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Will Trump Accounts affect students’ financial aid? It’s still not clear
This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Top Takeaways Since Oct. 1, the U.S. Treasury Department has been automatically creating Trump Accounts for eligible children, but families must still claim the retirement and investment account…
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MIT to Overhaul Teaching in the Age of AI
Generative AI is eroding the foundations of an MIT education, from the problem set to the study group, and the Institute must rethink nearly every subject it teaches in response, an MIT faculty committee has concluded. The Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and…
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He’s Lying: Trump Revives Debunked Claim That Schools Secretly Send Kids for Gender Surgery
President Donald Trump told a rally crowd in northwest Georgia on Oct. 16 that schools in at least five states are sending children to hospitals for gender surgery without their parents’ approval. The claim is false. It is the same story fact-checkers debunked when he first told…
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The Room Full of Master’s Degrees and the Dyslexic Senior
I ask a room full of adults with master’s degrees a simple question: name the one-word universal theme of a movie you’ve all seen a dozen times. Teachers, specialists, administrators — smart people, plenty of letters after their names. People used to being the sharpest person in…
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NYC Schools Still Separate and Unequal, Report Finds
NEW YORK — Nearly a decade after New York City adopted its first school diversity plan, the gap in outcomes between the city’s most diverse schools and its most segregated ones has grown wider, not narrower, according to a report released this month by the education research…
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IXL Learning Acquires NoRedInk; Writing Platform Will Stay Independent
IXL Learning has acquired NoRedInk, the writing platform middle and high school English teachers use to give students tailored practice from building sentences to writing arguments. The companies announced the deal on October 19; terms were not disclosed. NoRedInk will keep…
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4 Best School Abuse Law Firms: A Parent’s Guide to Finding the Right Support
When a child discloses abuse involving a school, parents may be trying to answer several urgent questions at once. Is their child safe? Who should receive the report? How can they get answers without making the experience more distressing? This guide focuses on sexual abuse and…
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Great Schools Don’t Happen by Accident: How Jonathan Brocco Is Rethinking School Leadership
What makes a great school? Is it high test scores, an innovative curriculum, or a charismatic principal? For Top 50 Educator winner, Jonathan Brocco, principal of LEAD Southeast Middle School in Nashville, Tennessee, the answer begins with something more fundamental: the adults…
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Bend the Form, Not the People
In international schools, the form usually arrives from somewhere else. A planning template from the group office. A marking policy written for a system three time zones away. A framework the new head brought from her last school and knows works, because it did there. Each one…
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What happens to kids after you lower the bar in school?
Did we actually hurt students when we lowered the bar for them? Yes. Absolutely, yes. A friend of mine asked a question on Facebook the other day: “What did you start doing that finally made you feel like an adult?” A lot of the responses to her question were kind of…
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Leaving Values at the Classroom Door: The Hidden Flaw in the Science of Reading
Deficiencies in reading comprehension are a chronic crisis within the K-12 system of public education in the United States. Data from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) demonstrate that 69% of fourth-grade students and 70% of eighth-grade students lack…