Omläggningen från smutsigt kol till gas har de senaste veckorna tvingat frusna skolelever i norra Kina att ha lektioner utomhus där de åtminstone värmts av solen.
Without a federal check, education policy tends to reflect politics more than an effort to deliver quality education. It's time to affirm the right to learn in our country's most important document.
Buying education technology should be as easy as purchasing a car, but there are few comparison resources available to districts, writes Katrina Stevens, former deputy director of the Office of Educational Technology at the US Department of Education. In this commentary, she outlines edtech purchase challenges as well as some emerging solutions.