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Asher Lehrer-Small

Staff Reporter

Asher Lehrer-Small is a Staff Reporter at The 74. Prior to covering national news, he studied education policy at Brown University, where he completed and published a thesis on the effectiveness and implementation of personalized learning in Vermont.

He’s previously worked as a summer classroom instructor, most recently working with 8th-grade math students in Providence, Rhode Island. His published portfolio includes articles on personalized learning and coverage of a new model of research-practice partnerships between universities and local districts for such outlets as Indy Magazine, the Brown Political Review and the Brown Daily Herald.

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Asher Lehrer-Small

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Articles by Asher Lehrer-Small

This Rural Illinois District Curbed Learning Loss With Help From a Burmese Church

They Stood Up to NYC Schools For Their Disabled Child. Then CPS Arrived

Detroit Schools Got $1.3 Billion in COVID Relief. Why It Might Not Be Enough

Idaho’s 18-Year-Old School Board Member on Youth Voice And Right-Wing Extremism

The Conservative Scholar Who Convinced GOP Lawmakers Civics Conceals CRT

How Texas Lawmakers Gutted Civics

District Attorney Launches Broad Criminal Probe into Stockton School Spending

Often Unseen, Bus Drivers Can Help Schools Find And Support Homeless Students

Hochul’s Proposal for Small-Group Tutoring Blocked by NY State Legislature

50 Extra School Days: This District Uplifts English Learners With COVID Aid

Maryland Schools to Receive Added $600M as Blueprint Funds Flow to Districts

Q&A: Education Expert on Tutoring, Learning Recovery & Schools’ Staffing Woes

Schools Still Pouring Money Into Reading Materials That Teach Kids to Guess

NYC Parents Rally Against Mandated Reporting Policies for Educators

Fixing a System that Set Up Youth to Fail: Rhode Island Overhauls High School

Conservatives’ Civil Rights Complaints Target Meet-Ups for Students of Color

Homelessness Threatens Rural Students Amid Affordable Housing Crunch

Students Got $10K to Upgrade Their HS. It Drove a Citywide ‘Wave of Democracy’

After 3 Weeks and a Flood of Details, Va. School Shooting Grows More Unthinkable

New National Study: 1 in 4 Teachers Changing Lesson Plans Due to Anti-CRT Laws

A New Playbook to Recruit Tutors: Tap Teachers in Training

Inside the Incubator Using Apprenticeships to Redesign Teacher Preparation

Maryland to Scale Youth Apprenticeship Opportunities with $12M Investment

More Schools Have Closed in Kentucky This Year Than Rest of U.S. Combined. Why?

Meet Skye, the 12-Year-Old Reporter Covering Georgia’s Runoff Election

Maryland’s Humble Mission: Build the Nation’s Best, Most Equitable School System

Historic Rise in Child Bereavement as COVID, Drugs and Guns Claim Parents’ Lives

Federal Policy Protecting Native Youth From Unjust Family Separation is on Trial

Virtual School Enrollment Kept Climbing Even As COVID Receded, New Data Reveal

Second-Highest Youth Midterm Voter Turnout in 3 Decades, Early Estimates Show

Gov. Abbott Re-Elected in Texas, Beating O’Rourke in Race Centering on Guns, Uvalde

Data: Rural Schools Fared Better in Math, Worse in Reading Than Urban Districts

MD is Not VA: Education Issues Playing Out Differently in Governor’s Race

Strong Link in Big City Districts’ 4th-Grade Math Scores to School Closures

ACT Scores Fall to Lowest Level In 30 Years

Rural Teacher Prep Program Delivers ‘Job-Embedded’ Degrees — For $75 a Month

Ending ‘Child Poverty Surveillance’: NYU Professor On Schools & Child Welfare

Exclusive Data: Educators’ ‘Careless’ Child Abuse Reports Devastate Thousands of NYC Families

Come to Class, Win a Toyota: Districts Launch Campaigns to Boost Attendance

Beyond It’s Corn: ‘Recess Therapy’ Creator on the Secret of Following Kids’ Joy

Not It’s Corn-y, Guaranteed: ‘Recess Therapy’ Host Shares His Top 5 Other Clips

‘Inundated With Applications’: No Teacher Shortage at Virtual Schools

Report: More States Are Giving Students a Say in Education Policy

The ACLU’S Fight Against Classroom Censorship, State By State

School Budgets Soar 16% Over 2 Years, But Experts Warn of ‘Bloodletting’ to Come

Former COVID Data Whistleblower, Now Congressional Candidate With Bold K-12 Plan

‘Too Good to Be True’: NH Gives Students $1,000 for Tutoring — Yet Sign-Ups Lag

‘Untapped Talent’: TA to BA Teacher Prep Program Scales Six-Fold Amid Shortages

‘Treat This As You Would Any Illness’: Schools Across U.S. Downgrade COVID Rules

New Data: Was 2022’s Summer Learning ‘Explosion’ Enough To Reverse COVID Losses?

ACLU-Backed Lawsuit Charges Florida’s ‘Stop W.O.K.E.’ Law Is Unconstitutional

Gifted Summer Programs Skew White & Wealthy. Not Baltimore’s — And It’s Free

Want To Become a Teacher? You Could Land a $25K Signing Bonus

How Norway Cut Student Absences By 25% — And Why The Policy Is No Silver Bullet

Democracy Prep Founder Seth Andrew Sentenced to a Year in Prison For Wire Fraud

‘Low-Hanging Fruit’: Thousands of Same-Race Schools Within Miles of Each Other

74 Interview: Seeing the Nuances Behind the Chronic Absenteeism Crisis

Slave Money Paved the Streets. Now This Posh RI City Strives to Teach Its Past

Mental Health, Teacher Shortages, Uvalde: Students Talk 2022’s Key School Issues

Awakened By SCOTUS Ruling, Young People Join Push For Reproductive Rights

FDA Authorizes Moderna and Pfizer Vaccines for Kids as Young as 6 Months

Ohio Teachers May Soon Carry Guns. Among Experts’ Safety Concerns: Racial Bias

COVID Vaccinations for Toddlers to Start After Juneteenth, White House Predicts

‘It Doesn’t Feel Safe Going to School’: Students Reflect After Texas Shooting

Does Your School Have a ‘Slander’ Account?

Three Pfizer Shots 80% Effective Against Omicron in Toddlers, Trial Data Show

Districts Recommend Masks — But Don’t Require Them — as COVID Counts Rise

Federal Probe into Native Boarding School Deaths Likely a Severe Undercount

74 Interview: 3 Generations, One Navajo Family’s Indian Boarding School Legacy

Nonprofit Builds Community While Helping First-Gen Students Reach College

SCOTUS ‘Pissed Off the Wrong Generation,’ Gen Z Activists Say

Staffing Challenges Could Await New $100M Success Academy School in the Bronx

Half of States Set to Ban Abortion Have No Sex Ed Requirements

Outlawing School Segregation Spurred Gains for CA Chicano Students, Study Finds

Congress Wants FDA to Explain Reported Delay in Moderna Toddler Vaccine Review

The Children Left Behind By 1 Million U.S. COVID Deaths

Bloomberg’s $50M Plan to Give NYC Charter Students a ‘Summer Boost’