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Eliminating the Department of Education Won’t Fix Education’s Dysfunctions, But Neither Will Denying They Exist

Proposals to eliminate the Department of Education (ED) have been a Republican talking point since Ronald Reagan first suggested it in the early 1980s. The Trump administration’s executive order to...

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3 Boston High Schools Are Getting It Right. Here’s What We Can Learn.

Today’s high school students are navigating competing priorities, rapidly evolving social and digital landscapes, and myriad post-secondary pathway options. However, today’s high schools are much the...

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Is Trump Gutting Education Research a New Beginning or Just ‘Slashing and Burning’?

The Trump administration’s gutting of the Institute of Education Sciences on Monday temporarily disables an essential source of data on a host of basic information — everything from high school...

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Student Anxiety Crisis: Counselors Can Empower Kids Decide Their Future

Anxiety among students seems to be higher than ever. That’s my experience as the Director of Community & Alumni Partnerships at a charter public school in Massachusetts. In conversations with...

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Charter Schools

So, How Did I Do? A Response to My 2024 Predictions on Education

Last February, I went out on a limb and made ten predictions about what we’d see this year regarding policy and practice. At the time, I said: “Unlike cable news pundits, who rarely hold themselves...

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The School Attendance Problem Isn't Just About Attendance

Alerts from my kids' school district are more common than ever before. There have been many notifications about our kids' tardies and absences. Pre-pandemic, this would have caused a family meeting...

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