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POLITICO Get the Weekly Education newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 02/22/2021 10:00 AM EST Editor’s Note: Welcome to Weekly Education: Coronavirus special edition. Each week, we will explore how the pandem...

Feb 21, 2021 Students at Alcott Middle School arrive on campus Aug. 17, 2017, for the first day of school. WalletHub recently ranked Oklahoma as the seventh least educated state in the country. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript A study released on Tuesday by a personal finance website ranks Oklahoma as one of the least educated states in the country. For the study, WalletHub analysts looked at 18 metrics across all 50 states including education attainment, schoo...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Texas minority students have always faced inequalities compared to their white peers, but new data shows the COVID-19 pandemic is widening the education gap, and that could mean negative consequences for everyone in the state. School leaders and educational advocates warned during an ABC13 town hall Thursday night that lawmakers only have a small window of time to take action, as thousands of students have disengaged from virtual learning or have been lost in the shuffl...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State officials confirmed Friday they are seeking permission from federal officials to waive standardized reading, math and science testing for another year, citing...

Math and reading scores for 12th graders in the U.S. were at a historic low even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced a massive shift to remote learning, according to results of the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress released in late 2020. We asked three scholars to explain why so many high school seniors aren’t proficient in these critical subjects. Elizabeth Leyva, director of entry-level mathematics, Texas A&M University-San Antonio One might expect the jump from high school t...

The Biden administration will soon begin collecting data from thousands of U.S. schools to find out how they have been affected by the pandemic, including

The Florida Department of Health reported 7,486 new cases on Saturday, bringing the state’s overall total to 1,771,359 cases since the coronavirus pandemic began in March.

I moved to Iowa in 2014 to work in the teacher education program at the University of Northern Iowa. I was excited to come to a state that was known for its long and celebrated history of public education. So, I have to admit that it has been quite the disappointment to see state leaders work to dismantle this legacy by introducing so-called “school choice” legislation and to do so in the name of “equity” and “school improvement.” According to Gov. Reynolds and Rep...

Sharon Hartin Iorio The events of 2020 make it clear that violence, racism, vocal extremism and political polarization have risen to a breaking point. There are multiple currents of people moving within the American public who simply don’t understand the basics of civil society and democratic government. Decades-long de-emphasis of civics instruction in schools across the nation and in Kansas isn’t by any stretch of the imagination a major cause of the summer riots or the Capitol insurrect...

State education officials have sent a second request to the federal government to cancel state assessments for Michigan schoolchildren, saying a majority of students have received inconsistent or no in-person instruction during the 2020-21 school year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. State superintendent of instruction Michael Rice sent the request on Monday to acting U.S. Secretary of Education Phil Rosenfelt, seeking waivers from assessment and accountability requirements under the fe...