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Leadership
NYC teachers: How are you teaching about 9/11 on its 25th anniversary?

The annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on Sept. 11, 2024 in New York City.

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School Safety
Higher Grades and Belonging: Trans Students Thrive When Supported by Teachers

Supportive teachers can make a world of difference for transgender students, influencing their sense of safety and academic engagement — often in the face of discrimination and bullying — according to new research from...

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Technology & AI
NYC Mayor Sues City Council Over Law Giving $10,000 Bonuses to Paraprofessionals

Mayor Zohran Mamdani sued the New York City Council on Wednesday, hours after a bill giving classroom paraprofessionals $10,000 in bonus pay became law.  The lawsuit claims that the council’s approval of bonuses...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Pennsylvania still hasn’t passed a school cellphone ban. Some Philly principals aren’t waiting.

Some Philadelphia schools ban cellphones for the entire day. Others allow teens to scroll TikTok at lunch.

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Budget & Finance
Opinion: Head Start Changed My Life. The Proposed Reforms Would Gut the Program

I am a product of Head Start. Before I understood federal funding, program performance standards or the complicated systems that make Head Start possible, I understood what it meant to be a Head Start child. Years...

District Admin
Technology & AI
Utah’s largest school district just welcomed students back for the final time. Here’s how it will soon split into 3.

By next fall, the Alpine School District—the state’s largest district—will split into three: the newly named Lake Mountain, Aspen Peaks and Timpanogos school districts. The post Utah’s largest school district just...

District Admin
Leadership
Florida school board at the center of culture wars loses conservative majority

Democrats say the flip in Sarasota County indicates voters want education to move on from political fights over social issues, while conservatives point to their wins. The post Florida school board at the center of...

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Leadership
Opinion: Dismantling the Dyslexia Industrial Complex

The rapid rise of dyslexia in public discourse reflects a long-overdue shift in education. For decades, students with persistent reading difficulties were misunderstood, mislabeled or overlooked entirely. Increased...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
Work first, college degree later: Indiana wants students to consider a new postsecondary model

The campus of Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021.

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Technology & AI
Student Journalists: AI Is Changing Our Work — And Not For the Better

In the nearly four years since generative artificial intelligence began colonizing the academic lives of teens, it has changed the experience of school for millions of young people. Perhaps no group has watched their...

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Chicago Board of Education 101: Know the basics of the soon-to-be elected board guiding Chicago Public Schools

The Chicago Board of Education will be fully elected for the first time in several decades this November.

Education Dive
Technology & AI
DOJ charges 17 in Iran-backed hacking campaign against US colleges, others

Officials allege the Mabna Institute was behind an effort to steal research from American universities, companies and government agencies.

EdSource
Technology & AI
A family separation could not stop three California siblings from getting UC diplomas

These siblings’ college dreams were nearly derailed by President Trump’s “public charge” immigration policy. But they made it to graduation, all at the same time.

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Leadership
Parents’ Night Out: Fun for Kids. Freedom for Parents

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Leadership
How much do students trust higher ed leaders?

BOULDER, CO - AUGUST 18: A group of incoming freshmen play spike ball on campus after moving into dormitories at University of Colorado Boulder on August 18, 2020 in Boulder, Colorado. Due to the coronavirus pandemic,...

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Leadership
Detroit school board appoints 25-year-old youth advocate as its newest member

Jeremiah Steen was appointed to the DPSCD board on Wednesday. Pictured, Steen answers the board's questions in an interview for the position.

Budget & Finance
Bankrupt Anna Maria College to sell nursing program for $1.1M

After closing abruptly this year, the Catholic institution is trying to pay off millions of dollars in debt.

Education Dive
Policy & Legislation
Education Department proposes accreditation overhaul

The rule would ease the way for new accreditors to form and give agencies significant new duties, including overseeing intellectual diversity policies.

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Budget & Finance
Head Start Providers Describe a System in Turmoil Amid Federal Cutbacks

This March, Mary Ellen Lykins, a director of 10 Head Start centers serving around 200 kids in northwest Washington, submitted a seemingly simple application to the federal government: She wanted to convert one of her...

Chalkbeat
Technology & AI
NYC paraprofessionals’ $10,000 pay bump becomes law as City Hall vows a legal challenge

New York City teachers union members rally for paraprofessional raises in January, 2025. A bill that would grant $10,000 one-time pay bumps became law on Wednesday.

Chalkbeat
Leadership
Colorado’s PSAT and SAT 2026 scores: How did your school or district perform?

Colorado students take the PSAT and SAT in the spring.

Chalkbeat
Policy & Legislation
Colorado’s 2026 CMAS scores: See how your school and district did

Math scores continued to rise, but progress was uneven in literacy, according to the latest Colorado state test results.

EdSource
Technology & AI
Chino Valley Unified faces new complaint over alleged book bans, LGBTQ+ outing policy

The Chino Valley Unified School District is facing new legal scrutiny over its alleged school library book bans and an effort to require parental notification concerning student gender identity, the Los Angeles Times...

EdSource
School Safety
Wheatland Union High reopened after second threat in 2 days

Authorities have given the all clear, and the Wheatland Union High School campus has been reopened following the second threat to campus safety in two days early Wednesday morning, The Sacramento Bee reported. A similar...

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Policy & Legislation
FCC Review Could End School Internet Program. Advocates Plan ‘Very Loud’ Protest

As superintendent of Desert Sands Unified in California’s Coachella Valley, Kelly May-Vollmer has a hard time naming a system that’s not somehow connected to the district’s broadband network. Parents can check a school...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: Portrait of a Graduate Initiatives Can Fail, but New York’s Doesn’t Have To

New York State is betting big on Portrait of a Graduate. It could transform how schools think about student success — or become one of the most well-intentioned failures in recent education policy. Last summer, the...

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Technology & AI
Opinion: When AI Makes Young People Think for Themselves, Real Learning Happens

This summer, I ran a one-week artificial intelligence pilot at the Chicago headquarters of Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America, a nonprofit dedicated to helping refugees succeed in school. Most of the students...

District Admin
Technology & AI
Which AI chatbot did this school use to make such a ridiculous map?

A school in Kentucky sent students home with a bound agenda that included absurd errors clearly made by AI. The periodic table was nonsense. The map of the U.S. lists the state of Illinois as “Vitoiis,” and Kentucky is...

District Admin
Policy & Legislation
15 states have laws that allow corporal punishment in schools. Here’s where, and why

There is broad consensus among psychologists that corporal punishment can be harmful to children, but the U.S. has no federal laws banning it in public schools. Instead, it's up to states and local districts to...

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Technology & AI
Put the Credit Cards Away. Workforce Pell Will Help Pay for Career Training

Indiana has more than 500 job openings for medical assistants, but training for the job isn’t cheap — between $1,500 and $4,000 at lower-cost schools, such as Indiana’s Ivy Tech Community College. The reduced $1,500...