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No test scores, no transparency
Harvard’s move to test-optional admissions through 2026– applicants won’t have to submit SAT or ACT scores — will be great for admissions officials, writes Megan McArdle in a Washington Post...
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Cabbie’s daughter: Elite school is ‘my way out’
Tausifa Haque, a 17-year-old daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants, joins “a river of teenagers who pour into Brooklyn Technical High School — Bengali and Tibetan, Egyptian and Chinese, Sinhalese and...
View ArticleLandslide! SF recalls woke school board members
A parent-led recall has ousted three San Francisco school board members who kept schools closed — middle and high schoolers were out for 18 months — while the board focused on repainting a historic...
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Unjust America: The picture book
Preet Bharara, a former federal prosecutor, has written a new children’s book, Justice Is … , which claims to be a “guide for young truth seekers.” It extols historical figures who “stood for justice,”...
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Dad seeks teacher data, becomes ‘Enemy # 1’
Luke Rosiak’s new book, Race to the Bottom, blames public schools’ problems on special interests that put ideology before education. Rosiak, who broke the story of how Loudoun County, Va. school...
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Middle school to manufacturing
Destini Williams and Amrose Bhujel test vehicles they’ve made from trash at Woodward Park Middle School in Columbus, Ohio. Photo: Maddie McGarvey/Education Week Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning...
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Ukrainian children are learning, far from home
Ukrainian refugee children play in a school gym in Poland. Photo: Joe English/UNICEF More than half of Ukraine’s children have fled their homes, reports Anya Kamenetz on NPR. At least two million are...
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Immigrants want working English
Darcie Sebesta teaches basic English at Community College of Denver. Photo: Jason Gonzales/Chalkbeat At Community College of Denver, practical, job-oriented English classes grew from 50 to 400 students...
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Middle school to manufacturing
Destini Williams and Amrose Bhujel test vehicles they’ve made from trash at Woodward Park Middle School in Columbus, Ohio. Photo: Maddie McGarvey/Education Week Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning...
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Trying is not the same as achieving
Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but in colleges, writes Adam Ellwanger on the Martin Center blog. What’s known...
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The Ukrainians are coming
California schools have begun to welcome Ukrainian refugee children, reports Carolyn Jones on EdSource. So far, it’s only a few students, but there are large Ukrainian communities in Sacramento, Los...
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‘Russian’ school gets a new name
A “Support Ukraine” rally in Indianapolis on April 9. Children still come for after-school classes in math, science and chess, but the “Russian School of Indiana” has changed its name in response to...
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‘Refugee High’ copes with Afghans
Omar, who had little schooling in rural Afghanistan, is learning English at Chicago’s Sullivan High School. Photo: Taylor Glascock/WBEZ My mother’s old high school in Chicago (class of ’44), Sullivan...
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Ukrainians, but not Afghans, get fast track to U.S.
Ukrainian refugees are getting a warmer welcome than Afghans, according to a group of refugee advocates and Democratic senators, writes Ilya Somin in Reason. Ukrainian refugees crossing into Poland....
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Summer jobs aren’t for teens any more
Immigrant adults are taking summer jobs once done by U.S. teenagers, writes Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner. “Immigrants — legal and illegal — are crowding out U.S.-born teenagers in the labor...
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When tiger kids become parents
Credit: JooHee Yoon/New York Times The son of tiger parents, lawyer Ryan Park wants to raise his daughters to be “happy, confident, and kind,” he writes in the New York Times. They don’t have to be...
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