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Student Success

Why free lunch may no longer be the best way to measure student need

Matt Zalaznick -
Free- and reduced-price lunch, used for decades to set school funding levels and track other accountability measures, no longer serves as an accurate proxy for student poverty, researchers say.

LGBTQ+ topics are being pushed out of schools. What do adults say?

Matt Zalaznick -
Despite a wave of new laws that hit schools this week, a majority of adults oppose banishing sexual orientation or gender identity topics from U.S. classrooms.

Here’s what just replaced COVID as K-12 leaders’ top school safety concern

Matt Zalaznick -
Even as cases plunge, the pandemic is still keeping K-12 leaders up at night, but as of last month, it is no longer what they are worried about most.

Let’s make COVID the catalyst for closing long-standing achievement gaps

Ryan Patenaude -
Here are three key requirements for success

Biden’s 2023 budget includes $11.9 billion boost for education

Charles Hendrix -
President's budget request includes $1 billion in funding for school counselors and mental health professionals. The administration proposed similar funding in 2022 but it was cut from the final spending package.

Why one state is reining in active shooter drills in its schools

Matt Zalaznick -
A new law bars live simulations as a growing number of voices are criticizing school shooter drills for doing more harm than good. 

What’s the big reason schools are closing now that COVID is waning?

Matt Zalaznick -
Bad weather used to be the main reason schools closed until COVID, and until social media—the latter of which is now closing classrooms far more regularly than is the pandemic.

5 ways high schools need to look different to get and keep students on track to graduate

Karen Hawley Miles -
The influx of one-time federal K-12 funding provides a unique opportunity to rethink how we organize resources so all high school students are well served

To improve ed tech, focus on feedback

Neil Heffernan -
Automated feedback can supplement in-person instruction by making teachers' jobs easier while personalizing student experience.

Mask tracker: Last batch of K-12 mandates have come to an end

Matt Zalaznick -
States that had mask mandates in place the longest are now lifting the requirement as districts across the country look to find a new normal.

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