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The four-day school week experiment is over for Kingsville: It’s back to five days

KINGSVILLE — Two years after choosing to experiment with a shortened school week, the Kingsville Independent School District is going back to a five-day week. The Kingsville ISD Board of Trustees ...
Education Week

Inside One District’s Experiment to Anchor Learning Around Career-Ready Skills

When students in the Ephrata, Pa., district complete a project, their goal is not just to explain what content they know, but ...
Washington Examiner

Marcus A. Winters: Public schools should experiment like charter schools

The new line of attack against charter schools is that they have failed to achieve their original mission. In her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Diane Ravitch joins ...
Edutopia

Experimenting at the End of the School Year

The final weeks of the semester are the perfect time to try different strategies and new tools, and test student-led learning ...
foxsanantonio

Segregation experiment at local school questioned by congressman, encouraged by expert

SAN ANTONIO (KABB/WOAI) - A local congressman is demanding answers from Northside Independent School District leaders after a controversial lesson on racism. News 4 Troubleshooter Jaie Avila uncovered ...
NOLA.com

Letters: Charter school experiment has failed New Orleans children

Following Hurricane Katrina, a newly enacted state law identified schools that scored below the state average as failing and subject to takeover. The state took over 107 of New Orleans’ 120 public ...