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School & District Management
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Principal Who Criticized His State's Return-to-School Mandate Dies From Long COVID
Jimbo Jackson was remembered as a man "who always had time for children."
Student Achievement
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Remembering Renowned Education Researcher Bob Slavin
Slavin, who died suddenly at age 70, was a formidable force in pushing for policies, research, and evidence-based instruction for students.
Teaching Profession
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Karen Lewis, Firebrand Former Chicago Teachers Union President, Dead at 67
Karen Lewis, the firebrand former Chicago Teachers Union president who led a seven-day strike in 2012, has died, the CTU confirmed Monday.
Teaching & Learning
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Writer, Former EdWeek Reporter Passes Away
Nationally know education writer Robert Rothman, an Education Week reporter and editor for six years, died last month at 61.
Education
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In Memory of Michele Molnar, EdWeek Market Brief Writer and Editor
EdWeek Market Brief Associate Editor Michele Molnar, who was instrumental in launching the publication, succumbed to cancer.
School & District Management
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'Bright Star' Principal, 36, Dies From Coronavirus
Dez-Ann Romain, a Brooklyn principal, is believed to be the first full-time, front-line educator to die from COVID-19.
School & District Management
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Gary D. Marx, the longtime director of communications at AASA, the School Superintendents Association, has died. He was 80.
Teaching & Learning
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Pearl Rock Kane, a former elementary school teacher who led the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University for 37 years, died of pancreatic cancer Feb. 26. She was 79. Kane was a board member of Editorial Projects in Education, the parent company that publishes Education Week, from 1982 until 2012. In recent years, she created an online course, "The Science of Learning: What Every Teacher Should Know," which has enrolled more than 50,000 students internationally.
School & District Management
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Harold O. Levy, the first noneducator to lead the nation’s largest school district, has died. He was 65.