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Education Week analyzes nearly 400 bills related to school safety filed in the days, weeks, and months after the deadliest K-12 school shooting in American history.

System allows secondary students to shift from vocational training to a degree roughly equivalent to the high school diploma.

Some states are trying to provide meaningful, rigorous, and flexible academic and career options for their students.

The administration is seeking to shift Stafford Loans to a market-based rate at the time of the loan, but some warn that such a move could dampen college access.

Pressures put on school systems by the upcoming common-core assessments, and increasing emphasis on digital learning, are straining districts' online capacity, the official says.

The District’s school system has extended the academic year by one day to make up for classes missed due to inclement weather, officials said Tuesday.

The school year was initially scheduled to end with a half-day of instruction on June 20. Now that will be a full day of instruction and classes will continue for a half-day on June 21.

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The first of two groups of states working to design common assessments has released a draft accommodations manual that outlines the types of test supports that can be used to help ELLs and students with disabilities.

About 90 students at the Culinary Institute of America walked out of classes Tuesday to protest what they called a weakening enforcement of educational standards.    

City leaders must make after-school education a priority, a group of mayors and city council members writes.

Teach For America has many good points, but it could do more to help its corps members, Lauren Blair Aronson writes.

From the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign:

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Talent and strong high school achievement can propel young black men to college, but a new study finds their determination and ability to handle setbacks is nearly as critical to their success at majority-white campuses.

High school teachers think their students are ready for college, but college professors beg to differ.

Middle school Teach For America teachers in Texas are outperforming other novice teachers in math, according to a new study.

A longer school day may help students' math performance, concludes and evaluation of 11 elementary and middle schools in Baltimore, New Orleans, and New York City.

A new report says it's time to push for new efforts to address decades-long disparities in how resources are parceled out to public schools.