Peer Power: CMU Students Bring Free Tutoring to High Schoolers Online

A student learning online wearing headphones.
Long before the first bell rings, teachers know which students will need a little extra. Some stay late, some come ...
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Empty Desks, Frayed Nerves: Schools Are Hiring, But Who’s Left to Teach?

Classroom, teacher teaching to the students.
It’s May, and across America’s school districts, the mood is more than just end-of-year exhaustion, it’s full-on crisis fatigue. The ...
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New York Tries (Again) to Bring Climate Change into the Classroom: Will the Sixth Time Be the Charm?

Aerial view of New York city.
If you’re keeping count, that’s six. As in, New York lawmakers have now introduced a sixth attempt to get climate ...
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California Bets Big on Reading Screeners: But Will It Stick This Time?

A boy reading in school's library.
If you’ve ever watched a second grader struggle to sound out a simple sentence, fighting back tears, then you already ...
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27 Fun facts about Chile (with interactive quiz and Chilean Spanish & slang)

Moai statues, mountains, magellanic penguins.
I once found myself on a dusty path in the Atacama Desert, watching a lone flamingo strut through a salt ...
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Apples, Applause, and the Art of Teaching: Killeen ISD Honors 220 Educators

Killeen ISD teachers receiving award.
In a school district where the morning bell rings for tens of thousands of students, it’s easy for heroic teaching ...
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Big Ideas, Small Checks, and the Joy of Teaching: Killeen ISD Educators Win Spring Innovation Grants

Teachers celebrating grant for the Killeen ISD curriculum.
If you’ve ever taught long enough to run a DonorsChoose campaign on your lunch break or dug through your own ...
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From Phonics to Policy: McMahon’s Grant Priorities Signal a Familiar Federal Tune

Linda McMahon - United States Secretary of Education
If you’ve been in public education long enough to remember grant binders thick with acronyms and hope, then you know ...
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Hearts, Chalk, and Gold Stars: Alto ISD Celebrates Four Standout Teachers

Four Alto ISD teachers recognized for their excellent work.
Every now and then, in the hum of morning announcements and the scratch of pencils on paper, someone takes the ...
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Stormy Lessons: Tennessee Schools Let Out Early as Severe Weather Looms

Storm, thunder striking from the sky.
Well, it wasn’t reading, writing, or arithmetic that led the lesson plan in Middle Tennessee this Tuesday, it was radar. ...
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