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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2021

ED Surge

Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education. Some will keep tutoring, even if they are driven underground or are forced to take lower rates. But for some, the situation is still fraught.

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NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading

The Hechinger Report

The district gave all kindergarten through second-grade teachers scripted lesson plans featuring phonics. They are part of a nationwide movement to embrace what cognitive science shows us about how students learn to read, particularly about the role of phonics—and they see this as a path toward social justice.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

As Rand earned community service hours tutoring children, she wondered if teaching was in her future. This fall, Justice Grisby began stopping by the Nollie Jenkins Center to vent with her peers about their school. No one had left lesson plans for their substitute teacher, so most of the time, her class just filled out worksheets.