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Schools, students battle learning gaps worsened by pandemic

Schools, students battle learning gaps worsened by pandemic

"We need to be bold as we reopen our schools and reimagine learning. To make sure we don't go back to a system that had the same inequities before the pandemic." — Sec. Cardona, while saying funds from American Rescue Plan will be used to help address education inequities | PBS NewsHour

"We need to be bold as we reopen our schools and reimagine learning. To make sure we don't go back to a system that had the same inequities before the pandemic." — Sec. Cardona, while saying funds from American Rescue Plan will be used to help address education inequities | PBS NewsHour

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Administrators and teachers say they remain concerned about ongoing problems with student behavior — conduct that can be disruptive and difficult to deal with. We heard from teachers across the country about their concerns. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

Administrators and teachers say they remain concerned about ongoing problems with student behavior — conduct that can be disruptive and difficult to deal with. We heard from teachers across the country about their concerns. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

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For a perspective on arming teachers and other responses to ongoing school safety concerns, Becky Pringle of the National Education Association spoke with our Stephanie Sy. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

For a perspective on arming teachers and other responses to ongoing school safety concerns, Becky Pringle of the National Education Association spoke with our Stephanie Sy. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

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WATCH: A growing number of school districts throughout the U.S. have downsized the school week from five days to four. We traveled to Bayard, New Mexico, to visit a school district that just completed its first year with the new schedule. | PBS NewsHour

WATCH: A growing number of school districts throughout the U.S. have downsized the school week from five days to four. We traveled to Bayard, New Mexico, to visit a school district that just completed its first year with the new schedule. | PBS NewsHour

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With graduation season in full swing, the class of 2024 is reflecting on a highly unusual four years of school. Their freshman experience was marked by pandemic lockdowns, but that was just the first in a chain of momentous global events. We spoke to some members of this class about how they're looking back and forward. Sam Lane produced this report for broadcast. | PBS NewsHour

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For over 100 years, hundreds of thousands of Native American children in the U.S. were placed into boarding schools where they were forced to abandon their language and culture. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how a Colorado college is reckoning with that history. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

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In the last few years, school boards have increasingly reflected the nation’s polarized, political divisions. Judy Woodruff reports on one district where policies around library books, gender, sports and how race and history are taught have divided some in the community. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

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Students applying to colleges now are the first class to deal with the impact of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn affirmative action in admissions. For many high school students, this annual rite of passage is now trickier to navigate. Hari Sreenivasan reports. | PBS NewsHour

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Schools across the country have benefitted from federal COVID relief funds. That’s true in Missouri, but experts say fixing funding gaps in public education will require long-term sustained investment. Communities correspondent Gabrielle Hays has this report. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

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WATCH: How one school is using AI to give their students feedback

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Three years after the largest one-time infusion of federal money dedicated to education, school districts have used the money in different ways. Geoff Bennett recently visited a school in Virginia that used the money to add more days to its academic year. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

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For over a century, hundreds of thousands of Native American were forced to attend boarding schools in the name of assimilation. Many suffered abuse and neglect. Stephanie Sy reports on new findings about the role of religious groups. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

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Are Teachers Being Adequately Trained for the Classroom?

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It’s graduation season and that means politicians, actors and others are imparting sage advice and encouragement to college graduates around the country. Here are some of the life lessons this year’s commencement speakers passed on to 2023 grads. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

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Micaela DeSimone is a sixth grade teacher in Queens, New York, and explains how the past few years have changed her views on what was once her dream job. https://to.pbs.org/3MzB3rB | PBS NewsHour

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WATCH: “When this nation made 12 years of public education universal in the last century, it made us the best-educated and best-prepared nation in the world,” President Biden said, discussing his American Families Plan. “Twelve years is no longer enough today.” to.pbs.org/2PlSSBU | PBS NewsHour

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Connecting the classroom to promising health careers

Education Secretary Linda McMahon joined House Democrats at a news conference outside the U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday after they met and had an “open discussion” on the future of the federal agency. "We are extraordinarily grateful that the secretary gave us the space to have these conversations,” Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-NM, said as McMahon stood off-camera and off to the side. “But with all due respect, madam, I think my biggest concern is that the states will not be able to pro

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Tuesday afternoon, the Department of Education announced plans to cut nearly half of its employees, more than 1,300 people. It’s the latest move by the Trump administration to dramatically reshape the size and scope of the federal government. Lisa Desjardins reports. | PBS NewsHour

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Educators try to turn around pandemic-era learning loss

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It's a slippery annual tradition. U.S. Naval Academy freshmen, or "plebes," end their first year by working together to climb the Herndon Monument, a 21-foot-tall granite obelisk on campus that's been greased with vegetable shortening. Their goal: retrieve a plebe “Dixie cup,” a white canvas sailor’s hat, from atop the monument and replace it with the hat of an upperclassman. Completing this task earns the plebes the title of fourth class midshipmen at the academy. This year, it came with a twis

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