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We’ve got answers to that and other questions from a new tranche of state testing data

Teachers who survived school shootings are banding together to form a crisis intervention team

Many have claimed that there’s been a generational pivot away from college, but the data doesn’t back that up.

Researchers drew on data from a large Florida school district and found impacts on both foreign-born and U.S. citizen students who speak Spanish.

Adeel Khan says artificial intelligence can save teachers time by helping plan lessons and put together IEPs. But he acknowledges there’s a risk that it will just be used as a short cut.

Florida school districts are eyeing school closures and selling spots in classes to homeschool students as enrollment declines.

Students will keep using AI to cheat, more teachers will use it as a teaching assistant, but it won’t be a supertutor.

Margaret Spellings, who led the agency under George W. Bush, says scrapping it would be ‘inefficient.’

There have been some Southern success stories, though we’re still figuring out what drove them.

This new section at Chalkbeat, led by Matt Barnum, will focus on explaining, examining, and elevating ideas about the policy, politics, and practice of American education.

If schools were legally required to provide an adequate education for all kids, they might radically overhaul and improve their instruction, 2 researchers say.

The Stanford University research looked at how often disruptions took away from tutoring time, and how tutors did or didn’t build relationships with students.

The school’s Christian affiliation was omitted or downplayed in documents submitted to the state, a BOCES, and a Pueblo area school district.

Researchers found modest test score increases in a Florida school district after the state banned phones in schools. Suspensions also rose.

National test results from the most recent school year show gaps based on race and household income narrowing slightly in math. Reading is a different story.

Only a few top officials remain in the office that oversees the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the employees union said.

Nearly everyone below the director level in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education is set to lose their job, an employee union said.

Some advocates worry the Labor Department will put a greater emphasis on earning short-term credentials that may not pay off in the workforce.

Trump’s new $100,000 fee on H1B visas would close a door for rural schools that have turned to foreign teachers for special education, high school math, and more.

Ryan Walters said his goal in his new job is to ‘destroy the teachers unions.’