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2018 Highlights: The Top 5 Stories Grasping Everyone's Attention
It’s July! That means we’re more than halfway through 2018. Guess it’s true what they say about time.While summer break is in full wing, we’re ...
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More Funding for Safer Schools: Exploring the Connection
On Monday, U.S. Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions announced $25 million in additional federal funding for school security initiatives throughout the coun...
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Redrawing the Future: Community Involvement with Proposed Boundary Changes and School Zoning
One of the most difficult — and controversial — planning decisions districts must consider is proposed boundary changes within school districts. ...
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Report: Can SEL Solve School Inequity?
Social-emotional learning (SEL) experts espouse the approach’s ability to improve student performance and behavior.But can SEL also boost equit...
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Revamping Summer School: Beyond More of the Same
Why do we have summer school?For most school systems, summer school is designed to meet unfilled learning needs for students, especially those...
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Parent Engagement Programs Combatting Summer Slide
"Summer is the most unequal time in America. We pour enormous amounts of resources in children learning but much of that investment stops in the su...
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Striking Balance: School Principals Between Following and Leading
The school principalship is the ultimate opportunity to test your mettle in middle management. On one hand, you’re responsible for carrying out the...
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Crisis Levels: Suicide Rates and K-12 Students
Whenever someone takes his or her own life, it’s a tragedy. But when a well-known celebrity--who seems to have it all--commits suicide, the world a...
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Safe Schools: Tech Helps, but Relationships are Vital
Picture this: You’re a parent picking up your elementary-aged child from school early for an appointment.You walk up to the front door of the s...