Bell to Bell, Phone to Backpack: D.C. Schools Say Enough’s Enough

Starting this fall, D.C. Public Schools is drawing a firm line in the digital sand: middle and high school students ...
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Planting Roots, Building Futures: How Governor Hochul’s Parade Pledge Is Powering Puerto Rican Culture Year-Round

On a sun-drenched Sunday in Manhattan, 5th Avenue pulsed with pride. Flags waved high, salsa beats spilled from every corner, ...
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When Books March In: A Summer Rally With Heart, Hope, and a Library Card

This weekend in Leesburg, something quietly powerful happened inside the gym at the Douglass Community Center, though you’d be forgiven ...
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When the Screen Became the Sitter: What Kids Are Actually Doing With Their 2.5 Hours a Day

Ask any teacher who’s had to wrestle an iPad out of a kindergartener’s grip at 8:05 a.m. kids aren’t just ...
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7 Easy 8-Line Poems to Memorize with Beautiful Illustrations

It started with a giggle in the back of the classroom. One of my littlest students freckles, pigtails, and a ...
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Sorting Hats and Spotlight Dreams: HBO’s New ‘Harry Potter’ Cast Is Here and They’re Practically First Years Themselves

Pull up a beanbag, class. We’ve got a fresh batch of Hogwarts students, and no, it’s not another round of ...
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In a Quiet Queens Classroom, One Teacher Just Gave the City a Lesson in What Really Matters

The hens out back don’t know it yet, but their caretaker just won $25,000. On what started as a normal ...
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Report Cards for Cities: Who’s Raising the Bar for Families in 2024 (and Who’s Just… Passing Notes)?

If cities had behavior charts taped to the wall, a few would be covered in gold stickers by now. Others? ...
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