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July 5

Innovation Jul 5 New Missouri Virtual School Offers Credits Without Fixing Why Students Fell Behind Missouri's new K12-powered virtual high school targets teens who fell behind. Research shows online credit recovery doesn't improve graduation rates, and the program structurally cannot deliver IEP services requiring in-person…

July 4

Innovation Jul 4 Schools Pushed These Teens Out. Philadelphia Built Them an Evening High School. Philadelphia’s new evening high school for pushed-out teens is built around special education teachers and IEP support — because the students it serves were identifiable years earlier. The innovation is…

July 3

Innovation Jul 3 When Grades Slip, Schools Cut Arts. Georgia Is Rewarding Schools That Don’t. Georgia honored five schools for embedding arts across every subject, not as enrichment, but as instruction. The science of reading has known for decades that multi-sensory learning is how struggling… Innovation Jul 3 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…

July 1

Innovation Jul 1 Singapore Cracked Math Instruction Decades Ago. American Classrooms Are Still Catching Up. Nearly 200 Utah teachers learned a Singapore-inspired math model that research shows works better than the procedural approach most US classrooms default to — especially for kids who struggle. Here…

June 28

Innovation Jun 28 San Diego Schools Pull Screens From Early Grades Starting This Fall San Diego Unified joined Los Angeles in voting to remove screens from early classrooms. What the mainstream coverage misses is why this matters specifically for children still learning to read. Innovation Jun 28 LAUSD Bans Classroom Screens Before Second Grade: Ask What Fills the Time Los Angeles just banned classroom screens for its youngest students. The instinct is right — but for children who struggle with reading, what replaces the screen time matters far more…

June 23

Innovation Jun 23 Iowa Opens Statewide Summer Math Training for Teachers Under New Law Math struggle often traces to how the subject is taught, not to a child who lacks ability. Iowa opened statewide summer training in evidence-based math instruction, part of a new…

April 22

Innovation Apr 22 St. Paul Launches Minnesota’s First Afrocentric Public School Program Benjamin E. Mays School in St. Paul is pioneering a new approach to education with the launch of Minnesota's first public school district-run Afrocentric learning program. Innovation Apr 22 Utah’s First Waldorf-Inspired High School Opens in Utah County Utah welcomes its first Waldorf-inspired high school, offering a unique blend of practical, hands-on learning and arts-integrated education.