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Bekah McNeel

Bekah McNeel is a correspondent at 麻豆精品, covering the impact of the pandemic on America's education system.

麻豆精品: How Rapper Darryl 鈥淒MC鈥� McDaniels Is Helping Kids Grow By Embracing Their Emotions

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Uvalde Hero: Amid the Chaos at Robb Elementary, the Bus Driver Who Saved Lives

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For A Small Rural Texas Town, the Solution to a Teacher Shortage Is a Motel

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Trauma Counselors Across Texas Travel to Uvalde

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Amid Spike in Teen Drinking During Pandemic, Schools Turn to Alateen For Help

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Remembering How to Be Friends: Amid COVID Isolation, One School Is Using Talking Circles to Help Kids Reconnect

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Uvalde’s Robb Elementary: Before Tragedy, a Legacy in Advancing Equal Education

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A Reporter鈥檚 Burden and a Parent鈥檚 Anxiety: The Grief of Uvalde

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A Cry for Help from Teen Boys in Austin is Answered

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The Band Teacher Who Kept His School Community Connected Through COVID鈥檚 Chaos

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San Antonio鈥檚 New Superintendent Leads With Empathy

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Texas Doubles Down on School Reform: Key District Taps NYC, LA Vet as New Chief

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Multiple Skills Needed to Close Pandemic Gaps

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Texas Teens Say Book Bans Are Pointless

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What鈥檚 Next for San Antonio ISD?

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Texas Science Museums Create COVID-safe STEM Experiences

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Houston Space Programs Keeping STEM Dreams Alive

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Second Graders鈥� Art Work Illuminates Their Biggest Pandemic Challenges

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Mental Health Hubs Take on Second Pandemic

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Educators Prepare for 鈥淪econd Pandemic鈥� with Mental Health First Aid

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For Maryland鈥檚 New Schools Chief Choudhury, State Anti-Poverty 鈥楤lueprint鈥� Draws on Deep Expertise Identifying, Aiding Low-Income Students in Texas

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Latest Front in the Reading Wars Plays Out During Pandemic in Texas

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San Antonio Ed. Innovator Mohammed Choudhury Named Maryland Schools Supe

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Texas to Pay Teachers $100,000 to Fight COVID Learning Loss in Hard Hit Schools

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Reinventing School Discipline in Texas: Dallas to End Most Student Suspensions

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Texas Mom Mobilizes on Masks

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One Texas Town, Two School Districts, Clashing Mask Policies: How Science and Politics Collided in New Braunfels鈥� Classrooms

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Texas Teachers Go Door to Door as Kids Disappear From Remote Classes

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200 Schools, Universal Weekly COVID Screening: How ‘Assurance Testing’ Has Kept Thousands of Texas Students in Classrooms

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How Texas Teachers Are Prioritizing Basic Skills as Instruction Time Gets Crunched During the Pandemic

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One Year Ago, 90% of San Antonio鈥檚 4-Year-Olds Were Enrolled in School: Now, an Ambitious Texas Early Ed Program is Crumbling Under the Weight of the Pandemic

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Teaching the ‘Roomers’ and the ‘Zoomers:’ No Small Task for Elementary School Teachers

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Hunger Pains: Keeping Kids Fed During the Pandemic Stretches the Limits of Bureaucracy

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To Bring Back Struggling Students, Districts Campaign to Convince Parents Schools are Safe

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PreK 4 SA, San Antonio鈥檚 Popular City-Run Pre-K Program, Wins Another 8 Years

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Any Which Way You Fund It, Pre-K Scores Four Big Wins For 4-Year-Olds Across U.S.

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Educators Wanted Vulnerable Students To Return First for In-Person Learning, But a Racial Divide Spoiled Their Plans

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To Fight COVID-19, Some San Antonio Schools Are Relying On Private Funds to Step Up Contact Tracing and Assurance Testing

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San Antonio Teen Leads Campaign for More Time Off to Vote Safely During Pandemic

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The Kids Are All Right at Home: Texas, North Carolina, Nebraska Seeing Signs of a Pandemic Homeschooling Boom

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Helping Students With Remote Learning 鈥� By Also Aiding Their Parents With Wraparound Services: How One Texas Community Center Is Helping Families Facing Impossible Choices

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A Tiny School in Texas With a Cautionary COVID-19 Tale: Teachers, Epidemiologists Say San Antonio Campuses Need More Aggressive Plan to Prevent Virus Outbreaks

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From I.T. Guy to MVP: The Pandemic Thrusts San Antonio ISD鈥檚 Ken Thompson Into the Center of the Action

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Without a Green Light From Texas State Officials, Superintendents Move Ahead to Safely Open Schools for Kids Who Need Them Most

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Drive-Thru Meet-the-Teacher, Netflix Intermissions and Lots of Troubleshooting Emails: What the First Day of (Remote) School Looked Like in One Texas District

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Texas School Advocates Launch Campaign Urging Parents to Keep Kids in Public School, Legislators to Protect Funding During the Pandemic

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These Three Principals Are Opening New Schools This Fall. If That Sounds Challenging, You鈥檙e Right

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The Pandemic Is Breaking the Bonds Between Texas Families and Their Beloved Public Schools: Why Some Are Stepping Off the Reopening Roller Coaster and Unenrolling

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Tiny Cities Run by Children Inside Texas Schools Are Teaching Social-Emotional and Project-Based Learning 鈥� Along With How to Pay Your Taxes

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Immigrant Educators Helping Immigrant Students Through Coronavirus: Maria Rocha, One of 2,000 Texas Teachers Covered by DACA, Is Turning Her Anxiety Into Advocacy

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San Antonio Superintendents Had a Plan to Safely Open Schools to Kids Who Needed Them Most. The Governor Had Other Ideas

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Lessons From a Global Reckoning: With Coronavirus and a Racial Justice Movement Raging in Texas, Educators Say State’s Curriculum Needs Overhaul

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Closing San Antonio鈥檚 Digital Divide: In the City鈥檚 Poorest and Most Segregated Neighborhoods, Public School Students to Get In-Home Internet

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For the Corona Family, Normal Life Faded Away as COVID-19 Wiped Out Jobs, School and Other Daily Routines They Relied On

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Texas Districts Were Rolling Out Big Pre-K Expansion Plans When COVID-19 Hit. Will That Momentum Be Enough to Save Them?

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To Reconnect Black Kids and Teens to the Great Outdoors, San Antonio鈥檚 Alex Bailey Is Teaching Skills 鈥� and Confronting Structural Racism

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Texas鈥檚 Missing Students: Weeks After Closures, Schools in San Antonio Still Couldn鈥檛 Locate Thousands of Kids. How One Band Director Finally Tracked Down His Musicians

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College Counseling in the Time of Coronavirus: With Less Pomp and Uncertain Circumstances, San Antonio Seniors Cling to Elusive College Dreams

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鈥楾his Is a Revolution鈥�: Student Activists Across the Country Take Their Place 鈥� on the Front Lines and Behind the Scenes 鈥� in Historic Protests

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Texas Teacher Grapples With Family鈥檚 COVID-19 Illness and Continuing Students鈥� Education; 鈥楯ust Trying to Do the Most We Can鈥�

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In Texas, School Bus Driver and 鈥楧addy鈥檚 Girl鈥� Grieves Father鈥檚 Death, Finds Solace Serving Her Students Through Crisis

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When COVID-19 and Economic Fallout Put Millions of Kids in Unsafe Places, Communities in Schools Went In After Them

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Superintendent of San Antonio鈥檚 Largest, Most Diverse District Weighs Reopening Schools First for Students Who Need Them Most

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Oral History 鈥� 5 School Leaders, 4 Weeks & the Biggest Education Crisis of Their Careers

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From Communities in Schools Alumnus to Its New CEO, Rey Salda帽a Has a Great Backstory 鈥� but That Shouldn鈥檛 Mean Other Struggling Students Have To

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Latino Superintendents: 鈥楪oing Back to Normal鈥� Not Their Goal After Coronavirus Crisis

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Being Kind Online Takes On New Urgency as Socially Isolated Kids and Teens Find It鈥檚 Their Only Destination

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74 Interview: NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray on Spreading Social-Emotional Learning to the Nation鈥檚 Mayors and What Being Bullied in School Made Her Realize

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Educators Using 2019 Diversity Report to Show Districts How They Can Better Support Teachers of Color

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The Special Relationship: Parents and Teachers Are Critical Partners in the Work of Social-Emotional Learning

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How to Avoid the Ghost of the Common Core in Social-Emotional Learning鈥檚 Rollout? Emphasize Local Control and Community Connection, Experts Say

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74 Interview: CASEL President on the Importance of Maintaining Quality in Social-Emotional Learning, Paying Attention to the Adults and Work as the Next SEL Frontier

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All In on School Climate: New Searchable Database Lets Nevada Parents and Teachers Compare School Culture & Students鈥� SEL Skills

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John King Talks Teacher Diversity, Student Engagement, Budgeting, School Autonomy 鈥� and 鈥楩auxtonomy鈥� 鈥� at Texas Education Reform Summit

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The Mandatory-Expulsion Maze: Giving a Friend an Adderall Derailed an Honor Student鈥檚 Academic Career. He鈥檚 Not the Only One

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More Student Funding, Full-Day Pre-K, Teacher Raises & a Longer School Year 鈥� Inside Texas鈥檚 $11.6 Billion School Finance Reform Law

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4.5 Million Young People Nationwide Are聽Not Working or in School. How聽Cities Are Working to Get Them Back on Track 鈥� &聽Avoid the School-to-Prison Pipeline

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鈥楰ids Are Being Arrested, but They Don鈥檛 Ask, 鈥淎re You OK?鈥濃��: San Antonio Students Advocate for Their Own Mental Health, but the Odds Are Against Them

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Expanding School Quality & Equity in Milwaukee: Aiming to Address City鈥檚 Waitlists, New Education Group Looks to Boost Number of Seats 鈥� With a Focus on Who Will Be Sitting in Them

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As It Closes In on 20 Years, IDEA Public Schools, Texas鈥檚 Homegrown Charter Network, Is Big, Bold and Sticking to the Basics

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Texas鈥檚 鈥榃hole Student Agenda鈥�: How a Former Teacher Is Using His Legislative Seat to Push 24 New Bills Supporting Sex Ed, Mental Health, Restorative Justice & More

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With the Governor Issuing Orders and State Lawmakers Filing Bills, Ed Reform Is Firmly on the Florida Legislature鈥檚 2019 Agenda

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Schools in Impoverished, Isolated Brownsville, Texas, Are Thriving: Here鈥檚 Why

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Atlanta Poised to Move Beyond Turnaround Effort, Adopt Improvement Model for All District Schools

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Dallas Hits on Successful School Turnaround Model With ACE, but It Comes at a Steep Price. Could a Wider Expansion Across Texas Now Be Its Best Bet to Survive?

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How Texas Is 鈥楽hifting the Power鈥� to Give Some Schools Greater Autonomy, Leadership & Innovation

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The First Word My 4-Year-Old Learned This Summer Was 鈥楲ynching鈥�: Why I Thought It Was Important to Take My Preschooler to Montgomery

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4 KIPP Texas Regional Networks Announce Merger Into Single Statewide Nonprofit to Leverage Growth, Share Expertise

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Walton Family Foundation Unveils New $100M Effort to Support School Diversity, Inclusion, and Innovation

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As Restorative Justice Debate Rolls On, One Texas School District Sees Value in Building Relationships, Rewarding Positive Behavior

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