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Jean De Lafayette Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.

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Remembering the Legislation That Kept Northern Schools Segregated

The Milliken v. Bradley ruling sanctioned a form of segregation that has allowed suburbs to escape being included in court-ordered desegregation and busing plans with nearby cities.

Jon Hale

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As Schools Try to Become More Culturally Inclusive, Some Teachers Aren’t Buying in

A Delaware high school led trainings on the impact of race on learning to try to better serve their student population, resulting in controversy.

Kelly Field

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How Should Teachers Deal With Distracting Technology in the Classroom?

A new study finds students believe it is a teacher's responsibility to get them to not use technology for purposes unrelated to class.

James McWilliams

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A Major New Study Confirms the Academic Benefits of Music Education

Research on 112,000 Canadian students finds that high schoolers who took more music courses did better in math, science, and English.

Tom Jacobs

People wait to board a bus for Mexico beside the border wall at the U.S.–Mexico border checkpoint in Calexico, California, on October 25th, 2018.

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Thousands of ‘Transborder’ Students Commute to American Colleges From Mexico Every Day

Many transborder students are U.S. citizens who live in Mexico because it's cheaper or because their parents were deported.

Charlotte West

From left to right: OJ Mayo, Reggie Bush, Kayla Pedersen, JJ Hones & Ed O'Bannon.

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A California Bill Would Let College Athletes Sign Endorsement Deals, in Spite of the NCAA

Female athletes stand to gain especially from the prospective passage of the legislation.

James McWilliams

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Computers in the Classroom May Do More Harm Than Good—If They’re Overused

New research finds that computers are most effective as teaching tools when used sparingly, and to teach kids at certain ages specific subjects.

Tom Jacobs

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Colleges Are Attracting More Latinx Students, but Aren’t Doing Enough to Help Them Succeed

Like many U.S. colleges, Indiana University–Northwest is seeing a sharp rise in Latinx students—but support for them is lagging.

Aaron Cantú

Students work on a project identifying countries in North, Central, and South America during a history class.

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Why California’s School Accountability Laws No Longer Work

Changes to the state's evaluation system for schools has thrown the state's school accountability system into flux.

Will Huntsberry

Woman girl taking standardized test school classroom

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Women Perform Better on Tests When Rooms Are Warmer

For female students, higher room temperatures mean higher scores.

Tom Jacobs