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Educators at the Making Waves Academy knew they wanted to teach high school students to be good communicators, problem solvers and critical thinkers to succeed in a rapidly changing world. English and math still matter, said Patrick…

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Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon , are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points accumulated from assignments and tests…

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In 1977, Karen Hawley Miles’ family left Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Washington, D.C. She was a junior in high school, a particularly rough time to be uprooted from her friends and neighborhood. Still, she appreciated the reason the…

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This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. A few years back, a groundswell of Brooklyn parents in District 13 wanted to ditch gifted and talented classes, concerned about sorting and segregating children starting in kindergarten.…

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In education, sometimes the most important things are the least glamorous. Student assessment and school accountability rarely make headlines the way new spending proposals or sweeping initiatives do. No fireworks. No standing ovations.…

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In February, the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) announced it would shutter its on-campus child care center, which has operated for nearly 40 years, at the end of the spring semester.The decision caused a weeks-long uproar on campus,…