The Daily Dispatch is our quick bites of real talk in education, every weekday. We publish every morning at 5:00 a.m., just in time for your daily coffee. International NewsUS Student Visa Pause: What international students need to know before studying in the US this year (Financial News) Judge Delays Ruling on Trump Efforts to Bar […]
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The Breakfast Blitz: A single dad grateful to be an educator
This column is a series of fiction stories inspired by reality. We publish short stories written by teachers each week. This week, a principal recounts her last week before summer break. Mr. Harris—Coach H to most—had three full-time jobs: teaching sixth-grade science, coaching middle school football, and raising two little girls under the age of […]
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ATA: A Teacher Asks… My Principal Betrayed Me…
A teacher asks… Am I being a butthole? Let me explain. For the past two years, I’ve looped with my students, first from 1st grade to second grade and then to third grade. My principal promised I’d follow them through 5th grade. On the last day of school, he called me into the office and […]
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Stop the Summer Slide: Simple ways to keep elementary aged kids learning all summer
You can see it as a teacher when students walk back into the classroom in the fall. The confident rhythm they had in May is gone. Kids forget how to decode simple words, form letters, and add and subtract with ease. It’s most evident in kindergarten through third grade when foundational reading, writing, and math […]
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Whitepaper: Media Literacy should be required in K-12 classrooms
In today’s rapidly evolving digital world, traditional literacy skills alone are no longer sufficient. Recent reports reveal alarming gaps: students graduating from high school without basic reading and writing proficiency, and college students widely relying on AI tools, such as ChatGPT, to complete assignments. These trends expose a critical shortfall in how education prepares young […]
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Museums must do more than display Black History—They must defend it
Growing up in Washington, D.C., I wandered the museums of the National Mall searching for something familiar, somewhere in the glass cases and solemn wall texts where my history might be acknowledged. Instead, I often found my heritage simplified, misrepresented, or entirely absent. It wasn’t until the opening of the National Museum of African American […]
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Report: The January Blues: A crisis among the nation’s new teachers
January Blues: The New Teacher Conundrum It was January. A month that, in the education world, is full of the mid-year blues, especially for new teachers. To those in the elementary world, it was a month of goal setting and getting the kids back into the swing of school after a long break with their […]
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The Price of Honor: Would you leave your school to raise your teaching salary?
The final bell echoed through the halls of Lakeview Elementary, followed by the usual stampede of feet and the buzz of excited chatter. Emily James* stood by her classroom window, watching the buses roll out. Her fourth-grade room—still humming with the ghosts of laughter and spelling tests—had never felt so still. On her desk sat […]