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Most college students are taking online classes, but they’re paying just as much as in-person students
Most Americans think online courses should be cheaper than in-person college classes, but most online programs cost the same ...
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Chaos and confusion as the statistics arm of the Education Department is reduced to a skeletal staff of 3
This week’s mass layoffs by his secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, of more than 1,300 Department of Education employees delivered a crippling blow to the agency’s ability to tell the public how ...
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Shawn Healy
Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes and honor to what has become the world’s longest-standing experiment in ...
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Schools are surveilling kids to prevent gun violence or suicide. The lack of privacy comes at a cost
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OPINION: During civic learning week, let’s push for national progress toward a more perfect union
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Romila Santra
My family’s first and only move was for the sake of special education. My twin brother, Rohan, had just been diagnosed with profound nonverbal autism. We were 2 years old, and my parents realized the ...
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Coal plants are closing. For some schools, that means lost revenue and fewer jobs for graduates
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STUDENT VOICE: What losing the Department of Education would mean for special education
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Neal Morton
CRAIG, Colo. — Noah Pike nearly had the money in hand. This story also appeared in High Country News Growing up in Colorado’s coal belt, Pike constantly heard his father, uncles and both grandfathers ...