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Five years ago, LeBron James set out to fix some of America's most difficult problems. Some question whether the project is living up to its promises.
I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social value of schooling.
Educators who survive school shootings must return every day to the site of their trauma.
Risk assessments and rigid gun laws are among the tools that can help prevent school massacres, a specialist in youth aggression says.
Experts say schools’ threat detection systems can head off mass casualty events like the one last week in Oxford, Mich.
Teacher read to class without a mask despite Covid symptoms and infected 26 people at California elementary school
Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the toll the pandemic lockdown is taking.
Even in places where schools want to reopen, too many teachers are sick or quarantining for classrooms to operate, and substitutes cannot fill the void.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Friday released a "roadmap" for reopening schools safely in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, including working to curb the spread of the virus and calling on Congress to pass roughly $34 billion in emergency funding to ensure schools have the necessary resources to reopen safely.
Any reopening must avoid earlier mistakes.
Districts have infectious disease protocols. But few have detailed plans to teach online if schools were closed for long periods.
The program drives improvements in attendance, discipline and moving students to the next grade, a Rand Corp. study found, although there was only scant evidence of better test scores.
The data underscores what testing experts have long emphasized: Income, race and privilege can influence a process that is supposed to be a level playing field.
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In this latest installment of the CNN Opinion series -- "America's Future Starts Now" -- educators, academics and think tank experts examine major problems in US public education, chief among them, the partisan divisions over what gets taught in the classroom and how.
Twelve public school teachers joined Times Opinion to discuss the state of education today.
Preparing schools to repel and return gunfire isn’t a mature society’s response.
Teachers in Germany can out-earn an entry-level doctor or web developer. In America, too many have to work second jobs to make ends meet
School shootings are typically preceded by a series of warning signs. Are educators, police and policymakers paying enough attention?
Nannie Helen Burroughs fought tirelessly for Black women of every shade to win the right to an education, fair wages, suffrage and a place of leadership in the country.
Jill Biden has hosted her first solo event by praising the work of teachers and promising them support during the coronavirus pandemic
Hardest hit are Black, Hispanic, low-income students and children with disabilities.
President Trump's press secretary said it was safe to reopen and that "the child will always come first".
The Trump administration can’t just set a timeline without committing to the necessary work to ensure the health and safety of students, teachers and their families.
Students hurl ‘build the wall’ or ‘go back to where you came from’ at children of color
Driven by a tech-industry vision of rural economic revival, Wyoming is requiring all of its K-12 public schools to offer computer science.
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