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GOP education bill would make college even less affordable for many, experts say

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Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Some believe that with fewer options from the government to pay for school, students and educators would have to think more carefully about how to finance the cost of a degree. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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How teachers can talk about the Israel-Hamas conflict

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Her staff reaches out to community groups and others for their input.

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Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61 

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On March 27, the Department of Health And Human Services announced it was cutting a further 10,000 jobs, and reorganizing the Administration for Children and Families, which administers Head Start. Head Start is in every community in America, said Cara Sklar, director of early & elementary education policy at the D.C.-based

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OPINION: If Trump wins, count on continued culture wars, school vouchers and a fixation on ending the federal Department of Education

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Many Republican proposals have been well-covered , starting with Project 2025 — the policy agenda assembled by the conservative Heritage Foundation for a new Trump term. Such a call echoes that of Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation, in his Foreword to Project 2025.

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OPINION: Time to bring back our relationship with UNESCO for its strong commitment to education

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The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

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Educating Early Read comprehensive coverage of young learners with Hechinger’s biweekly Early Childhood newsletter. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

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