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The Trump administration has sharply cut back federal data collection on US education, curbing the government's ability to track how American students are performing in areas such as math and reading. The report highlights how the loss of long-running testing and survey data leaves policymakers, researchers and the public without reliable national measures of student achievement, at a time when concerns about falling test scores are already widespread.
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A new exhibition in Tennessee examines the history of Black education and the Rosenwald Schools, the early 20th-century schools built across the segregated South with funding from philanthropist Julius Rosenwald in partnership with Black communities. The display highlights the role these institutions played in expanding educational opportunity for African American students in the state.