When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

Civil rights at stake: Black, Hispanic students blocked from class for missing class

Civil rights at stake: Black, Hispanic students blocked from class for missing class

Many schools find ways to solve absenteeism without suspensions

Many schools find ways to solve absenteeism without suspensions

Inside our analysis of attendance-related suspensions in Arizona

Inside our analysis of attendance-related suspensions in Arizona

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Muchas escuelas encuentran modos de resolver el problema del ausentismo sin suspensiones

Derechos civiles en riesgo: Estudiantes afroamericanos y latinos son suspendidos más por faltar a clase.

Cuando el castigo es el mismo que el delito: Suspendido por faltar a clase

OPINION: Can we please stop talking about so-called learning loss?

I wish a bot were smart enough to write this column

PROOF POINTS: One expert on what students do wrong

What’s a college degree worth? States start to demand colleges share the data.

COLUMN: Pop quiz: What state just banned an AP African American studies course?

Climate change vs schools

Climate change is already affecting America’s children, disrupting their learning and devastating school infrastructure. We explore its future toll on kids and how the education system can adapt.

Climate change is sabotaging education for America’s students – and it’s only going to get worse

Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change

READ OUR CLIMATE CHANGE SERIES

Child care in shambles

The coronavirus pandemic has strained the already fragile child care industry. Without government support, it’s likely to topple.

New study: Spending more time in a child care center does not lead to problem behavior for kids

OPINION: Child care providers shouldn’t have to go hungry to feed the American economy

Help us track child care challenges

Finding child care is still impossible for many parents

The Sold A Story podcast

For more than a generation, children have been taught to read using the “three cueing system,” even though it was debunked by cognitive scientists decades ago. In this new American Public Media podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this approach and the company that sells their work.

Sold a story: How teaching kids to read went so wrong

Sold a story: How teaching kids to read went so wrong

The reading instruction pioneer who was wrong

The reading instruction pioneer who was wrong

In the battle over reading instruction, a U.S. president faces off against influential authors

In the battle over reading instruction, a U.S. president faces off against influential authors

Why the author of reading instruction ‘bibles’ got her advice wrong

A company has made millions selling books on reading instruction rooted in bad science

Why are some publishers still selling products that contain debunked ideas about reading instruction?

the response

Inside the podcast that reignited the reading wars

‘Sold a story’ investigates how a faulty method of literacy instruction took hold, sparking anger, questions and concerns

OPINION: A call for rejecting the newest reading wars

Fifty-eight educators say ‘Sold a Story’ podcast series sells incomplete story about reading instruction

OPINION: For the students we wish we’d taught better

More than 650 teachers urge balanced literacy leaders to reckon with research

OPINION: Parents say enough with the strawmen, fix reading education based on the science

‘We all possess Ph.D.s in our children, and we see their struggle’

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EARLY CHILDHOOD

Finding hard-to-reach parents at the pediatrician’s office

Finding hard-to-reach parents at the pediatrician’s office

NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading

With little federal support for families, states are stepping up

More Early Childhood

Elementary to High School

What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

Inside the new middle school math crisis

More Elementary to High School

Higher education

With student pool shrinking, some predict a grim year of college closings

With student pool shrinking, some predict a grim year of college closings

Bachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape — and it’s getting worse

COLUMN: ‘I did all of it,’ acknowledges mastermind of breathtaking college admissions scandal

More Higher Education

VOICES: Students, teachers, principals and experts weigh in

OPINION: Let’s help our middle schoolers learn from their digital worlds

OPINION: Why the U.S. must recognize and support caregiving students in middle and high schools

TEACHER VOICE: Educators need more resources, skills and partnerships to bring the world into their classrooms

TEACHER VOICE: Educators need more resources, skills and partnerships to bring the world into their classrooms

OPINION: Why the national teacher shortage is really a distribution problem

OPINION: One way to solve the education crisis: Pay students to go to school

OPINION: Why veterans should not be overlooked at selective colleges

OPINION: Why veterans should not be overlooked at selective colleges

COLUMN: There’s a lot of new federal money for greening K-12 education. This is how schools could use it

OPINION: We must address Covid-related grief and other pandemic impacts on children

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