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As Many More States Enact Education Savings Accounts, Implementation Challenges Abound
ESAs increase choice for families but leave administrators asking: Are pizza ovens, pianos permitted expenses?
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Settle for Better
How overpromising undercut the education reform movement, and what to do about it
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Is Ron DeSantis’s Education Record Anything to Emulate?
Expanding choice while fighting a culture war
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California’s New Math Framework Doesn’t Add Up
It would place Golden State 6th graders years behind the rest of the world—and could eventually skew education in the rest of the U.S., too
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“Year of School Choice” Promise Collides with Reality of Litigation-Caused Delays
Parents, students wait as advocacy groups, unions exhaust court challenges
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Districts and States Give Students a Seat at the Boardroom Table
But authority and voting rights differ from place to place
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Supreme Court Opens a Path to Religious Charter Schools
But the trail ahead holds twists and turns
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Parents Punish Schools That Stayed Physically Closed During the Pandemic
Enrollment drops were larger in schools that were most remote
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Busting the Myths About Year-Round School Calendars
“Balanced” calendars have no academic benefit
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How “Mama Bears” Won a Court Victory—and Helped Elect a Governor—in Virginia
Immigrant parents from Asia fight discrimination in admissions at a top high school
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The leap into a new era of machine intelligence carries risks and challenges, but also plenty of promise
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