Educated Reporter

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A growth mindset is “the belief that you can develop your abilities”, according to Carol Dweck....
About a third of the students who started college in 2009 have since dropped out, joining the millions of young adults who never entered college in the first pl...
In Finland you’re not supposed to wonder — let alone ask out loud — if one school is better than another. That’s because all Finnish schools are designe...
As reporters, we often take it for granted when we visit a high-poverty school that it will be surrounded by a similarly struggling neighborhood....
Predicting teacher “shortages,” evidently, is much like forecasting the apocalypse. It’s best to go into the enterprise with a flexible time frame...
There was plenty of levity on Twitter in the wake of Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s declaration that “we need more welders, less philosophe...
Alternative routes to teacher certification have grown rapidly over the last three decades, with more programs popping up all over the country...
In researching his book There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, journalist Alex Kotlowitz met with his two young subj...
For the first time since 1990, math scores dropped for fourth and eighth graders in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the country’s most respec...
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