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JANUARY 17, 2018

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GETTING AND
KEEPING

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SPECIAL REPORT
James Steinberg for Education Week

1 Unknown Fate for DACA Leaves Dreamers on Edge
1 Cheating Scandal in Atlanta Casts Long Shadow
6 Ed. Dept. Finds Texas Suppressed Spec. Ed.
Enrollment

9 Students Thrive When They See Purpose
In Their Learning
10 DIGITAL DIRECTIONS:
K-12 Districts Advised on Rights in Post-'Net
Neutrality' Era

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

32
COMMENTARY
See this special section on the annual Rick Hess Straight
Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, pages 25-28
and 32.
25 Patrick J. Wolf: Four Sound Practices for Public
Debate

22 What's on the Runway for Trump, Congress on
Education?

25 DATA: Which 2018 RHSU Edu-Scholars have the
greatest social-media influence?

22 Year One: K-12 Presidential Scorecards

26 Pedro A. Noguera: How to Decide When Your
Voice Is Necessary

23 States Slow in Adopting ESSA's Testing Flexibility
24 K-12 Key Topic for State Legislators
24 At Halfway Mark, Congress Faces
Pile of Education Issues

DEPARTMENTS
4 News in Brief
4 Report Roundup
28 Letters
29 TopSchoolJobs Recruitment Marketplace

TINY HOMES AND TEACHER VILLAGES
Are teacher-housing discounts
good policy? 18

Our next issue, a special report titled
"Getting and Keeping Good
Teachers," spotlights recruitment
and retention strategies for hard-tostaff schools and subjects. Topics
include rural schools' hiring
challenges, the use of child-care and
housing benefits, and efforts to
recruit Latino men into teaching.

1 QUALITY COUNTS 2018: Grading the States
See special section pages 1, 14-21

8 How Much Reform Is Too Much?
Teachers Weigh In

WANTED: LATINO MALE TEACHERS
What it takes to put more
Latino men in the classroom 12

GOOD TEACHERS

NATIONAL

7 How Classroom Location Matters
In Teacher Collaboration

Good Teachers

CHILD-CARE PERKS
Can child-care benefits keep
teachers on the job? 6

Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Maricruz Abarca, of
Baltimore, a Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals
recipient who is originally
from Mexico, cries during a
demonstration with other
supporters of the DACA
program outside of the U.S.
Capitol last month. "I'm so
worried about the possible
separation from my
children," says Abarca.

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26 DATA: Percentage of 2018 RHSU Edu-Scholars with
Twitter accounts
26 Robert Kelchen: Some Cautions for Junior
Scholars (and Their Institutions)

32 Frederick M. Hess: When
Public Scholarship Gives Way
to Bombast and Bluster

This special report takes a hard
look at recertification, posing
questions about how it could be
strengthened to support teachers
better. The stories include an
overview of the diverse provider
landscape, perspective pieces by
current and former teachers, and
profiles of states thinking about
how to innovate their licenserenewal systems.
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EXPLAINER
Homeschooling:
Requirements, Research,
and Who Does It
There are nearly 2 million
homeschooled students in
the United States, making
homeschooling a small, but
integral part of the K-12
education ecosystem.
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INTERACTIVE MAP

26 DATA: Where are the Edu-Scholars?
27 Diana Hess: Scholars, Don't
Overstep Your Expertise

Making Teacher
Recertification
Meaningful

Complete 2018
RHSU Edu-Scholar
Public Influence Rankings

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rhsu-rankings-2018

Cyber Charters'
Struggles Continue
Education Week reviewed
hundreds of news stories and
dozens of state audits that
document problems in the sector
that date to the early 2000s.
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