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In 2024, nearly 2,000 apartments opened in former schools. Some see the conversions as a cure for neighborhood blight. Others fear gentrification the74million.org/article/as-enr…

ICYMI: ‘Soft’ or ‘durable’ skills are becoming more important for students, but there's been little effort to define what makes someone good at them — until now buff.ly/Jx5I5Ty

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Department of Education and Workforce Director Stephen Dackin have announced the launch of a statewide Attendance Dashboard in an effort to combat chronic absenteeism in K-12 public schools. Via @OhioCapJournal buff.ly/4ONWNe6

Podcast: How AI can help educators teach kids to read, without replacing connection buff.ly/w7lX5PX @michaelbhorn @once_reading

The Los Angeles Unified School District unanimously voted to curb classroom screen time, directing staff to develop a policy by June ahead of the upcoming school year. Via @EdSource buff.ly/KaZWHZy

Analysis: A core tenet of the high-impact tutoring movement has been that embedding extra assistance into the school day provides the best chance for improving student outcomes. It may be time to rethink the potential of afterschool programs buff.ly/oUQzf33

Five immigrant women providing home-based child care share how intensified immigration enforcement activities are shaping their work buff.ly/8Ji9jno

Nebraska schools continue to deny transfers for kids with disabilities. Lawmakers gutted a proposed fix. Co-published with @flatwaterfreep buff.ly/DSCsdvK

High school student Jacob Shaul started Mode to Code to teach programming and web development to other kids buff.ly/JDU8STM

McLeod: When people argue that schools should “run more like businesses,” they usually overlook one small detail: Most businesses wouldn’t survive a week under the constraints schools face every day buff.ly/EfFtAlE

Texas can force schools to post Ten Commandments, federal appeals court rules. Via @TexasTribune buff.ly/X4llNFv

Responding to states’ concerns about potential delays in funding, the U.S. Department of Education will continue to disperse Title I and other “formula” grants instead of handing that responsibility over to the Department of Labor buff.ly/PxG5ruc

.@StacyHurst15: In a moment when the literacy conversation is dominated by policy, programs and products, the most immediate and equitable intervention available risks being overlooked entirely: what families do every day buff.ly/35mK84k

Districts and charters with high participation in redesigned high school programs saw post-pandemic enrollment growth, according to a new report from @tytonpartners. Read more from @lrj417 here: buff.ly/qUU44x0

While most people have an intuitive sense of what skills like creativity and collaboration are, few have broken them down into clear components schools can use to teach students and test whether students have learned them until now. @PatrickONews reports buff.ly/Jx5I5Ty

.@usedgov, not @USDOL, to Distribute Funds for Schools This Summer @The74 the74million.org/article/educat…

Ward: Even as a recent study shows high rates of school segregation across New York, a network of charter schools in Brooklyn is using recruitment and admissions strategies to integrate its campuses along racial and socio-economic lines buff.ly/akliC0I

A new @PreschoolToday report finds that disparities among preschool enrollment and quality are growing as state priorities diverge buff.ly/JmDvQQo

How Should Educators Teach America's Story? x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

STARTING SOON! Join The 74 and @NextCityOrg at 1 p.m. ET for a conversation about adaptive reuse of schools the74million.org/article/repurp…

STARTING SOON! Join The 74 and @ppi at 1 p.m. ET for a special conversation on how to teach the full American story as the country turns 250 the74million.org/article/how-sh…