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Scout Smissen, a 17-year-old junior at Roosevelt High School becomes emotional while speaking to a crowd of hundreds at Red Square on the University of Washington campus in Seattle.

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Across The Country, Students Walk Out To Protest Gun Violence

6:20pm March 14, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

One month after the shootings in Parkland, thousands of schools are becoming sites of protest. At 10 a.m., students walked out for 17 minutes — one minute for each Parkland victim who died.

Historic Instrument Revived By Winston-Salem Eighth Grade Students

1:38pm February 16, 2018

by David Ford

Back in the 1930s, the Reynolds family kept a calliope in their hog pens near what is today the Scales Fine Arts Center on the Wake Forest University campus.

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With Thousands Of Homeless Students, This District Put Help Right In Its Schools

9:48am February 02, 2018

by Bill Zeeble

The Dallas school district estimates it has 3,600 homeless students and help for them is now nearby. Nearly every high school has a resource center for students with food, clothes and counseling.

Barbara J. King asks: What benefits might students find in slow-teaching?

Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace?

11:02am February 01, 2018

by Barbara J. King

Why do we forget so much of what we read? Anthropologist Barbara J. King suggests that the answer might point toward benefits of a slower pace of teaching in the college classroom.

Teacher and students learning about Twitter

Teach Students To Use Social Media (The Right Way) And The Possibilities Are Endless

6:00am January 26, 2018

by Ariana Figueroa

Social media can be a big part of students' lives, and teachers across the country are finding ways to use popular platforms as teaching tools.

Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way?

12:02pm January 24, 2018

by Anya Kamenetz

We asked teachers, professors, a psychiatrist and a technologist for their thoughts, and we heard a range of opinions on one of the most "weirdly divisive" issues in education.

Ballou High School, in Washington, D.C.'s Southeast quadrant, is located in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods and has struggled academically for years. An investigation by WAMU and NPR has found that the school's administration graduated dozens of s

Students Across D.C. Graduated Despite Chronic Absences, An Investigation Finds

4:33pm January 16, 2018

by Kate McGee

An official investigation into Ballou High School and other high schools in the District of Columbia found that students received diplomas despite missing more than 30 days in at least one class.

College students give up talking and technology for a month as part of a "Living Deliberately" course.

Monks For A Month: College Kids Give Up Talking — And Technology

12:50pm November 09, 2017

by Barbara J. King

Students in this "Living Deliberately"' class embrace asceticism and challenge stereotypes of college kids who can't put down their cellphones, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.

To Fail Or Not To Fail: The Fierce Debate Over High Standards

4:00am November 01, 2017

With 40 percent of its students at risk of failing, one radical new high school in Washington, D.C., wrestles with whether to lower its own high expectations.

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'They Can't Just Be Average': Lifting Students Up Without Lowering The Bar

12:14pm October 25, 2017

In a radical new high school in Washington, D.C., the push for academic success sometimes clashes with providing young men the love and support they need to thrive.

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