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Across the country, student journalists are covering protests their own classmates and reaction by their own administrations
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Kindergarten math is often too basic. Here’s why that’s a problem
Teaching in kindergarten is often too focused on early skills like counting, instead of building a bridge to later math ...
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Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back
Florida and Texas have the most extreme anti-DEI laws in the country, but on college campuses,  there is mounting resistance ...
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Maryland becomes the third state to completely ban legacy preference in admissions
Most colleges in Maryland already ban legacy preferences in admissions, but the new bill would prohibit the use of such ...
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Q&A: Barnard students share experiences of suspension and eviction during Columbia protests
Barnard College, an affiliate of Columbia University, suspended at least 53 students and evicted them from their dorms, cut ...
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OPINION: I teach Renaissance literature at Columbia, but this week’s lessons are about political protests and administrative decisions
Our president’s decision to call in police has turned campus into a center of cultural and political forces far beyond our ...
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Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens to the students?
The pace of long-predicted college closings has sped up dramatically this spring, threatening to throw more and more students ...
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Holly Korbey
ASTON, Pa.— In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. This story also appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer On a recent morning, the ...
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States spending more overall on pre-K, but there are still many haves and have nots
That said, states, on average, have not raised the amount they spend per child in pre-K by much over the years: In 2002, that figure was $6,945. And 16 states spent less on pre-K programs in 2023 than ...
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PROOF POINTS: Many high school math teachers cobble together their own instructional materials from the internet and elsewhere, a survey finds
But a recent national survey of more than 1,000 math teachers reveals that many are rejecting the materials they should be ...
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Schools were just supposed to block porn. Instead they sabotaged homework and censored suicide prevention sites
This article was originally published by The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve ...
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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics
Jo Boaler is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education with a devoted following of teachers who cheer her call ...