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Meet The 5 New Inductees Of The National Teachers Hall Of Fame

Emporia, Kansas is home to rolling prairies, wheat fields, and the world's biggest frisbee golf tournament. But the reason we went there: the National Teacher Hall of Fame, which gives the place it's...

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There's a National Teachers Hall of Fame? Who Knew?

If you've ever driven south into Kansas on Interstate 35, past rolling prairies and wheat fields, eventually you'll run into the town of Emporia, population 25,000 and home to the National Teachers...

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Five Years In, What's Next For DACA?

Demonstrators came from across the country to gather at the White House in support of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as toddlers and children. Five years ago today, President...

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Paul Miller Loved Teaching Math So Much That He Did It For Nearly 80 Years

Most teachers these days last no more than five to 10 years in the classroom, but Paul Miller taught math for nearly 80. At one point, he was considered the "oldest active accredited teacher" in the...

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'You See In Their Eyes The Fear': DACA Students Face An Uncertain Future

Erik Erazo says the end of the DACA program threatens all the things that the young people he works with have achieved. "You see in their eyes the fear, that's the heartbreaker," says Erazo, a high...

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Here's What 2 Big College Systems Think Of The End Of DACA

This week, President Trump finally made good on his campaign promise to end DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This 2012 administrative program implemented by President Obama, has allowed...

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Getting The Most Out Of Pre-K, 'The Most Important' Year In School

Suzanne Bouffard's new book, The Most Important Year, may be just what parents of preschoolers have been waiting for: a guide to what a quality pre-K program should look like. Bouffard spent a lot of...

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Interviews At The Airport: Teachers From Puerto Rico Find New Schools In Orlando

Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now a story about starting over in a new place. There are a lot of new students and teachers in Orlando's public schools this year. That...

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'A New Reality': Students And Teachers From Puerto Rico Start Over In Florida

It's 5:30 a.m. and dark in the fifth-floor hotel room, just a few minutes' drive from the Orlando airport. There are still 20 minutes before the entire family needs to be downstairs to enjoy the free...

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This Nun Has Been Fighting For Migrant Kids For 45 Years

In 1965, Congress took a major step in addressing the plight of schoolchildren growing up in some of the nation's most impoverished communities: It passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. At...

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Does Preschool Pay Off? Tulsa Says Yes

In 2001, not long after Oklahoma had adopted one of the nation's first universal pre-K programs, researchers from Georgetown University began tracking kids who came out of the program in Tulsa,...

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From DACA To DeVos: Education Predictions For 2018

On the NPR Ed Team, I am what you might call the grizzled veteran. I've seen education trends come and go and come again. And go again. You get the idea. In years past, around December, my teammates...

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Nearly 9,000 DACA Teachers Face An Uncertain Future

Of the 690 , 000 undocumented immigrants now facing an uncertain future as Congress and President Trump wrangle over the DACA program are about 8,800 school teachers. The real possibility that they'll...

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The Gap Between The Science On Kids And Reading, And How It Is Taught

Mark Seidenberg is not the first researcher to reach the stunning conclusion that only a third of the nation's schoolchildren read at grade level. The reasons are numerous, but one that Seidenberg...

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What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me

I remember back during the 1997-98 school year when we were all stunned by five school shootings within a period of eight months in places few Americans had heard of: Pearl, Miss., West Paducah, Ky.,...

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Reinventing Community College To Reach Millions Of Workers — Online

The workforce is changing dramatically, and there's a widespread recognition that new skills — and new ways of teaching adults those skills — are needed and needed fast. In California, the state's 114...

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Democrats Grill DeVos On Guns, Schools And Money

Democrats got their shot at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday, when she testified before a House committee about her department's proposed budget. The hearing followed widespread criticism of...

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A Visit To Topeka: Reflecting On Linda Brown's Legacy

I never met Linda Brown in person. But like many Americans I knew her story. And her death on Sunday reminded me that, in 1996, my NPR colleague and producer Walter Ray Watson and I spent several days...

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California's Higher Ed Diversity Problem

In 1996, right after voters in California banned affirmative action in employment and college admissions, minority student enrollment at two and four-year institutions plummeted. What has happened...

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Study: Colleges That Ditch The SAT And ACT Can Enhance Diversity

There are now well over 1,000 colleges and universities that don't require SAT or ACT scores in deciding whom to admit, a number that's growing every year. And a new study finds that scores on those...

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