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This article was published with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom covering gender, politics, policy and power. Tulsa, Oklahoma With her long, wavy hair pulled back in a ponytail, the young mom sat alone outside courtroom 6 at the Tulsa County Family Center for Juvenile Justic, checking her phone and anxiously waiting for a court official to […]

Ohio officials are tackling the math struggles of students with an effort resembling its science of reading push, but have yet to deal with perhaps the most fundamental issue — how instruction should change. That decision won’t come until next April when the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce chooses between competing visions of how […]

With five simple words last year, Maine issued guidance that speaks volumes about how extreme weather is changing school. The law, Temperature Standards for School Buildings, clearly calls for each district in the state to set minimum and maximum temperature limits under which schools can operate. What’s left unsaid in this bill is what any […]

Compton, California Fifteen years ago, the challenge of leading the Compton Unified School District would have scared off even the most confident education leader. Darin Brawley almost passed it over. The urban system, just off one of Los Angeles’ major freeways, was headed for state takeover and had a 58% graduation rate. When the opening […]