Claudio Sanchez
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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So your kid is off to college. You've spent months navigating the financial aid process and meticulously budgeted for all sorts of out-of-pocket expenses — or so you thought.
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Expulsions and suspensions were much higher for African-American students, researchers found.
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Pre-dawn school start times are unhealthy and must change, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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George Washington University is the latest and one of the largest private universities to drop its admissions testing requirement.
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The Senate may have voted to replace NCLB, but one of the old law's chief architects argues that much of it should stay just the way it is.
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We know very little about what goes into standardized tests, who really designs them and how they're scored. Take a peek into the nation's largest test-scoring facility.
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Jonathan Kozol looks back on events he wrote about 50 years ago, in Death at an Early Age, that reveal how an elementary school treated black children in 1960s Boston.
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Since the mid-1990s, Texas has treated truancy as a criminal offense. Now, state lawmakers say that was a mistake.
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Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, is launching a $30 million project that he says will shake teacher education to its core.
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From a young age, Caroline Solomon wanted a career in science. She also wanted to help other deaf and hard-of-hearing people defy the odds. Now, she's considered a role model at Gallaudet University.