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Forum: The Histories of the U.S. Department of Education
History of Education Quarterly has published an excellent forum on the history of the U.S. Department of Education. On
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Immigrant Teachers in Rural Schools, Visas Now Threatened
In the "perfect storm" of funding inequities, fewer people choosing to become teachers, and the political attacks schools,
Teacher Training for Rural Schools Deemed "DEI" and Defunded
It's always been difficult to recruit teachers to rural schools. Young teachers commonly choose the social and cultural
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The Department of Education and Low-Income Children in K-12 Schools.
With so much news about the Department of Education (and rumors of yet more recent cuts), I wanted to do
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Auctioning Off Equity
The first time I heard about PTA auctions was when one of our teacher education students was hired at a
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More on Rural School Closures
I wrote a few days ago about proposals to preserve rural schools as hubs of their communities. Just this morning,
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Rural School Preserves: A Proposal
One in five young people in the U.S. attends a rural school. Many are poor and working-class students. With
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The Power to Deny Poor Families Internet Access
For a decade, libraries have been lending portable wifi hotspots to residents so that students, families, job seekers, elderly people
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Grading States on School Funding
I linked to the Education Law Center's state-by-state analysis of school funding in my earlier post about college
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Buying SAT/ACT Points
When I directed the masters program in my department, administrators higher up the food chain told us that we had
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Making the Education of Poor Kids Even More Precarious
By law, most federal funds arrive in school districts on July 1. This year, on June 30, the administration instead
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"Horrific" Cuts to Rural Schools [Refusing Despair]
The Superintendent of Public Instruction in my state of Washington has released his analysis of the "horrific" impact