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Don't Blame Teachers for Selling Their Lesson Plans. Blame the System That Makes It Necessary

Schools can't even afford to hire enough teachers, so why are we surprised that teachers are turning to a website for resources? asks Kat Tipton.




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Praise Seen as Effective Classroom-Management Tool

When teachers use more praise and fewer reprimands in the classroom, it seems to help students stay on-task and behave better, according to a new study.




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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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Virtual Teaching: Skill of the Future? Or Not So Much?

Leaders in some districts say remote teaching will now be a skill they will build even more in their existing teacher corps. Others are more skeptical.




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Survey Tracker: Monitoring How K-12 Educators Are Responding to Coronavirus

Track how educators and district leaders are responding to challenges related to COVID-19 through recurring surveys from The EdWeek Research Center.




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Loving Our Students From a Distance

During this hard and scary time, when our students need their teachers the most, suddenly they can’t be there in person. Here are some ways teacher Justin Minkel has found to keep that connection virtually.




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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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In Alabama Case, Desegregation History Defeats District's Secession Effort

The appeals court put the brakes on a predominantly white community's racially tinged efforts to secede from a larger school system.





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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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Bernie Sanders' Education Plan: Unions and Desegregation Win, Charters Lose

Bernie Sanders' sweeping vision would establish a $60,000 minimum salary for teachers, while clamping down on charters and boosting efforts to desegregate schools. It's hard to see a lot of it becoming a reality.




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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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Secessions Exacerbate Segregation, Study Finds

Court-ordered school desegregation has been more successful in the South than in any other region of the country, but researchers have noted a new threat: the growing number of communities that are seceding from larger school districts to form their own.




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In Campaign Season, a New Look at Busing

An exchange between two of the top-tier candidates for president highlighted how segregation in education could prove to be a potent issue in the Democratic Party's 2020 primary.




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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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Biden's Segregation Comments Resurrect His Anti-Busing History

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s recent remarks on his willingness to work with segregationists resurrected his long-ago efforts to oppose school busing. Will it hurt his campaign?




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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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It's One of the Most Fraught Words in Education. What Does It Mean?

Loaded or empirical? Incendiary or honest? Unavoidable or misleading? There’s a big disconnect around how we use the word “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.




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Darius L. Swann, Father in Case That Led to Landmark Busing Decision, Dies at 95

The Presbyterian minister's efforts in 1964 to send his son to an integrated school in Charlotte, N.C., led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding busing as a desegregation tool.




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No race balance, but desegregation ends for Georgia district




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Desegregation Order Lifted on Georgia School District in Coronavirus Hotspot

Dougherty County, a largely black school district in an region heavily affected by coronavirus, is no longer subject to desegregation orders first imposed in 1963.




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Special Education Reforms at Center of New Settlement Agreements

The Berkeley, Calif. school district and the state of Ohio have said they will do more to provide services and to ensure students with disabilities are educated in inclusive settings.




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Michael Casserly, Longstanding Urban Schools Advocate, to Pass the Baton

Michael Casserly, who has led the Council of the Great City Schools since 1992, will step down next year and become an adviser to the group.




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Obituary: Lynn Faulds Wood, consumer advocate who succeeded in changing laws

Lynn Faulds Wood, Journalist and TV presenter




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Obituary: Hamish Wilson, pioneering radio drama producer and a gifted character actor

Hamish Wilson, radio producer and actor




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Obituary: Brian Dennehy, imposing actor whose range spanned grizzled cops and Willy Loman

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Obituary: Jill Gascoine, actress who played the first female police detective on British television

Jill Gascoine, actress and novelist




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Obituary: George Forfar, Principal Teacher of English who inspired pupils and colleagues alike

George Forfar: An appreciation




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Obituary: Sir Eric Anderson, who had key role in education of three Prime Ministers

An appreciation by Maxwell Macleod




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An original of the airwaves, with a joke for every occasion

Lou Grant




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Obituary: Saroj Lal, inspirational figure in the long fight for fairness for all

Saroj Lal




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Obituary: Alan Gray: A man whose veins ran with whisky

Alan Gray – An Appreciation




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Lord Armstrong: Archetypal insider who inspired Yes Minister character

Lord Armstrong of Ilminster




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Internet Rallies Around Alleged Maryville Sexual-Assault Victim

A seven-month investigation into an alleged sexual assault by a high school football player in a small Missouri town has set the internet ablaze.




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NLRB Rejects Northwestern Football Players' Attempt to Unionize

The National Labor Relations Board unanimously declined jurisdiction Monday in the case involving Northwestern University football players attempting to unionize.




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Appeals Court Puts Kibosh on Deferred-Compensation Plan for NCAA Athletes

A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a proposed plan that would have paid certain student-athletes as much as $5,000 annually in deferred compensation.




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District's Hair-Length Rule for Male Basketball Players Struck Down by Court

A federal appeals court has struck down an Indiana school district's policy requiring short hair for boys on the basketball team, ruling that the lack of a similar policy for girls'-team basketball players results in illegal sex discrimination.




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Judge Dismisses Concussion Lawsuit Against Illinois High School Association

An Illinois judge has dismissed the nation's first class-action lawsuit against a state high school association over its handling of concussions, ruling that it had made strides in that regard since the filing of the lawsuit.




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Three Ga. Student-Athletes Accused of Prom-Night Rape

Three Ga. high school seniors have been charged with aggravated sexual battery and consumption of alcohol by a minor stemming from an alleged sexual assault during a post-prom party.




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Three Tenn. Teens Charged With Rape and Assault After Allegedly Hazing Teammate

Three high school basketball players in Tennessee were charged with aggravated rape and aggravated assault in late December after allegedly sending one of their 15-year-old teammates to the hospital.




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Coaches, Athletic Director Facing Charges Following Alleged Hazing Incident

Two high school basketball coaches and an assistant principal/athletic director are facing criminal charges stemming from an alleged hazing incident that resulted in the hospitalization of a 15-year-old boy.




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Texas Cheerleaders Take Religious Message Battle to State Supreme Court

A group of Texas high school cheerleaders filed a petition with the state Supreme Court over an ongoing dispute about the display of banners with religious messages at high school football games.




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H.S. Sports Programs in Va., Okla. Facing Allegations of Sexual Assaults

A high school basketball program in Virginia has been suspended indefinitely amid allegations of a sexual assault involving a 16-year-old boy, while junior varsity wrestlers in Oklahoma face similar allegations.




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Fighting for School Desegregation: An Interview With John A. Stokes (Video)

In 1951, John A. Stokes joined other black students in a strike over the condition of their school and subsequently became a figure in Brown v. Board of Ed. Hear his story and the message he wants to share with students today.