This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Top Takeaways Jair Solis graduated from UC Merced after years of navigating family detention, fears of deportation and immigration raids. Research shows immigration enforcement can harm students’ mental health, attendance and academic performance — challenges Solis said he experienced firsthand. The family’s […]
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Jahque Bryan-Gooden: Redefining Education Through Justice, Culture, and Joy
Jahque Bryan-Gooden’s journey in education is as vivid and layered as the classrooms she envisions, a space where every child’s humanity is honored, their culture celebrated, and their potential nurtured. From her earliest memories at age nine, she recalls walking through the ruby-red doors of a school in Harlem, greeted by a rooftop garden, a […]
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ICE Raids Caused Enrollment to Drop. Now Districts Are Paying the Price
As leaders ask lawmakers to help fill budget gaps, conservatives escalate the debate over serving undocumented students. By Linda Jacobson This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. Community members packed a high school […]
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When Numbers Tell Stories: Connecting Math and English in the classroom
Some educators may balk at combining English and Math under the heading of language arts, while some students might unhappily conclude that learning math is like learning a foreign language. There’s truth in the latter view considering, for example, that the basis of solving word problems algebraically is translating words into math expressions. Math is […]
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Protecting the Brain in the Age of Bypass: How to preserve critical thinking when shortcuts are everywhere
Our students aren’t broken. In fact, if we look at what we as a society have trained them to do, they’re performing extremely well. We handed them devices engineered by the most sophisticated attention architects in human history, we gave those devices to them younger and younger, and we stood by while algorithmic platforms spent […]
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New research reinforces the importance of recess
For generations, recess has been viewed by many students as the best part of the school day. But according to pediatricians, researchers, and child development experts, recess is far more than a pause between lessons—it is a critical part of healthy learning and development. A growing body of research, reaffirmed by the American Academy of […]
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Dr. Sawsan Jaber: Championing Voice, Agency, and Educational Justice
Dr. Sawsan Jaber’s career in education has never been defined by comfort or convention—it has been guided by necessity, conviction, and a deep commitment to justice. From a young age, she gravitated toward spaces where learning was transformative, where teachers modeled agency, and where students could see themselves as capable of shaping their worlds. Born […]
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A Memoir of Ostracization: This disgusting feast of filth
Like most of my fellow human beings, I have made mistakes. I lied about eating a second cookie when I was ten years old. I did not signal my intent to turn and accidentally cut off a minivan full of children on their way to soccer practice. I even forgot to wear a hat during […]