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A new school year signals new beginnings for all of us in the education world, whether we’re in the classroom ourselves or working behind the scenes. As we gear up for the 2018–2019 school year, we’re looking forward to exciting advances in educational technology (edtech) that will be rolling out...

When was the last time you completed a monumental task? Maybe you ran a marathon, started a new job, or learned to play a musical instrument. There were probably moments when you felt overwhelmed by the work ahead or even considered dropping out entirely. What kept you going? How did...

Homework seems like a fact of life for most people—something that students and teachers alike accept as an essential part of teaching and learning. But is homework necessarily a good thing? While some parents and teachers insist that it is an important way to reinforce what goes on during the...

Fifty-one percent of all public-school students in the United States qualify for free and reduced lunch, according to federal income guidelines. This eye-popping statistic was highlighted in a report by the Atlanta-based Southern Education Foundation, which pulled together data from the National Center for Education Statistics and mapped it out to...

The number of English Learners, or EL students, has been rising steadily in recent years. According to data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, there are now 12 million EL students in classrooms across the United States, with the majority clustered at the elementary school level—an increase of more than...