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Bridging Achievement Gaps: Equitable Funding and Housing in Schools
After sharp spending cuts in the wake of the Great Recession, national public school funding increased for the second year in a row during the 2014...
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Technology's Impact on Students: Experts Warn of Potential Harm
When you follow the daily Twitter conversation around education as regularly as we do, several common themes emerge.Perhaps no issue gets debat...
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King's Insights: The Vital Role of Education in His Own Words
This weekend, we once again remember the lasting legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.While our country has certainly made tremendous progress ...
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Should Public Schools Embrace Charter-Like Operations?
Charter school supporters often cite the flexibility granted to charters as a differentiator over “traditional” public schools.Conceived as lab...
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Student Involvement: Enhancing Professional Development
Every year, schools across the country undertake a familiar, but difficult journey of discovery.Professional-development training. The perennia...
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Empowering Students: How School Leaders Address #MeToo
American culture is in the midst of a monumental shift.After a flurry of revelations about sexual misconduct by some of the country’s most powe...
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NSBA's Tom Gentzel: K-12 schools are not an island
This column was originally published in the December 2017 edition of American School Board Journal. Read the original story here.[caption id="a...
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Winter Weather Reminders: Schools' Role in Disaster Recovery
Jack Frost reared his ugly head this week as winter storm Grayson froze the deep south and dumped snow on the Northeast.By the end of Thursday,...
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Measuring Student Engagement: How Does Your District Compare?
Ask any educator—they’ll tell you that student engagement is vital to student success in schools.But too many schools struggle to accurately qu...