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Let me tell you a tale of two schools. As the Georgia Teacher of the Year, I visit countless schools all across Georgia—observing instruction and meeting s

It looks like the feds are having a hard time figuring out what to do with Florida. After California and Utah’s education plans were approved last week, Fl

For decades now, the education community has stated that the majority of students who drop out of high school do so not because high school is too hard, bu

“We’ve not done enough to make students feel valued for their differences,” says Wanda Legrand, the new chief schools support officer for Guilford County S

Across the Chicago region and the Rust Belt, thousands of small to medium-sized manufacturing firms have been soldiering on through decades of outsourcing

When I first met Chris, he was quiet—I could tell he was trying to figure out who I was, and who I could be in his life. The stories I heard about Chris di

Outrage: Fewer Susans The National Motto in the Classroom Act was passed in Tennessee last week. Basically, all schools in the state will now have to promi

[tabby title=”English”] I met my husband in Puerto Rico in 1980. We married young and we moved to Boston to live with his family. After a number of years t

As a nation, we spend close to $600 billion per year on K-12 education, while allocating only $20 billion to childcare and educational supports for childre