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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
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Paying to Play Public School Sports
When I first moved to Seattle, I overheard teachers in a graduate class I was teaching talking about how their
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TRIO on the Chopping Block
Proposed federal budgets would cut TRIO, the program that since the 60s has provided supports to low-income first-generation college students
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Losing your Home, Losing Your School: New Research.
The Eviction Lab at Princeton has issued a new report, Losing your Home, Losing Your School: How Evictions Affect Kids&
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Threats to the Health of Low-Income Children
4.9 million children – nearly one in ten – attends a school within a mile of a chemical facility. Children attending