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Massachusetts Ranks Second on Quality Counts Annual Report Card

The state, which earned a B-plus, led the nation in K-12 achievement rankings and outperformed other states in several key academic indicators, but fell short on funding equity.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Massachusetts

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Coronavirus Squeezes Supply of Chromebooks, iPads, and Other Digital Learning Devices

School districts are competing against each other for purchases of digital devices as remote learning expands to schools across the country.




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How Layoffs Upend Life for Educators, Students, and Districts

Pandemic-inflicted budget cuts have cost thousands of educators their jobs. Here’s how that’s playing out in five districts around the country.




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Deval Patrick, Obama Education Ally, Announces Presidential Run

A businessman, Patrick served two terms as governor of Massachusetts and has credited education with his own dramatic rise to success.




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Massachusetts Moves Equity to Forefront of Aspiring Superintendent Program

The state's "Influence 100" project includes a leadership development program that will give aspiring district leaders a hands-on opportunity to work through an equity issue in their home districts.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Massachusetts

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Triaging for Trauma During COVID-19

Even with remote learning, there are steps schools can take to reach stressed-out students without pathologizing them.




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Students Lost Time and Learning in the Pandemic. What 'Acceleration' Can Do to Help

A strategy that gives more learning time in small groups of students without taking time away from core instruction.




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Nation's Schools Get a 'C' Once Again, Even as Pandemic Turns Up the Heat

New Jersey leads the states on Quality Counts 2020’s summative rankings based on previous years’ data. But the annual report card shows plenty of work needed all around as the pressure mounts.




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How Will Schools Pay for Compensatory Services for Special Ed. Students?

States’ efforts so far suggest there won’t be enough money to go around for all the learning losses of students with disabilities from COVID-19 school shutdowns.




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Kentucky Schools Chief Urges Teachers to Stop Sending Him 'Hateful' Emails

The statewide email to teachers is just the latest chapter in a rocky relationship between Kentucky officials and teachers.




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Kudzu Bricks, Tiny Homes, and Glow-in-the-Dark Horseshoes: Innovation in Rural Kentucky Schools

In rural Kentucky, teachers and students are awarded innovation grants to solve a challenge facing their community or classroom.




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Kentucky Districts Close Amid Wave of Teacher Absences

At least four Kentucky school districts were forced to close last Thursday as hundreds of teachers called in sick to continue protesting what they believe to be anti-public education proposals in the state legislature.




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How Schools Will Overcome the 'Coronavirus Slide:' Ideas From 5 Superintendents

With many school buildings closed for the rest of the academic year—and more to follow—district leaders turn their attention to making up for what may be deep learning losses.




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DeVos Visits Kentucky School Recovering From Shooting

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on Wednesday visited a Kentucky high school that is recovering from a 2018 shooting to award additional grant money meant to aid its recovery efforts.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Kentucky

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Education Is on the Ballot in These Governors' Races

Voters in three southern states will head to the polls for governors races that have shined a spotlight on educator activism, school funding, and teacher pay.




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Teacher Activism Played Prominent Role in Southern Governors' Races

Governors' races in Kentucky and Mississippi took center stage, testing the political muscle of teacher activists and yielding possible policy implications for everything from public employee pensions to teacher pay.




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Education Issues Resonate in Governors' Races

This year's November elections—a preview to next year's nationwide showdowns—cast their own spotlight on education, a dynamic that played out most prominently in the Kentucky governor's race, where teachers organized to unseat a combative incumbent who'd sparred with them.




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How Coronavirus Is Jeopardizing Teacher Pay Raises

The momentum to raise teacher salaries in several states has ground to a halt amid fears of coronavirus’ massive economic blow.




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Serving Special Needs Students During COVID-19: A Rural Educator's Story

Just because a rural school system has internet doesn’t mean everyone can afford it. That’s why James Barrett delivers paper work packets, along with meals, to his students during the COVID-19 crisis.




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Smart Scheduling Puts Students' Needs First

The principal of a school in Kentucky went back to the drawing board on his school's schedule after hearing author Daniel Pink talk about what children really need.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Kentucky

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Kentucky Teen Once Subject of Viral Video Warns Republicans of 'Outrage Mob'

A Kentucky teen who became the subject of a viral video after a class field trip warned viewers of the Republican National Convention of an "outrage mob" that threatens to silence conservative viewpoints.




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Ky. Police Commissioner Resigns After Student Newspaper Investigation

The student newspaper at duPont Manual High School in Louisville, Ky., first reported on the state's problematic police training material.




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Kentucky Attorney General, Private School Sue Over Order Closing In-Person Classes

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined a private school in a lawsuit against Gov. Andy Beshear, arguing that a school closure order not only violated state law but also the First Amendment.




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Federal Appeals Court Lifts Block on Kentucky School Closure Order

The injunction would have let private religious schools reopen despite the governor's order barring in-person instruction.




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Kentucky Religious School Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Block State Closure Order

Danville Christian Academy is seeking emergency relief from the COVID-19 closure order after losing in federal appeals court.




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Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have Missed




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Elementary Teacher Defeats West Virginia's State Senate President in Primary

After a couple years of clashes with teachers in the state, West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael was ousted in Tuesday's Republican primary election by a teacher.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in West Virginia

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Virginia

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Doubling Recess Time to Put Play Back in the School Day

The Virginia Beach City schools, urged on by parents, decided to make a big change, doubling the amount of recess the district offered, from just 15 minutes a day to 30.




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Feds Extend Meal Waivers for Students After Pressure From Schools, Lawmakers

The extensions will let schools and community groups continue feeding students with fewer restrictions than typical under the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in West Virginia

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Educational Opportunities and Performance in Virginia

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.




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Can a Lottery Diversify America's Top High School?

Controversy over a proposal to admit students by lottery to a highly selective school in Virginia echoes a nationwide debate over how to include more Blacks, Latinos, and low-income students in advanced academic programs.




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Confederate-Named Schools Honor 'Racist Past,' Virginia Governor Says

Public and private schools named for leaders of the Confederacy have come under renewed scrutiny amid the national Black Lives Matter protests.




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Do America's Public Schools Owe Black People Reparations?

School districts must make amends for their racist history, writes Daarel Burnette II. What should that look like?




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Selective Virginia Public High School to Drop Standardized Admissions Test

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology will see a new test-free admissions process by November, district leaders say.




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Virginia educator sues school board over pay disparity




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WVa education group seeks virtual learning until year's end




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Virginia schools delay in-person classes amid COVID-19 spike




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Group calls on Virginia officials to offer school guidance




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Nevada

Student Achievement (NAEP 2003)




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Nevada

State of the States: Education highlights from latest governor's address before the legislature.




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Nevada

Educational technology advocates in Nevada would be happy just to maintain state funding levels for their cause, says Mark S. Knudson, the educational technology specialist for the state education department.




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School Choice Program's Funding Source Unlawful, Nevada High Court Rules

The decision was based on how the voucher-like program is financed, not on the program itself, which is unprecedented in its scope.




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Nevada