Cellphones in schools – more states are taking action to reduce student distraction without eliminating tech access

More school systems are providing digital devices for students to use in the classroom, making it harder to justify students ...

Many US states are rethinking how students use cellphones, but digital tech still has a place in the classroom

Across the United States, more schools are implementing policies restricting cell phones as concerns about digital ...

Worthington District 518 embarks on new literacy curriculum, training

In 2023, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed into law the Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act, more commonly referred to as the READ Act. According to the Minnesota Department of Education website, ...
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Twenty Years After Katrina, the City’s All-Charter Schools System Is Failing Many Families

To mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, numerous articles and opinion pieces have ...

New England schools are failing — and ‘nobody seems to care’

When Newport City Elementary School began reforming as it came out of the pandemic, it was starting from a difficult place.

Why Ontario parents and teachers loathe split grades — and what you don’t see behind the scenes

With nearly 60% of TDSB classrooms combining two, three or even more grades, parents are frustrated. “This isn’t ‘Little ...
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How microschools are giving rural families more educational options

The 74 reports Indiana's new microschool network will offer rural families educational choices similar to urban areas, ...

How the Thunder helped heal Oklahoma City from 30 years of terror

ON A WEDNESDAY morning a little more than 30 years ago, before his mother left for work in downtown Oklahoma City, a boy named Kyle Genzer told her he loved her. It was a sunny, cloudless day. "Like ...