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EXPLAINER: The American Rescue Plan Gives a Huge Boost to School Funding in New Jersey

Laura Waters April 12, 2021

What is the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021? You may have heard it as the “second big COVID stimulus,” but the actual name is

Get Kids Connected: On Wednesday, Join the Day of Action to Get Students Connected to Broadband

Staff Writer March 30, 2021

A year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down U.S. schools. A year into the pandemic, 12 million students still lack adequate broadband access at home. The Federal

COVID-19 Has Made Student Assessment More Important Than Ever

contributor March 26, 2021

This is a op-ed by Andrew Pillow, a fifth-grade social studies teacher at a KIPP public charter school in Indianapolis, where he has taught for

Amanda Gorman Is Climbing That Hill. Now if Only The Rest of Us Would Join Her.

Laura Waters January 21, 2021

Yesterday at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s inauguration, Amanda Gorman stole the show. Lady Gaga? J-Lo? Garth Brooks? No contest. This twenty-two-year-old

No Retakes, No Extensions: A Student’s Open Letter To Incoming Education Secretary Miguel Cardona

Guest Contributor January 20, 2021

This is a post by Gregory Wickham, a New York City student. He is the son of best-selling writer Alina Adams, who manages brightbeam’s blog, New York School

After the Insurrection, It’s Time To Listen To MLK

Guest Contributor January 18, 2021

Tanesha Peeples is the Deputy Director for Activist Development at brightbeam. This post forst appeared on Education Post, one of brightbeam’s national blogs.. Y’all know

COMMENTARY: Was DeVos Really the “Worst Secretary of Education Ever”?

Laura Waters January 8, 2021

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned last night, citing Wednesday’s putsch at the Capitol, Trump’s incitement of violence, and her concern that “impressionable children are watching all

It's Every Student Succeeds Act’s Fifth Anniversary But There's Nothing to Celebrate

Patrick Riccards December 10, 2020

Five years ago TikTok, the video-sharing social networking platform, didn’t even exist. Today, the New York Times reports that over one-third of its 49 million daily users

Without Assessment Data, We Won't Get Our Kids Back on Track.

Guest Contributor December 4, 2020

This post is by my brightbeam colleague Garris Landon Stroud, a teacher from Greenville, Kentucky who runs the Kentucky School Talk blog. He is a published author

Will We Bury Our Heads in the Sand or Get Serious About Covid Learning Loss?

Patrick Riccards December 1, 2020

“More than ever, it is abundantly clear there is a need for real-time data on where our children stand academically.” – M. Teresa Ruiz, NJ

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