Same Teacher, Two Years: What Research Says Schools Keep Getting Wrong

Research confirms what parents of struggling learners already sense: keeping the same teacher for two years raises test scores, cuts suspensions, and preserves the hard-earned knowledge of what the child needs. Most schools reset that knowledge every September. A DC charter school is proving there is another way.

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Federal Data That Protects Special Ed Kids Is Six Months Overdue

The federal dataset that tracks disability services in every public school was due in December. It’s still missing. At the same time, $15 billion in special ed funding is being restructured and disability tracking is being reduced. Here’s what parents of children with IEPs need to understand now.

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Want Kids Ready for AI Jobs? Fix the Reading Gap First

New data show P-TECH’s multi-system model lifts first-generation and diverse learners into AI-era careers. The design principles behind it are what reading science has backed for decades—and what struggling learners need starting in elementary school, not high school.

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Want Kids Ready for AI Jobs? Fix the Reading Gap First

New data show P-TECH’s multi-system model lifts first-generation and diverse learners into AI-era careers. The design principles behind it are what reading science has backed for decades—and what struggling learners need starting in elementary school, not high school.

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When Budgets Tighten, At-Risk Students Lose Schools Built for Them

A district says enrollment decline requires a cheaper building. Parents say moving at-risk students to portables behind the school they fled will undo the one environment where their kids finally succeeded. The research on what happens when you remove a struggling learner’s scaffold backs the parents.

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