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Coronavirus: Schools in Wales could reopen in June, first minister says

Schools in Wales could be allowed to reopen their doors next month in a phased approach, the first minister has said.




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Coronavirus in Scotland: Schools not set to fully re-open “in the foreseeable future”

THE SCOTTISH Government “does not consider it likely” that schools will fully re-open “in the foreseeable future” - while working from home is “likely to persist as part of the new normal”.




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It's Time to Completely Ban the N-Word in Schools

The slur isn't appropriate for school personnel or students of any race to ever use, writes Tyrone C. Howard.




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Is Your School Affirming Institutional Racism During Black History Month?

One particularly tense staff meeting helped educator Robert Parker rethink how his school celebrated Black History Month.




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Are GreatSchools Ratings Making Segregation Worse?

With more than 40 million unique visitors a year, GreatSchools.org is a wildly popular source of information on K-12 schools. Though the site has added more factors and nuance to how it rates schools, researchers argue that it’s exacerbating already existing patterns of segregation.




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A Quick But Important Test for How Your School Perceives Students

And four strategies for fixing the underlying problems most often laid bare, from Great Schools Partnership’s Craig Kesselheim.




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White Parents Say They Value Integrated Schools. Their Actions Speak Differently

A pair of new studies find that, when given a choice, white parents tend to send their children to schools that are predominantly white.




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Data Reveal Deep Inequities in Schools

New data tools allow users to see how public schools fall short when it comes to providing all students the resources they need to meet their highest potential.




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Why Do Schools Hang On to Discriminatory Dress Codes?

School dress codes are clashing with students, parents, and researchers who see the rules and their enforcement as rife with racism and sexism. Some school leaders say the codes are important for safety and teaching kids to comply.




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When Schools Shut Down, We All Lose

Thanks to the coronavirus epidemic, America is facing a school shutdown of historic proportions, deepening learning divides among students and taking away the centers of communities. Can we ever make up the lost learning time?




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Hidden Segregation Within Schools Is Tracked in New Study

When schools reduce racial segregation between schools, racial isolation within the classes inside those schools goes up, according to an analysis of 20 years of North Carolina data.




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Blaming Unions for Bad Schools

Blaming teachers unions for all the ills afflicting public schools does not stand up to scrutiny.




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The Teachers' Unions Have a Charter School Dilemma

With the first charter school strike in the books—and teachers coming out victorious—experts say both unions and charter schools may need to rethink how they’ve long operated.




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Charter Schools

Charter school principals in South Carolina are overwhelmingly veteran school leaders, but more than half are new to the charter sector, according to a study by the Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast.




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Charter Schools

New Orleans charter schools have increased spending on administrators and reduced spending for teachers in the years since charter schools took over nearly every public school after Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005.




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Charter Schools on Corporate Campuses

When public schools accept an offer to move into a new building on corporate land, they open the door to interference on curriculum and faculty hiring.




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Charter Schools

Traditional public schools on average received about 29 percent more funding per student than charter schools in 14 metropolitan areas, finds a new study by the University of Arkansas' education reform department.




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Charter Schools

Students in charter schools that are run by for-profit companies perform markedly worse than their peers in charters managed by nonprofit groups, according to a study.




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Charter Schools

A new study finds lasting, positive effects for students who attend KIPP's prekindergarten program and then go on to enroll in one of the charter school network's elementary programs.




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What Are Charter Schools?

Are charter schools public or private? Do they pick and choose who can enroll? Who oversees them? And are they better at educating students than regular public schools? We answer these questions and more about charter schools in this explainer.




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The Teachers' Unions Have a Charter School Dilemma

With the first charter school strike in the books—and teachers coming out victorious—experts say both unions and charter schools may need to rethink how they’ve long operated.




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Charter Schools

States vary widely on how they govern charter schools, new federal data show.




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Charter Schools

For the first time, school districts are no longer granting the most new charters, says a new report by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.




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How Did Charter Schools Spread?

Almost 30 years after the first charter school legislation passed, guest blogger Sarah Tantillo takes a look at how this movement emerged and spread.




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Timeline: Party Platforms & Charter Schools

A look at the two major political parties' platforms since the first charter school law was passed shows how Democrats' positions on school choice have evolved, including increased calls for accountability.




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Are Charter Schools Facing a Reckoning? Not So Fast

By the single most important metric, charter schools are succeeding, argues Bruno V. Manno.




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No Apologies for 'No Excuses' Charter Schools

High-performing urban schools lent moral authority and measurable results to the charter school sector. Why do advocates give them the cold shoulder? Fordham's Robert Pondiscio answers.




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Charter Schools

New proposals to open "no excuses" charter schools have dropped sharply over the past five years and so, too, have the number of approvals for such schools, according to a new report from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.




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Tests Match Charter, Traditional Schools

There are "no measurable differences" between the performance of charter schools and traditional public schools on national reading and math assessments from 2017, a finding that persists when parents' educational attainment was factored into the results.




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Deep Dive: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren on Charter Schools

Dig into what two leading Democratic presidential candidates have to say in their platforms about charter schools with Education Week's detailed analysis.




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Arkansas panel approves charter school campus




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Suit challenges power of 4 N.C. towns to run charter schools




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Suit challenges power of 4 N.C. towns to run charter schools




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Betsy DeVos Stresses That She Supports 'Great Public Schools' (Video)

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos recently spoke at Council of the Great City Schools annual legislative and policy conference in Washington, D.C. Here are some of her remarks.




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School Leader on Trump's Education Budget (Video)

Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa hashes out the details of the education budget with Prince George's County, Md., Schools CEO Kevin Maxwell.




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As Trump Weighs Fate of Immigrant Students, Schools Ponder Their Roles

While President Donald Trump signed executive orders this week that could have widespread impact on immigrant communities, many in K-12 education await word on his decision on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.




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What Does Trump's Proposed Budget Mean for Schools? (Video)

In this Facebook Live discussion, Education Week reporters Alyson Klein and Andrew Ujifusa discuss President Trump's budget, and what it means for public education.




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Title IX Rule Details How K-12 Schools Must Address Sexual Harassment, Assault

The Education Department outlines when and how schools must respond to reports of sexual assault and harassment under the Trump administration's interpretation of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination.




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How Much Home Teaching Is Too Much? Schools Differ in Demands on Parents

While schools are closed to coronavirus, districts are putting together a patchwork of lessons for students to do at home. But districts’ expectations for what students can accomplish at home vary widely, according to parents.




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National Survey Tracks Impact of Coronavirus on Schools: 10 Key Findings

The EdWeek Research Center is conducting twice-monthly surveys of teachers and district leaders across the country to help the K-12 system navigate these unprecedented times.




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Wealthier Enclaves Breaking Away From School Districts

Over two years, 27 communities have split from their home districts, and the new districts are mostly wealthier, whiter, and more property-rich than the ones left behind.




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What You Can Do in the Face of School Segregation

School segregation may feel intractable, but there are steps school and district leaders can take. Michele Shannon would know.




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In Eight States, Public Schools Are Named for Segregationists

A growing movement to shed Confederate names on public schools has drawn attention in recent years. But public schools named in honor of segregationists haven't drawn the same level of scrutiny.




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Is There a Path to Desegregated Schools?

Racial and economic segregation remains deeply entrenched in American schools. Denisa R. Superville considers the six steps one district is taking to change that.




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Schools' Racial Makeup Can Sway Disability Diagnoses

Three new studies show that a web of factors appear to influence how often black and Hispanic children are identified for special education compared to similar white peers.




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The Splintering of Wealthy Areas From School Districts Is Speeding Up

The school funding group EdBuild finds neighborhood attempts to secede popping up in more school districts, with racial and economic isolation increasing in their wake.




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A Losing Fight to Keep Schools Desegregated

Few districts have done as much as Wake County, N.C., to keep schools racially and socioeconomically diverse, but’s it’s a battle the school board says it has been losing. Can it reverse the trend?




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Schools With Segregationists' Names: Where They Are and Who They're Named for

Education Week found 22 public schools named after politicians who signed the Southern Manifesto opposing school integration after the 1954 Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision.




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Are GreatSchools Ratings Making Segregation Worse?

With more than 40 million unique visitors a year, GreatSchools.org is a wildly popular source of information on K-12 schools. Though the site has added more factors and nuance to how it rates schools, researchers argue that it’s exacerbating already existing patterns of segregation.




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Hidden Segregation Within Schools Is Tracked in New Study

When schools reduce racial segregation between schools, racial isolation within the classes inside those schools goes up, according to an analysis of 20 years of North Carolina data.