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Agrest in her home studio — a place that houses her personal art collection and relics from her travels.
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Teaching Students To Hear The Music In The Built World

Apr 21, 2015
Cooper Union architecture professor Diana Agrest has influenced generations of accomplished architects. Agrest was one of the first women to teach in the largely male-dominated field.
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Californians Together Pathway Award for Middle School.
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On The High School Diploma: A 'Bilingual' Stamp Of Approval?

Apr 21, 2015
Indiana may soon allow high school students to graduate with a 'seal of biliteracy.' Eight other states already do.
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A school bus passes a sign encouraging parents to have their children opt out of state tests in Rotterdam, N.Y.
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Anti-Test 'Opt Out' Movement Makes A Wave In New York State

Apr 20, 2015
Activists say that about 175,000 students refused to take federally mandated tests last week.
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Adams says he's determined to get an education. He's found a comfort zone at the Youth Empowerment Project.
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Falling Through The Cracks: Young Lives Adrift In New Orleans

Apr 18, 2015
Among U.S. cities, New Orleans has the third-highest rate of young people who are neither in school nor working. Craig Adams Jr. is trying not to be one of them.
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With a baby on the way, Derricka Tucker, 18, is determined to graduate this spring.
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In New Orleans, A Second-Chance School Tries Again

Apr 17, 2015
Crescent Leadership Academy has a checkered reputation, but a new principal is trying to do right by some of the toughest — and most troubled — kids in the city.
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LA Schools To Apple: You Owe Us

Apr 16, 2015
The Los Angeles Unified School District wants Apple to pay up for poorly performing software on its iPads.
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Math teacher Maggie Bruski wants her students to be "able to touch the math, not just try to do the math on paper."
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Real-World Math: A Bit Of Trig And Hay For The Horses

Apr 15, 2015
The Common Core math standards say students need more than a textbook understanding of concepts like the Pythagorean theorem. So two Colorado teachers teamed up for a lesson in real-world math.
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Peeling lead paint in a New York City apartment. Many buildings built before 1960 still have high amounts of lead.
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If Walls Could Talk: What Lead Is Doing To Our Students

Apr 14, 2015
A new study says Massachusetts' aggressive effort to lower lead exposure has also improved student performance.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the ESEA in 1965 with Kate Deadrich Loney, his first schoolteacher.
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Senators Try To Revise No Child Left Behind — A Few Years Behind

Apr 13, 2015
Tuesday, senators begin working out the details of a bipartisan update to the No Child Left Behind education law. The proposed revision would give states more control over school accountability.
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Student Raul Ramos goes through his online homework during a session of a massive open online class, or MOOC, in Madrid, Spain.
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New Research Shows Free Online Courses Didn't Grow As Expected

Apr 11, 2015
A new study of free, online college courses says that growth fell short of early expectations, as well as a pattern among users: mostly college-educated, including a surprising number of teachers.
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Egg babies created by Aaron Warren's ninth-grade students at Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School in Los Angeles.
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A Classic Prep For Parenthood, But Is The Egg All It's Cracked Up To Be?

Apr 09, 2015
It's a rite of passage for teens in sex ed: simulating parenthood by caring for a fragile, or fussy, surrogate — sometimes even an egg. But do egg babies really teach kids the hardships of parenting?
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Universities can have a hard time resisting the lure of luxury, which keeps room and board prices rising.
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Think Tuition Is Rising Fast? Try Room And Board

Apr 08, 2015
Universities are raising food and housing prices faster than inflation.
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Mexican-American Toddlers: Understanding The Achievement Gap

Apr 07, 2015
A new study finds Mexican-American toddlers are lagging behind their white counterparts.
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Carver Prep is housed in a small compound of temporary trailers with covered walkways in between. A new school building is under construction next door.
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A New Orleans High School Adapts To Unaccompanied Minors

Apr 07, 2015
About 68,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America have entered the U.S. in the past year. We check back in with a school in New Orleans that took in 50 of them.
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Javanti Coleman hopes to find a new school for her daughter. "The school that she goes to now, it doesn't meet my needs at all," Coleman says.
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In New Orleans, The Scramble For The Right Fit

Apr 06, 2015
At the annual Schools Expo in February, families tried to match their needs with the best schools under the city's choice system. This month, they'll find out where they've been assigned.
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Without Janitors, Students Are In Charge Of Keeping School Shipshape

Apr 04, 2015
In Japan, many schools don't employ janitors. Instead, they ask the students to pitch in with the daily upkeep. Some U.S. schools are doing the same.
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Filmmaker Erin Davis spent three weeks filming at The Land adventure playground in North Wales in 2013.
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The Value Of Wild, Risky Play: Fire, Mud, Hammers And Nails

Apr 03, 2015
A new short documentary on an adventure playground in Wales explores "the nature of play, risk and hazard."
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University set out to study how infants use what they already know to motivate future learning.
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Why Babies Love (And Learn From) Magic Tricks

Apr 02, 2015
A new study in the journal Science explores the power of surprise to motivate infant learning.
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Former Deerwood Academy assistant principal Tabeeka Jordan is led to a holding cell. She is one of 11 Atlanta educators found guilty of racketeering.
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The Atlanta Cheating Verdict: Some Context

Apr 01, 2015
Eleven school employees are convicted of racketeering in a case involving high-stakes standardized testing. Here's our take on the trial.
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The Education Department, headed by Secretary Arne Duncan, says it's keeping a close eye on 556 colleges and universities that do a poor job of complying with federal regulations and handling federal financial aid.
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The Opposite Of The Dean's List

Apr 01, 2015
The Education Department says it's keeping a close eye on 556 colleges and universities that do a poor job of complying with federal regulations and handling federal financial aid.
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Makenzie Vasquez (from left), Pamala Hunt, Latonya Suggs, Ann Bowers, Nathan Hornes, Ashlee Schmidt, Natasha Hornes, Tasha Courtright, Michael Adorno and Sarah Dieffenbacher are refusing to pay back loans they took out to attend Corinthian Colleges.
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Activists Stop Paying Their Student Loans

Mar 31, 2015
Students who say their for-profit college degrees are worthless took their "debt strike" to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Tuesday.
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Live From Small Town America: Teachers Who Blog To Stay In Touch

Mar 31, 2015
Teachers in remote areas say it's a great way to plug into conversations with other educators.
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Richard Ingersoll is a University of Pennsylvania professor who studies teacher turnover and retention. He says the constant teacher churn costs school districts more than $2.2 billion annually.
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Revolving Door Of Teachers Costs Schools Billions Every Year

Mar 30, 2015
The constant churn affects schools' ability to provide all students with skilled teachers. But professor Richard Ingersoll says schools can fix this without spending a dime.
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Daisy, rolled up and supported by her classmates.
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A Teacher's Moment: Finding 'The Essence Of Poetry'

Mar 29, 2015
Jess Burnquist teaches creative writing at an Arizona high school. She talks about how one lesson helped a class become a team.
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Zielke teaches eighth-graders to play the 12-bar blues in general music class.
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Saying Goodbye: Reflections Of A Music Teacher

Mar 28, 2015
An Ohio music teacher looks back at the school that defined her more than 30 years of teaching.

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