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    Closing Comments

    July 9, 2024
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    Executive decisions

    July 1, 2023
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    Editor's Focus: School Shootings

    April 13, 2023
    I began to write this column about schools and guns, but it seemed that before I could get even a few paragraphs completed, a new case would grab the headlines. The sheer volume...
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    Let it snow

    Feb. 3, 2023
    Snow days are becoming a relic of the past at many schools.
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    Test scores and death counts

    Oct. 3, 2022
    Newly released results from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) show that the reading and mathematics scores of 9-year-old students fell significantly between...
    Mike Kennedy New 2110

    A blip, or a worrisome trend?

    July 1, 2022
    A year ago, looking ahead to the 2021-22 school year, I wrote about the understandable but still significant decline in higher education enrollment in the midst of the Covid-19...
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    Learning in fear

    June 9, 2022
    Just a few weeks after I began writing for American School & University, two students at Columbine High School in Colorado unleashed a shooting attack that killed 12 of their ...
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    The long road back

    March 1, 2021
    The accelerated pace of vaccinations and classrooms reopening are a hopeful sign.
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    A New Beginning

    Feb. 1, 2021
    As the clock ticked toward noon in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, millions of educators and other Americans listened with anticipation as they heard the words, “I, Joseph Robinette...
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    1,000 Cuts

    Oct. 1, 2020
    Schools and universities need more financial help from Congress as they cope with Covid-19
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    Investing in Infrastructure

    June 1, 2017
    For schools and beyond, interest in infrastructure issues will surely grow—especially over the months ahead.