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Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

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10/06/2017

Traveling south about an hour from downtown Pittsburgh along Pennsylvania Route 43, visitors roll into Coal Center, home to Intermediate Unit 1, a regional education service agency. Intermediate Unit 1 also serves as home to a Fab Lab — a highly...

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New York’s Graduation Rate Could Drop Under New Federal Education Law

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10/05/2017

New York state’s high school graduation rate may take a hit due to an under-the-radar provision in the new federal education law.

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New York City Students Are Getting Younger

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10/05/2017

New York City's preschool expansion is not happening in quite the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes for 4-year-olds, when the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the school system over the course of two years.

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Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

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10/05/2017

At the start of December 2014, New York Post reporter Susan Edelman sent an intriguing public records request to the city’s Department of Education. “Under the Freedom of Information [sic], I request all e-mail communications since Dec. 30, 2013...

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City to Build 1,000-Seat High School in Long Island City

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10/04/2017

The city will construct a new high school with room for nearly 1,000 students in Dutch Kills, according to the Department of Education.

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Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

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10/04/2017

Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance — attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data.

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Study Finds Test-Score Growth at NYC Charter Schools Outpaces District Schools

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10/04/2017

Analysis from a Stanford center says that on average, charter students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading.

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Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’

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10/04/2017

Success Academy founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz has more in common with her longtime foe New York Mayor Bill de Blasio than you might think, she told an audience in Washington Tuesday.

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Would a Later School Start Time Increase Student Success?

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10/04/2017

How much sleep do teens get each night during the school year?

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Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation

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10/04/2017

Cofounder and former Executive Director of Young Invincibles Jen Mishory and Skadden Fellow and attorney Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation, a leading progressive public policy think tank with offices in New York and Washington, D.C.

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