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In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Thirty Million Words.

The National Security Administration offered up a second year of GenCyber, a free summer camp aimed at exposing middle and high school students to the technology and ethics behind modern cyber warfare.

In partnership with a local nonprofit and area police, the Denver Public Schools district is among the leading examples of schools shifting their disciplinary focus from punishment to restorative support.

A bipartisan education bill the U.S. Senate just passed leaves too much flexibility for states to decide which schools are struggling and when to intervene, argues Evan Stone, the co-founder of Educators 4 Excellence.

The number of American children living in poverty stood at 22 percent in 2013, a 4-point increase since 2008 and a cause for concern despite some positive findings in areas like high school graduation rates.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Jacqueline R. Stillisano, a director at Texas A&M’s Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture and co-director of its Education Research Center.

A Wisconsin Republican state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require K-12 education to include coursework preparing students to be financially literate by graduation.