Class Of 2025: Follow Students From 1St Grade To Graduation
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‘Class Of 2025′ episode 5: Boys ‘Fall Apart’ in middle school
When it comes to middle school, male students tend to have a harder time than female students. Why?

‘Everything in this world just takes longer’ and other distance learning challenges, through the eyes of a principal
The last year hasn’t been easy for anyone - and that certainly includes people charged with running public schools.

‘Class Of 2025’ episode 4: Lessons from The Plague — new teachers in 2020
The latest episode of "Class Of 2025" is all about the teachers.

‘Class of 2025’ episode 3: The year that screen time was all the time
Now more than ever, staying connected to friends means staying online.

‘Class Of 2025’ Episode 2: When school and home collide — COVID-19 continued
The newest season of the ‘Class Of 2025’ podcast takes you to middle school.

‘Class Of 2025,’ Episode 1: The Class Of 2025 and COVID-19
The first episode of the newest season of 'Class Of 2025' starts in spring 2020 - when COVID-19 shut down school buildings.

Listen now: OPB’s ‘Class Of 2025’ podcast second season now available
OPB's "Class Of 2025" project is following 27 students through school. They're now in middle school — in the middle of a pandemic.

Class Of 2025: Meeting the challenge of childhood trauma with ‘extra love’
One of the biggest barriers for kids on their journeys through school involves problems outside of school; like childhood trauma.

Is your child’s brain a muscle or a machine?
Is your mind more like a muscle that you can build? Or a machine that can only do certain things well? A new focus on mindsets is changing classrooms.
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‘I already learned this’: The challenge of teaching TAG students
How should schools teach kids who are way ahead of the pack, like Class of 2025 students Anna and Johnathan?