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How Can Schools Help End Hunger? Invite Kids to Dinner
How Can Schools Help End Hunger? Invite Kids to Dinner
For every 10 students who eat a free or reduced-price lunch, only one has a meal or snack after school, one study finds. Free school…
Jackie Ashton
May 30
Why Some Schools Want Students to Eat Breakfast in Class
Why Some Schools Want Students to Eat Breakfast in Class
Students do better when they’ve been fed. And sharing a meal ends the free-food stigma, while giving kids a chance to practice teamwork.
Kathleen Carroll
May 26
School Segregation Can Be Fixed
School Segregation Can Be Fixed
More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, integrated schools remain the exception not the rule. But with community support, the…
Amadou Diallo
May 24
Why Every 8th-Grade Student Should Write a Résumé
Why Every 8th-Grade Student Should Write a Résumé
You don’t have to be an adult to write and revise a CV. The process can help adolescents learn more about themselves.
David Ng
May 22
Educators: This is How to Help Your Syrian Students
Educators: This is How to Help Your Syrian Students
Immigration status and PTSD may play a part in student performance. Knowing this, and more, will allow American teachers to help their…
Shiyam Galyon
May 19
A History of School Lunch in Pictures
A History of School Lunch in Pictures
From liver loaf to the five food groups, cafeteria fare in the U.S. has gone through a big transformation in the last 100 years. These…
Andrea Gurwitt
May 18
School Lunches are Too Short. And That’s a Problem
School Lunches are Too Short. And That’s a Problem
Rushed eating can affect kids’ health and create food waste. A growing movement is fighting to give students more time at the table.
Holly Korbey
May 15
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Teaching Personal Finance in the Age of Venmo
Teaching Personal Finance in the Age of Venmo
Forget checkbooks. Forget cash. Nowadays, it’s all about apps and debit cards, and how to manage them.
Kathleen Lynn
May 12
Stop Teaching Girls to Code
Stop Teaching Girls to Code
Kids under 10 should be playing outside instead of interacting with devices inside.
Jessica Carew Kraft
May 10
To My Beloved Wife, the Teacher
To My Beloved Wife, the Teacher
On National Teacher Day, I want you to know just how awesome you are.
LuisMiguelEchegaray
May 9
Don’t Just Teach Kids How to Code, Teach Them Algorithms, Too
Don’t Just Teach Kids How to Code, Teach Them Algorithms, Too
Coding is the cool kid right now, but there’s a lot more to computer science. Like algorithms, which are useful in life as well as online.
Ali Almossawi
May 8
Looks Like Silicon Valley Wants to Disrupt Your Kid’s Lunch
Looks Like Silicon Valley Wants to Disrupt Your Kid’s Lunch
More than 30 million American students rely on school meals. But can an app fix the glitches?
Doug Bierend
May 5
Bring Back Home Ec.
Bring Back Home Ec.
What life skill is more important than knowing how to feed your family and yourself?
Fiona Tapp
May 3
Why More Schools Should Go Solar
Why More Schools Should Go Solar
A single school district in North Carolina could save enough money in energy costs to hire 1,000 more teachers in the next 25 years.
DeAndrea Salvador
May 1
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