27 Fun facts about Tennessee (interactive quiz)

The first time I crossed into Tennessee with a van full of students on a spring trip, the radio fuzzed ...
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When a Student’s Seat Stays Empty: Pennsylvania Lawmakers Tackle a Growing Absence Crisis

If you’ve taught long enough, you know the names that never make it to roll call. They’re not skipping school ...
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Peer Power: CMU Students Bring Free Tutoring to High Schoolers Online

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?

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?

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?

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)

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

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

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

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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