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Columnists, Higher Education

A ‘promising’ way to help low-income students to and through college

by Stephen Burd March 25, 2015April 8, 2021

Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, News

Tools that use student data show promise, but concerns about student privacy remain hotly debated

by Nichole Dobo March 25, 2015April 8, 2021

Senior Ryan Felder (left) and sophomore Alex Borst (right) created the student group "Students for Chancellor Jones," which calls for the IHL board to reinstate the chancellor.

Higher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

Students demand answers after Ole Miss board ousts chancellor

by Kayleigh Skinner March 24, 2015April 8, 2021

Wednesday, March 19: At Ridley HS, students sit in the hallways tapping out homework assignments on their cell phones to submit through cloud-based software. Here, in a hallway near the school's main office. seniors Libby Alfieri , left, and Kellie O'Brien, right, use their portable electronic devices i.e. iPad and iPhone as they complete school work between classes.

Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, News

As market surges, schools struggle to find the best tech products

by Meghan E. Murphy March 24, 2015April 8, 2021

The measured achievement gap between the students in this Revere High School English as a Second Language class and their English-speaking peers is likely to balloon with the introduction of the PARCC exam. From left, clockwise, are Mateo López and Nataly Gómez, both from Colombia; Amanda Moreira, from Brazil; and Maria Hernández, from Honduras.

Common Core, Elementary to High School, News

Common Core tests will widen achievement gap — at first

by Tara García Mathewson March 24, 2015March 30, 2020

K. Butler, right of Benton, Miss., and Lynn Wagner of Hickory, second from right, speak to school children from Meridian as they are guided past their Opponents of Common Core table in the rotunda of the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. The group is one of several statewide that are against a national standards Initiative that sets Math and English curriculum in every participating state at the same level. Various opposing groups lobby visiting school children, visitors and lawmakers into opposing the standards in Mississippi. Opponents have provided coffee, morning pastries and water several times during the session in an effort to promote a Senate bill that would repeal Common Core in Mississippi.

Andre Perry, Columnists, Common Core, Elementary to High School, New Orleans, The South

How Common Core serves white folks a sliver of the black experience

by Andre Perry March 24, 2015October 21, 2020

Steinhauser: Christopher Steinhauser has been the superintendent of Long Beach Unified School District for 13 years.

California, Elementary to High School, News, The West

How one California superintendent changed troubled schools

by Lillian Mongeau Hughes March 23, 2015October 21, 2020

Columnists, Education by the Numbers, Future of Learning, Higher Education, Proof Points

Newer studies say online instruction neither harms nor benefits the average university student

by Jill Barshay March 23, 2015April 8, 2021

Sandra King, center, and Lori Yuan, pass out fliers in opposition to the parent trigger campaign at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif. in February 2012. King and Yuan were among parents who ran a counter-campaign opposing the trigger push. They argued the parent trigger law was really a corporate-backed privatization tool under the guise of parent empowerment.

California, Elementary to High School, News, The West

Parent-trigger showdowns loom nationwide

by Natasha Lindstrom March 20, 2015October 21, 2020

Elementary to High School, Opinion

Teachers can’t transform urban schools without studying communities

by Etta Hollins March 19, 2015March 30, 2020