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A month of lycée blockades over missing teachers and crumbling schools spilled into nationwide marches on October 17. What students want, what the government has said, what comes next, and what Indian students and travellers in France should check now.
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New York and Los Angeles have paused most student use of AI this school year. Naperville 203 and Indian Prairie 204 leave much of it to the classroom teacher. The 203 board meets tonight.
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US seniors posted their worst-ever reading scores; India's foundational reading is recovering. India treats reading as a skill. America treats it as taste.
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Worksheets drill compliance, gamified apps reward clicking — neither builds reasoning. How adaptive Socratic AI tutors could change the equation.
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The IITs admit 17,000 students a year while state universities educate 35 million. India's education story isn't about the top — it's about everyone else,
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In 2013, the University of Chicago announced a 17,000-square-foot academic center in Delhi's Connaught Place. It opened the following year.
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Flip teaching reverses the classroom: students watch lesson videos at home and do homework in class. Early results — like Clintondale's — were striking.
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A seven-year University of Georgia study found early daters had the worst study skills and double the alcohol and drug use — likely part of a risk pattern.
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No standardized tests, no private schools, teachers treated like doctors: what Pasi Sahlberg says the world keeps missing about Finland's schools.
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Dale Stephens, founder of UnCollege, argues that with the average graduate carrying $27,000 in debt, college is a gamble worth rethinking.
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A West Chester, Pennsylvania teacher swapped her fifth-graders' chairs for yoga balls — and says it's one of the best decisions of her 11-year career.
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New York's schools keep redesigning gifted-program admissions to beat the test-prep industry — and the industry keeps winning. A 2013 look at the arms race.
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A 2013 SAMHSA report found that American teens who drop out before graduating are far more likely to smoke, drink, and use drugs than their in-school peers.
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A 2012 school debate in Tennessee asked a fair question: if homework is practice, why score it like a test? The case for and against grading homework.
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Visually impaired Pratish Datta topped his M.Sc. Mathematics batch at IIT Kharagpur in 2012 and received the gold medal from President Pranab Mukherjee.
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Gaithersburg Elementary scrapped worksheets in 2012 and assigned only 30 minutes of nightly reading — and test scores held up.
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Florida Virtual School, founded in 1997, became the country's largest online school by 2010. What its early experiment revealed about remote learning.
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