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I’m a K12 education researcher who works almost exclusively with Texas school districts. I live in Austin, and I was there when the state’s prelimi...

They say numbers don’t lie.Unfortunately, the numbers don’t look all that great for the status quo in America’s public schools.Like it or n...

Today, our schools face the defining challenge of a generation, perhaps their entire existence.Until five years ago, few dared utter the words ...

[caption id="attachment_2326" align="alignright" width="150"] Eric Sheninger[/caption]Technology continues to transform society. It’s also chan...

Education experts love to compare U.S. public schools to those in Finland.The Scandinavian nation consistently tops lists for the highest-perfo...

When Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten toured a public school in rural Ohio’s Van Wert...

[caption id="attachment_6016" align="alignright" width="133"] Bryan Dillon, public information officer, Clover School District[/caption]At the ...

Only 20 percent of parents feel fully engaged in their child’s school, according to a 2015 Gallup Survey.That number doesn’t bode well for scho...

Students are more stressed than ever.As students face more social, technological, and academic pressures, anxiety is taking both a physical and...