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She’s Going Into 6th Grade and Already Saving for College

By: James Barron — July 3rd 2023 at 08:09
A New York City program encourages children to save from kindergarten.
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Test Scores for U.S. 13-Year-Olds Show Lowest Math and Reading Levels In Decades

By: Dana Goldstein — June 21st 2023 at 21:13
The results are the federal government’s last major data release on the academic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

The last time math performance was this low for 13-year-olds was in 1990.
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New York City Schools Will Introduce ‘Massive’ Changes to Reading Curriculum

By: Troy Closson — May 9th 2023 at 16:35
Half of children in grades three to eight fail reading tests. The city’s schools chancellor, who has faulted the current approach, will begin rolling out new curriculums next year.

Over the last two decades, thousands of New York City children have struggled to pick up reading skills. Now, schools will be forced to change how they teach reading.
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The Income Gap Is Becoming a Physical-Activity Divide

By: Matt Richtel — March 25th 2023 at 09:05
Nationwide, poor children and adolescents are participating far less in sports and fitness activities than their more affluent peers.

Naomi Peralta, at left, prepares for a practice run at Highland High School in Albuquerque, N.M., in February.
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The Income Gap Is Becoming a Physical-Activity Divide

By: Matt Richtel — March 25th 2023 at 09:05
Nationwide, poor children and adolescents are participating far less in sports and fitness activities than their more affluent peers.
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America Should Be in the Middle of a Schools Revolution

By: David Brooks — February 17th 2023 at 00:00
Covid disrupted education, and now the task is to build something new.
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Two-Thirds of Kids Struggle to Read, and We Know How to Fix It

By: Nicholas Kristof — February 11th 2023 at 14:00
Experts warn that most American children learn with ineffective reading curriculums.
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Two-Thirds of Kids Struggle to Read, and We Know How to Fix It

By: Nicholas Kristof — February 11th 2023 at 14:00
Experts warn that most American children learn with ineffective reading curriculums.

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Agriculture Dept. Proposes Limits on Sugar and Salt in School Meals

By: Linda Qiu — February 3rd 2023 at 22:52
The proposed guidelines are part of the Biden administration’s push to address childhood obesity, diabetes and other diet-related diseases.

Sugar and salt will now be limited in school meals at the same time foods with whole grains will be increased according to new guidelines by the Biden administration.
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Why Black Families Are Leaving New York, and What It Means for the City

By: Troy Closson and Nicole Hong — February 4th 2023 at 01:33
Black children in particular are disappearing from the city, and many families point to one reason: Raising children here has become too expensive.

Athenia Rodney at her new home in Snellville, Ga., with her husband Kendall and three children. They moved away from New York City last summer.
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Students Lost One-Third of a School Year to Pandemic, Study Finds

By: Emily Baumgaertner — January 30th 2023 at 16:00
Learning delays and regressions were most severe in developing countries and among children from low-income backgrounds. And students still haven’t caught up.

Elementary school students returning to in-person learning in a school in California in 2021. Education deficits were equivalent to about 35 percent of a school year and remained steady, according to a new study.
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How Parenting Today Is Different, and Harder

By: Claire Cain Miller — January 30th 2023 at 15:21
Parents feel intense pressure to be more hands-on, and a new survey shows this often means more emotional engagement.

Nearly half of U.S. parents surveyed by Pew Research Center said that they were raising their children differently from how they had been raised.
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Newport News School Was Warned 3 Times That 6-Year-Old Had a Gun, Lawyer Says

By: Paul Bibeau and Sarah Mervosh — January 26th 2023 at 04:59
Under pressure, the school board voted to end the superintendent’s contract. Other administrators have also left the elementary school.
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6-Year-Old Accused of Shooting Teacher in Virginia Has ‘Acute Disability,’ Family Says

By: Sarah Mervosh and Campbell Robertson — January 19th 2023 at 21:14
The child had previously been accompanied by a parent every day in school, but that stopped the week of the shooting, his family said.

People gathered for a vigil for Abigail Zwerner, the first-grade teacher who was shot at Richneck Elementary School.
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School Searched 6-Year-Old’s Backpack Before Newport News Shooting, Officials Say

By: Sarah Mervosh and Eliza Fawcett — January 14th 2023 at 00:07
No weapon was found during the search, according to the school district. The 6-year-old boy is accused of later shooting his teacher.

The shooting at Richneck Elementary School on Jan. 6 prompted school officials to install metal detectors at all school buildings in the district.
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