Saving Schools in America’s Fastest-Shrinking City – The 74
Arriving May 06, 2024 ‘We Want Our Kids Back’: To Entice Families, Pine Bluff Looks to its Schools. The nation’s fastest-shrinking city, and among its least safe, hopes an education turnaround will help spark a revival in central Arkansas.
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Trump Admin Guts School Safety Committee Created to Combat Mass Shootings Senior Trump official tells The 74 Dept. of Homeland Security will "no longer tolerate" any committees that "undermine its national security mission."
The 2025-26 FAFSA Is Open. Here’s What You Need to Know
Dec 9, 2024 · Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter. The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) officially released the 2025–26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on Nov. 21, 10 days before its Dec. 1 goal and three days after opening the form to all students and families as part of the Department’s Expanded Beta 4 testing.
‘How Far Will RFK Go?’ 2 Experts Talk Kennedy’s Potential Impact …
Dec 3, 2024 · Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter. Amid a flurry of controversial cabinet appointments and nominations, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., still stands out for his unconventional medical and scientific beliefs and a history of spreading conspiracy theories ...
Map: In Decade Since Sandy Hook, Nearly 500 Killed in Mass
Dec 6, 2022 · After the 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, parents of murdered children set out to implement tougher federal gun laws.Nearly a decade later, their advocacy finally found success.
Why Teachers Don’t Use the High-Quality Instructional Materials …
Nov 12, 2024 · More recently, this approach has been adopted for the use of HQIM in the classroom (also called Tier 1 instruction). The idea, reasonable on its face, is that weaker students should be given extra time, usually through pulling them out of arts or even social studies courses, to master the materials.
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America's Education News Source. Articles by Larissa Phillips. Larissa Phillips is the director and creator of The Volunteer Literacy Project, a nonprofit that teaches reading to adults using a structured phonics approach.
Lawsuit Accuses Famous Literacy Specialists of Deceptive Marketing
Dec 6, 2024 · Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter. A lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court accuses famous literacy specialists Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell and their publisher Heinemann of pushing reading curriculums they knew didn’t work.
2024 EDlection Recap: Key Races & Issues That Could Reshape …
Nov 4, 2024 · Instead, most clues about Trump’s education policy have come from The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, an ambitious Republican agenda to transform the federal bureaucracy under a second Trump presidency.While Trump has denied any involvement in the creation of Project 2025, experts say the plan reflects many of the ideologies held by the former president and, if enacted, would have ...
Public Funds, Private Schools: A New Analysis of the Early Returns …
Oct 23, 2024 · Policy Director Liz Cohen and analyst Bella DiMarco studied the evolution of established or emerging universal programs during the 2023-24 school year across eight states: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, and West Virginia.