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Federal How Trump's Cabinet Picks Could Affect K-12 Schools
Trump's Cabinet could affect everything from students' meals to schools' broadband access.
Evie Blad
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Policy & Politics Opinion The 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings Unveiled
The rankings recognize the university-based scholars in the United States whose influence shaped educational practice and policy.
Rick Hess
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2 min read
Policy & Politics Opinion The 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Scoring Formula
Rick Hess will unveil the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings tomorrow. Here is the methodology used to generate those rankings.
Rick Hess
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School Choice & Charters Private School Choice Will Keep Expanding in 2025. Here's Where and How
The conditions are ripe in at least a dozen states for proposals to invest public dollars in private educational options for families.
Mark Lieberman
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12 min read
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Law & Courts Biden's Title IX Rule to Expand Protections of Trans Students Struck Down
The Title IX rule improperly expands sex-discrimination protection to gender identity, the judge ruled.
Mark Walsh
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4 min read
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Policy & Politics Opinion 'Conversation Over. Case Closed.': Groupthink Is Hobbling Education Scholarship
Research isn't giving educators what they want, but a reset that encourages greater intellectual diversity is possible.
Rick Hess
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6 min read
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Kotryna Zukauskaite
Policy & Politics Opinion 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence: Top 10 Lists
Where scholars rank within their discipline may be more telling than where they are in the overall rankings.
Rick Hess
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1 min read
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    President Jimmy Carter gets a round applause as he passes out pens at the White House in Washington, Oct. 17, 1979 following the signing legislation establishing a Department of Education. From left are: Dr. Benjamin Mays former president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Rep. Jack Brooke (D-Texas), Carter, Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Connecticut).
    President Jimmy Carter gets a round of applause as he passes out pens at the White House in Washington, Oct. 17, 1979, following the signing of legislation that established a federal department of education. From left are: Dr. Benjamin Mays, former president of Morehouse College in Atlanta; Rep. Jack Brooke, D-Texas; Carter; and Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn. Carter died on Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100.
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    Federal Jimmy Carter and Education: Highlights of a Long Record on School Policy
    The 39th president oversaw the creation of the U.S. Department of Education.
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    Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter waves to the congregation after teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia on April 28, 2019. Carter, 94, has taught Sunday school at the church on a regular basis since leaving the White House in 1981, drawing hundreds of visitors who arrive hours before the 10:00 am lesson in order to get a seat and have a photograph taken with the former President and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
    Former President Jimmy Carter waves to the congregation after teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Ga., on April 28, 2019. He died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100.
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    Federal Jimmy Carter's Education Legacy Stretched From the School Board to the White House
    The 39th president helped create the U.S. Department of Education. He had also been a school board member and an education-minded governor.
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    Federal White House Starts Scrapping Pending Regulations on Transgender Athletes, Student Debt
    The Biden administration plans to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims.
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