Black students need more STEM career exposure

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Key points: Black students across the nation possess the aptitudes for in-demand STEM careers, but lack interest in pursuing them, indicating that a significant career exposure gap exists, likely due to underrepresentation in STEM careers.  The information comes from the 2024 Black Students and STEM Report from YouScience, a technology provider dedicated to solving the […]

Is remote work now worth more than a raise for America’s workforce?

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For years, employers assumed that salary would win every argument. Offer enough money, the thinking went, and workers would compromise on everything else: commute, culture, control over their time. That assumption seems to crumble and fracture under its own weight. A new survey by FlexJobs, based on responses from more than 2,000 US professionals in […]

How a district’s focus on data is advancing student growth

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Key points: How can district leaders and educators support student growth and effectively use data, in real time, to truly inform instruction and ensure high achievement? Tracking student growth is particularly critical now, as the country inches further away from COVID but is still tied to the pandemic’s impact by lingering learning loss and equity […]

School-home communication remains a challenge for many districts

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Key points: One-third of parents say they feel uninformed about their child’s progress in school, and less than 40 percent receive regular communication around supporting their child’s academic success, according to a survey from edtech solution company SchoolStatus. The lack of clarity around school-home communications is cause for concern, given that 77 percent of families surveyed […]

3 key strategies for district leaders to build a resilient educator workforce

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Key points: Teachers matter more to student achievement than any other aspect of schooling. Research shows that “when it comes to student performance on reading and math tests, teachers are estimated to have two to three times the effect of any other school factor, including services, facilities, and even leadership.” Yet, despite this significant impact, too often, […]

​A brittle shell: On ISRO and transparency

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A venerable institution, facing accusations of opacity, decided to stun its detractors with some transparency. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) made public the report of a technical committee, constituted to analyse why the NVS-02 satellite, which was launched aboard a GSLV rocket on January 29, 2025, could not be placed in its intended orbit. […]