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Looking for fresh picks to add to your Spanish-language board book collections? These seven titles fit perfectly in little ones’ hands and are just right for lapsits and baby story time.

Native communities are in desperate need of quality child care. And yet, they are the least likely demographic to get it.

By day, Larry Ferlazzo is an English and social science teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif. In his spare time, he has authored 12 books and is the face behind the Education Week blog series Classroom Q& A, as well as some other blogs. In this interview, he is the featured guest, sharing his perspectives on why teachers' voices matter.

Around 400 students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are expected to participate in a reading program, Rising Up, this fall to boost literacy among 3rd to 5th graders who live in non-English speaking households. Coming out of COVID-19 school lockdowns, English-language learners faced serious challenges to recover their reading and writing skills.

The elementary school students in Kendra Hatchett’s summer school class in Compton are used to adults asking them questions. Teachers ask them questions in class and on tests; principals ask them questions in the office and in the hall. But this summer, the tables were turned. Students interviewed teachers and coaches and even the principal.

During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here.

When asked about my career path and trajectory as the only third executive director of local Denver nonprofit, Environmental Learning for Kids (ELK), I would love to weave a tale about an inherent thirst to conserve the environment, or a deeply rooted calling to inspiring young people. But alas, my path began with a free T-shirt.

Fewer first-year and transfer students returned to the University of California this past fall after enrolling the previous year, a trend that system President Michael Drake said he is watching “very carefully” but predicted will rebound.

For David Walker, entering his community garden in East Vancouver is an escape from the worries of day-to-day life. He's been gardening at Cottonwood Community Gardens for 10 years. Walker is one of the many passionate gardeners in Vancouver who utilize community space to relax, grow food and connect with others — some of the myriad benefits of gardening in urban spaces. 

Inside a small room in a house on Kabul's outskirts, about ten teenage girls are defying their Taliban rulers who have banned them from attending secondary school. "Let's learn," one student slowly reads to another as they review English lessons from a textbook. "Learn the words: Yellow, blue, red, green." The girls attend a secret school run by a young woman barely older than her students, 21-year-old Nazanin, whose lavender headscarf matched her nail polish on the day we visited.