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Trump’s Education Department is backing away from addressing civil rights for Black students

Efforts to address deep-rooted inequities for students of color are being cast as discriminatory against white students. The post Trump’s Education Department is backing away from addressing civil rights for Black...

Texas state takeover of local school districts expands, raising concerns

No state has taken over as many local public school districts as Texas. Just since 2020, the Texas Education Agency has installed its own hand-picked leaders in eight districts. The post Texas state takeover of local...

Opinion: The Lasting Appeal of Homeschooling and Why Families Continue Post-Pandemic

When schools abruptly closed their doors at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, millions of students unexpectedly started learning at home, with or without the help of Zoom lessons. Many observers...

Parents’ Consent at the Heart of Ed Tech Lawsuits

The uprising against ed tech received a boost from the federal government last month when the U.S. surgeon general advised schools to “help reduce the role of screens in the lives of our nation’s children.”  ...

‘Don’t budget off your hopes’: UNT president on institutional planning in a shifting world

College leaders must "confront the brutal facts" of their finances if they want to build resilience, warns University of North Texas President Harrison Keller.

Texas Tech instruction rules spurred widespread course changes

Nearly half of polled professors said they changed class materials on their own in response to memos limiting teaching about race, sex and gender.