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During and after the 2016 presidential campaign, questions arose about whether shortcomings in civics instruction had exacerbated polarization in the electorate...
Here are five key lessons courtesy of fellow education reporters as well as journalists working on other beats....
Education reporters can expect to hear a lot more about school choice over the next four to eight years. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is a longtime c...
Tired of interviewing the same people? Keith Woods, the vice president of newsroom training and diversity at NPR, has an antidote for you: Reach out beyond the ...
How do reporters know good teaching when they see it? How do they tactfully write about bad teaching? And how do they tease out what came before the moment they...
Do students from wealthy or politically connected families get preference in the admissions process?...
Education reporters can expect to hear a lot more about school choice over the next four to eight years. ...
Nationally, politicians and others frequently tout Hartford, Connecticut, and its magnet schools as a model of school integration...
The classroom descriptions draw from Deeper Learning: The Planning Guide by Monica Martinez and Dennis McGrath and from the work underway by members of the Deep...
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