EDUCATION
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A New Nation’s Report Card Shows Drops in Science, Math and Reading Scores
Today, the assessments in math and reading are given every two years to a broad sample of students in fourth…
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Teaching Civics in a Divided Age? Intergenerational Dialogue Should Go Both Ways
Research shows intergenerational programs can improve students’ empathy, literacy and civic engagement, but developing those relationships outside of the home…
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More Students Head Back to Class Without One Crucial Thing: Their Phones
Next year she hopes to be at college and is looking forward to the freedom. Transcript: STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: More…
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How Schools are Countering Absenteeism with Food, Rides and Individual Notes
Reilly managed to slash his chronic absenteeism rate in half to 25 percent this past 2024-25 year. That’s still high.…
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How Prepared are ‘COVID Kindergartners’ for School?
“Just being in utero during a highly stressful time had some developmental effects on infants,” Dani Dumitriu, a pediatrician and…
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Friendship Break Ups Can Be Devastating for Tweens. Here’s How Adults Can Help
Friendship is a skill set, according to Denworth, and kids don’t automatically arrive with all the tools they need. A…
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Tutoring Was Supposed to Save American Kids After the Pandemic. The Results? ‘Sobering’
Their preliminary results were “sobering,” according to a June report by the University of Chicago Education Lab and MDRC, a…
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These Programs Help Poor Students with College. Trump Wants to Pull the Funding
But Griffith’s stepsister had introduced her to a federal program called Upward Bound. It places high school students in college…
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Inaccurate, Impossible: Experts Knock New Trump Plan to Collect College Admissions Data
“You’ve got this effort to add these elements without a mechanism with which to vet the new variables, as well…
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Why a Good Pep Talk Doesn’t Always Need to Include Advice
“Make sure you’re listening to what they need and tailoring the pep talk to the specific anxiety they have,” Linden…
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