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The latest plans that could shake up education funding

The department’s proposed rule on federal grants, known as the Education Department General Administrative Regulations, closes for public comment this Wednesday. The post The latest plans that could shake up education...

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School districts, slowly, build guidance around AI learning in classrooms

Boston Public Schools allows students to use artificial intelligence to translate text. Nearby, Lexington school officials say AI can help students write persuasively. A third district, Medfield, allows students to...

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Landlines, Magazines, Puzzles: NYC Suburb Brings Back Screen-Free Childhoods

When Croton-on-Hudson’s youngest students returned to school earlier this month, a familiar — and increasingly controversial — classroom tool was missing from their desks: iPads. A new districtwide policy prohibits the...

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Chicago school board candidate defends disciplining his kids, says school staff ‘should never use corporal punishment’

Attorney Victor Henderson spoke at a Chicago school board president candidate forum at McCutcheon Elementary earlier this month.

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Opinion: My One-Student School: Why Educators Need Serious Hobbies

In 2016, I was running six schools I had founded in six years. And I was completely spent. I started getting alarming signals from the people in my life. Friends would pull me aside and ask if I was ok. My clothes...

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From 3,000 students to about 90: Inside the decades-long failure to fix or close NYC’s smallest high school

The Murry Bergtraum High School Campus in lower Manhattan, once home to a single school with roughly 3,000 students, now houses four schools. Its original school has shrunk to around 90 students.