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COLUMN: Students are supposed to read The Scarlet Letter, not wear it
Shaming students is keeping schools from teaching them
COLUMN: Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students
Potential signs of long-lasting problems for low-achieving students
COLUMN: Bold, progressive ideas aren’t unrealistic
Old-school Democrats should embrace ambitious policies, as the working-class whites they covet do
COLUMN: The problem with high-stakes testing and women in STEM
NYC high school entrance exam finds brightest girls do better in STEM classes than on standardized entrance exams
COLUMN: 10 of the most important stories about education research in 2018
Insights into implicit bias in the classroom, declining numbers of students and educating immigrant students
Schools need to step up to fight a rise in suicides among black children
Suicide rates for black children have doubled; we need to find out why and do something about it
COLUMN: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation
A 2018 federal report found that only 18 percent of the innovations funded by the Education Department lifted student achievement
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COLUMN: Charter school leaders should talk more about racism
Praising charters for “doing more with less” ignores how racist systems have devalued black communities, starving kids in both traditional and charter schools of resources
COLUMN: The debate over students with disabilities, suspensions and race
New research finds that disabilities might have nothing to do with why black students are suspended more than white students
COLUMN: For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns
Students who feel disconnected from their community are more likely to lash out