The annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on Sept. 11, 2024 in New York City.
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...
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...
Some Philadelphia schools ban cellphones for the entire day. Others allow teens to scroll TikTok at lunch.
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...
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...
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...
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...
The campus of Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021.
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...
The Chicago Board of Education will be fully elected for the first time in several decades this November.
Officials allege the Mabna Institute was behind an effort to steal research from American universities, companies and government agencies.
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.
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,...
Jeremiah Steen was appointed to the DPSCD board on Wednesday. Pictured, Steen answers the board's questions in an interview for the position.
After closing abruptly this year, the Catholic institution is trying to pay off millions of dollars in debt.
The rule would ease the way for new accreditors to form and give agencies significant new duties, including overseeing intellectual diversity policies.
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...
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.
Colorado students take the PSAT and SAT in the spring.
Math scores continued to rise, but progress was uneven in literacy, according to the latest Colorado state test results.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...