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Best of 2022: The Year’s Top Stories About Education & America’s Schools

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Removing Masks From School? One By One, States Unveil Plans to Return to Normal

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A Radical Proposal to Help Students Recover the Learning They Lost Amid COVID

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How Did Students Fare This Year? 21 Big Things We Learned About Schools in 2021

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From School Board Recalls to Ballot Upsets, a New Era for Education Politics?

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‘Chronically’ Absent: Why Are So Many Students Missing Class Amid the Pandemic?

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Spy Tech Followed Students Home During Remote Learning — and Now Won’t Leave

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The Science Behind Keeping Schools Safe During the Delta Variant Surge

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Missing Kids: 1 in 5 Preschool Students Have Disappeared From Public Schools

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12 Big Challenges From Last School Year That Could Now Define the Fall of 2021

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How Teachers Are Using Cicadas and UFOs To Get Kids Excited About School Again

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Congress Gave Billions to Help Students Catch Up — How States Are Actually Using

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From Summer Classes to “Do-Over” School Years, States Strategize to Aid Students

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The 74 Named Finalist For National Education Reporting Awards

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The 10 Best Education Articles from March: 12 Million Students Lack Reliable Internet a Year Into Pandemic, What Herd Immunity Does (and Doesn’t) Mean for Classrooms & More

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The 12 Best Education Articles from February: How Extremists Are Teaching Kids to Hate, the White House Staffs Up With Education Experts, Recruiting an Army of Online Tutors & More

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The 11 Best Education Articles from January: Teaching the Insurrection, How the Pandemic Is Forcing Kids to Juggle Class & Jobs, Schools Face Financial ‘Triple Squeeze’ & More

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Our 14 Most Memorable Interviews About Students, Schools, COVID Learning Loss & Classroom Equity From 2020

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Best Education Articles of 2020: Our 20 Most Popular Stories About Students, Remote Schooling & COVID Learning Loss This Year

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The 9 Best Education Articles from December: Student Surveillance Amid the Pandemic, Cities Demanding Refunds From Schools For Missing Kids, Inside Learning Pods & More

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16 Charts that Changed the Way We Thought About America’s Schools This Year

Kevin Mahnken

Best Essays of 2020: The 15 Most Shared (and Debated) Columns About Students, Schools & Remote Learning We Published This Year

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The 10 Best Education Articles from November: Fears Over Disengaged Students Dropping Out, 48 Election Night Verdicts That May Reshape Education, 455 Times DeVos Has Been Sued & More

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The 11 Best Education Articles from October: The Search for Missing Students, New Data About COVID Learning Loss and How to Reverse It, History Curriculum as an Election Wedge Issue & More

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The 13 Best Education Articles From September: Parents Sue Over Face Masks at School, New Grants Fund Equitable Learning Pods, How Closed Classrooms Will Cost America $14 Trillion & More

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The 11 Best Education Articles From August: As Questions Loom Over Reopenings, Teachers Investigate Ventilation, Parents Pod Up, Everyone’s Wondering Who Will Enforce Masks & More

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The 11 Best Education Articles From July: How States Are Crafting Reopening Policies, Why Parents Are Bracing for a Chaotic Re-entry, When the Preschoolers Disappeared & More

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The 12 Best Education Articles From June: How Classroom Inequality Could Worsen During Coronavirus, Senators Push for More School Aid, Student Activists Join the Protests & More

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The 14 Best Education Articles From May: Blueprints for Reopening Schools, Confronting the Digital Divide, New Plans — and Parental Pleas — for Personalized Learning & More

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The 12 Best Education Articles From April: ‘COVID Slide,’ Rude Awakening for Parents, Special Ed Waivers, Siblings as Teachers & More

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The 15 Best Education Articles From March: Closed Due to Coronavirus, How America’s Schools Are Rethinking Distance Learning, Student Supports, Equity & More

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The 13 Best Education Articles From February: President Trump’s Mysterious State of the Union Scholarship, the Politics of Reading, a John White Exit Interview & More

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The 12 Best Education Articles From January: America’s Most Segregated Classrooms, New Social-Emotional Efforts at (and After) School, the Rise of Esports & More

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A 2019 Education Journalism Jealousy List: 19 Important Articles About Schools We Wish We Had Published Last Year

Beth Hawkins, Carolyn Phenicie, Laura Fay, Kevin Mahnken, Mark Keierleber, Meghan Gallagher & Taylor Swaak

Our 15 Most Memorable Interviews About Education, Students & Segregation of 2019

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QuotED in 2019: The 19 Quotes About Schools and American Education That Made Us Laugh, Cry and Ponder This Year

Andrew Brownstein

Best Education Articles of 2019: Our 19 Most Popular Stories About Students and Schools This Year

Steve Snyder

14 Charts That Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2019

Kevin Mahnken

The 8 Best Education Articles From December: A Racial and Gender Divide in Special Ed, Protesting Democrats Over Charters, an App to Guide Better Classroom Conversations & More

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19 Educators We’re Thankful We Met in 2019: Meet the Inspiring Classroom Heroes We Couldn’t Stop Raving About This Year

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The 12 Best Education Articles From November: Texas Looks to Take Control of Houston Schools, Segregated Pre-K Classrooms, a New Approach in Teaching Slavery & More

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The 13 Best Education Articles From October: A New Model for School Integration, Elizabeth Warren’s Controversial Education Plan, Closing the Word Gap & More

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The 11 Best Education Articles From September: Texas’s Unrelenting Special Education Crisis, Empowering Teachers in Picking Textbooks, When Elite Schools Fail Students & More

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The 14 Best Education Stories We Published This Summer: Assault Victims Being Punished at School, Reinventing HS Transcripts, a Year Inside America’s Top Teacher Mentoring Program & More

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The 7 Best Education Articles From August: The Fall of Puerto Rico’s Schools Chief, How Parents Use Social Media to Navigate the Special Ed World, Combating Summer Melt & More

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The 13 Best Education Articles From July: When School Districts Secede, the Future of School Transcripts, CEO Jackson Talks Chicago Public Schools & More

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The 12 Best Education Articles From June: Our Year Inside America’s Premiere Teacher Mentoring Program, US News Reboots Rankings, the Power of Classroom Relationships & More

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The 9 Best Education Articles From May: NYC’s Gifted Education Crisis, Feds Warn Schools for Mishandling Sex Assault Cases, Brown v. Board’s Unsung Heroes & More

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The 11 Best Education Articles From April: Guiding First-Generation Students Through College, Lessons From Columbine, Doubling Down on Civics Education & More

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The 13 Best Education Articles From March: Google’s Push for Digital Literacy, Texas Students Win With TFA Teachers, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Testing Revelations & More

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Our 12 Most Popular Education Articles From February: Making Homework Count, a 70 Percent Jump in Homeless Students, Cory Booker’s Education Legacy & More

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The Best Education Articles From January: Our 9 Most Popular Pieces About Teachers, Innovative Schools, 2019’s Top Student Storylines & More

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Deep Cuts — Our 7 Most Shared Education Longreads of 2018: Rethinking Integration, Revitalizing Rural Classrooms, the School Security Industry Boom & More

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The Year’s Most Memorable Education Interviews: 11 Conversations That Shaped How We Think About America’s Schools

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Best Education Articles of the Year: Our 18 Most Popular Stories About Students and Schools From 2018

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QuotED in 2018: The 18 Quotes About Schools and American Education That Shocked, Inspired, and Tickled Us This Year

Andrew Brownstein

The Education Essays That Sparked Debate This Year: Our 19 Most Shared Columns and Commentaries From 2018

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Our 2018 Education Journalism Jealousy List: 22 Important Articles About Schools We Wish We Had Published This Year

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How School Policy Changed in 2018: The Year’s 7 Biggest Federal Storylines, From Unforgettable Student Advocacy to an Already Forgotten White House Proposal

Carolyn Phenicie

Inspired Every Day by Our Schools: 9 Amazing Stories About Students and Teachers That Had Us Cheering in 2018

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11 Charts That Changed the Way We Think About Schools in 2018

Kevin Mahnken

Best of November: The 12 Most Popular Articles We Published This Month About Teacher Diversity, the Midterms, the ‘Homework Gap’ & More

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Best of October: The 12 Most Popular Articles We Published This Month About Integration, the Midterms, the Skills Gap & More

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Best of September: The 9 Most Popular Articles, Investigations, and Videos About Schools We Published This Month

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Best of August: The 11 Most Popular Articles About Students, School Safety, and Family Engagement We Published This Month

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Best of July: The 9 Most Popular Articles About Students, Standards, and Early Education We Published This Month

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Best of June: The 7 Most Popular Articles About Students, Integration, and the Supreme Court We Published This Month

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The Best of May: Our 9 Most Popular Articles About Students, Teachers & the State of School Segregation We Published This Month

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The Best of April: Our 7 Most Popular Articles About Students, Families & States’ Education Priorities This Month

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The Best of March: Our 11 Most Popular Articles About Students, Schools & Protests This Month

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Best of February: Our 7 Most Popular Articles About Students & Schools This Month

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From School Integration to the Flu Epidemic Closing Districts, Our 8 Most Popular Education Articles of the Month

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The Top Education Articles of the Year: Our 17 Most Popular (and Shared) School Stories of 2017

Mitchell Trinka

The Best of November — Our 10 Most Popular Articles (and Videos) of the Month

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The Best of October — Our 13 Most Popular Articles (and Videos) of the Month

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The Best of September: Our 7 Most Popular Articles (and Videos) of the Month

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The Best of July: Our 7 Most Popular Articles (and Videos) of the Month

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The Best of June: Our 9 Most Popular Articles (and Videos) of the Month

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The Best of May: Our 9 Most Popular Education Articles This Month

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The Best of April: Our 13 Most Popular Articles (and Videos) of the Month

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