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Jill Vialet is founder and CEO of Playworks, a nonprofit that partners with schools to use recess and play to improve children’s social-emotional learning and experience in school. A recent RAND report found that Playworks’ Coach Service was one of only a handful of social-emotional learning interventions that meet ESSA’s requirements for the highest standard ...

In the Atlantic, Katherine Reynolds Lewis takes a step back from the current debate over school discipline to profile a school that is trying something new. She recounts how the “zero tolerance” approach to school discipline of the 1990s was followed by the Obama administration’s official guidance to schools on minimizing suspensions, issued in 2014, and notes...

The use of technology in schools continues to advance, and significant opposition to it has receded. According to our 2017 Poll, 69 percent of respondents support the idea of schools in their community providing students with laptop computers for classroom use. Approval is higher among parents, at 77 percent, and even higher among teachers, at 83 percent. Respondents show less...

As more and more school systems across the country explore competency-based education (CBE), we need to be attentive to the processes that will actually allow such innovations to thrive. Current time- and age-based accountability measures have a stronghold on schools, even those trying to break away from the factory model of education. As a result, we would predict that time-b...

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In Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan has signed a bill that will make community college free for qualifying families. The state will provide scholarships of up to $5,000 to students from families earning less than $125,000 a year, the AP reports. Maryland joins California, Kentucky, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Tennessee in offering statewide tuition-free programs, Ashley Smith ...

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Fundamental information that is the basis for evaluating the performance of our K-12 education system is sending different signals. Measures of student achievement point to low levels and meager improvement. Measures of teaching indicate nearly every teacher is effective. But teachers are the most important input to learning—something’s amiss. What is amiss is that the informa...