What Really Happened At That Robotics Competition You've Heard So Much About
This week, the First Global Challenge, a highly anticipated robotics competition for 15- to 18-year-olds from 157 countries, ended the way it began — with controversy. On Wednesday, members of the team...
View ArticleMeet The 5 New Inductees Of The National Teachers Hall Of Fame
Emporia, Kansas is home to rolling prairies, wheat fields, and the world's biggest frisbee golf tournament. But the reason we went there: the National Teacher Hall of Fame, which gives the place it's...
View ArticleThere's a National Teachers Hall of Fame? Who Knew?
If you've ever driven south into Kansas on Interstate 35, past rolling prairies and wheat fields, eventually you'll run into the town of Emporia, population 25,000 and home to the National Teachers...
View ArticleFive Years In, What's Next For DACA?
Demonstrators came from across the country to gather at the White House in support of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as toddlers and children. Five years ago today, President...
View ArticlePaul Miller Loved Teaching Math So Much That He Did It For Nearly 80 Years
Most teachers these days last no more than five to 10 years in the classroom, but Paul Miller taught math for nearly 80. At one point, he was considered the "oldest active accredited teacher" in the...
View Article'You See In Their Eyes The Fear': DACA Students Face An Uncertain Future
Erik Erazo says the end of the DACA program threatens all the things that the young people he works with have achieved. "You see in their eyes the fear, that's the heartbreaker," says Erazo, a high...
View ArticleHere's What 2 Big College Systems Think Of The End Of DACA
This week, President Trump finally made good on his campaign promise to end DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This 2012 administrative program implemented by President Obama, has allowed...
View ArticleTrump, And Most Black College Presidents, Absent From Annual Meeting
Every U.S. president since Jimmy Carter has pledged commitment to historically black colleges, or HBCUs. And just about every year, HBCU leaders gather in Washington D.C., to lobby Congress and the...
View ArticleGetting The Most Out Of Pre-K, 'The Most Important' Year In School
Suzanne Bouffard's new book, The Most Important Year, may be just what parents of preschoolers have been waiting for: a guide to what a quality pre-K program should look like. Bouffard spent a lot of...
View ArticleInterviews At The Airport: Teachers From Puerto Rico Find New Schools In Orlando
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View Article'A New Reality': Students And Teachers From Puerto Rico Start Over In Florida
It's 5:30 a.m. and dark in the fifth-floor hotel room, just a few minutes' drive from the Orlando airport. There are still 20 minutes before the entire family needs to be downstairs to enjoy the free...
View ArticleThis Nun Has Been Fighting For Migrant Kids For 45 Years
In 1965, Congress took a major step in addressing the plight of schoolchildren growing up in some of the nation's most impoverished communities: It passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. At...
View ArticleDoes Preschool Pay Off? Tulsa Says Yes
In 2001, not long after Oklahoma had adopted one of the nation's first universal pre-K programs, researchers from Georgetown University began tracking kids who came out of the program in Tulsa,...
View ArticleFrom DACA To DeVos: Education Predictions For 2018
On the NPR Ed Team, I am what you might call the grizzled veteran. I've seen education trends come and go and come again. And go again. You get the idea. In years past, around December, my teammates...
View ArticleNearly 9,000 DACA Teachers Face An Uncertain Future
Of the 690 , 000 undocumented immigrants now facing an uncertain future as Congress and President Trump wrangle over the DACA program are about 8,800 school teachers. The real possibility that they'll...
View ArticleThe Gap Between The Science On Kids And Reading, And How It Is Taught
Mark Seidenberg is not the first researcher to reach the stunning conclusion that only a third of the nation's schoolchildren read at grade level. The reasons are numerous, but one that Seidenberg...
View ArticleWhat Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me
I remember back during the 1997-98 school year when we were all stunned by five school shootings within a period of eight months in places few Americans had heard of: Pearl, Miss., West Paducah, Ky.,...
View ArticleReinventing Community College To Reach Millions Of Workers — Online
The workforce is changing dramatically, and there's a widespread recognition that new skills — and new ways of teaching adults those skills — are needed and needed fast. In California, the state's 114...
View ArticleDemocrats Grill DeVos On Guns, Schools And Money
Democrats got their shot at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday, when she testified before a House committee about her department's proposed budget. The hearing followed widespread criticism of...
View ArticleA Visit To Topeka: Reflecting On Linda Brown's Legacy
I never met Linda Brown in person. But like many Americans I knew her story. And her death on Sunday reminded me that, in 1996, my NPR colleague and producer Walter Ray Watson and I spent several days...
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