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Stalled talks

With talks on Chicago teachers contract stalled, union heads for a mediator
Chicago
13 hours ago

shift

Tennessee
Updated 14 hours ago

Days after historic House vote, education voucher plan clears Tennessee Senate


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food fight

National
13 hours ago

Lots of American families are struggling with student lunch debt. What’s the solution?

small step

Indiana
14 hours ago

Looking to reach children statewide, Indiana expands its pre-K voucher program

warning shot

Indiana
1 day ago

‘A shot across the bow’: Indiana cuts back on public funding for virtual charter schools

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Colorado
2 days ago

I’m a Denver principal who’s watched too many colleagues leave. Here’s how our new superintendent could help.

Principals feel undervalued, and too often my peers are placed into their roles and not offered enough support when it gets tough.

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Tennessee
3 days ago

As the parent of African-American kids, this is what I want from Memphis’s next superintendent

I know superintendents come and go. Still, I hope our next schools chief can improve a system that often feels like it operates to keep certain communities in power.

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Colorado
3 days ago

I worry my students are always on high alert. Here’s how I try to help.

We reminded students that even with the bad in the world, there is still more good. And then we let them go back to being teens.

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Turning up the heat

Chicago
8 hours ago

Teachers at five Chicago charter and contract schools poised to walk out Wednesday

Teachers at five charter and contract schools could walk out on their jobs Wednesday if a deal isn’t reached in bargaining sessions for a new contract.

Superintendent search

Tennessee
10 hours ago

Joris Ray wants to be superintendent of Shelby County Schools. Here’s what we know about him.

Joris Ray was only three years out of college when his principal pulled him out of the classroom to help establish a more welcoming and stable culture.

Status quo

Colorado
11 hours ago

Colorado’s teacher evaluation system won’t get a makeover this year

An effort to change Colorado’s teacher evaluation system landed in limbo Thursday as a Senate committee postponed action on the bill beyond the…

the chopping block

New York
12 hours ago

Renewal schools’ longer days a casualty of budget cuts, but social workers for homeless students now in New York City’s plans

Newly added to New York City’s proposed budget for next year: more counselors for homeless students.Newly cut: extra time in class for students at some of the city's most struggling schools. Not in the mix: higher pay for thousands of early childhood educators who are threatening to strike.

How I Teach

How I Teach

New York
April 17, 2019

Helping students master the art of professionalism and other life skills in NYC’s culinary industry

How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their…

How I Teach

Newark
April 9, 2019

Feeling ‘cheated’ by her own schooling, this award-winning N.J. math teacher tried to become the teacher she never had

After Carolyn Garcia realized she had been "ill-prepared" for college, she decided to become "an educator of the kind I never had."

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Colorado
April 8, 2019

‘I’m the adult’: Why this Colorado English teacher never gives up on her students

This Colorado teacher talks about what mantra she repeats daily, how she helped students rethink stereotypes, and why she sometimes has to “walk around the trash can.”