Yale, Columbia, Brown and a raft of other institutions warned of damages to the national research system from “draconian” research funding cuts.
During Pride month last year, almost 70,000 LGBTQ+ young people sought specialized help from 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline.  That was the last time they were able to do so.  As of today, it’s...
New Media High School freshmen will go to Bard High School Early College while work continues on their permanent home, the former Dayton Street School.
A new legal challenge to Texas’ school funding system renews questions about what methods state leaders should use to ensure students in low-income districts and those attending campuses in more affluent...
In 2020, voters in California’s Alameda County made a remarkable decision. Rather than accept generations of underinvestment in young children, they chose to build something families had never truly had: an early...
Students helped design the A.I.-powered creation as a young female with dark hair and an upbeat personality. Then came the outrage. The post Sally the robot was coming to a New York school. Then the plug was pulled....
Texas may expand use of the Classical Learning Test despite a new report finding less evidence its scores predict college success than the SAT or ACT. The post Universities can use conservative-favored entrance exam as...
OKLAHOMA CITY — State leaders say they’re still pursuing solutions to reverse a yearslong decline in traditionally trained teachers entering the classroom, all while emergency certified educators continue to fill...
A few years ago, education experts noticed that scores were climbing upwards on a number of Advanced Placement tests. The increases, measured on some of the program’s most popular assessments, were as significant as...
In court documents, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and others shared which words they used to target grants.
We’re rounding up recent stories, from civil rights groups slamming a regulatory change to a ruling against the administration’s approach to grant cuts.
Head Start, the federal program providing free early education for low-income children, has benefited from strong bipartisan support since its 1965 inception, withstanding funding cuts and political turbulence across 11...
Five years ago, diesel costs averaged $2.68 a gallon. This spring, that more than doubled to over $5.50. That’s not just a headline; it’s a real problem for anyone operating on a tight budget. But for school...
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. When students return to school this fall in the Salamanca City Central...
Mary Derfel, assistant director of early literacy at North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s Office of Early Learning, recently heard Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen describe the dream that shaped his...
Civil rights advocates say students of color will be harmed by the removal of the tool used to investigate racial discrimination.
More than two dozen state education employees and lawyers knew that Riverstone Academy planned to use religious curriculum before it opened in 2025.
The Ivy League institution had fought the demand in court, citing workers’ privacy and the extensive information it had already turned over to the agency.
Philadelphia's Universal Audenried Charter High School is supposed to serve students from the surrounding Grays Ferry neighborhood. But only 20% of its students come from within its catchment.
By some metrics, things are looking up for the Providence Public School District (PPSD). Students are coming to class more often. Their standardized test scores are rising. And more of them are graduating high school....
BOSTON — Tatiyana Reaves got into trouble recently for writing a one-syllable word — and not the one you’d think. Taking a computer class at her Fayetteville, N.C., high school, she handed in a paper with the offending...
For as long as anyone remembers, no childcare center on Kauaʻi has had a single opening for an infant or toddler. Not one. On this tropical island lush with vegetation, the childcare landscape is desolate. Kauaʻi is the...
The U.S. Department of Justice found the district routinely violated its own policies and Missouri law when it relied on seclusion and restraint as a regular practice, rather than a final resort. The post DOJ probe...
Conversations about AI in education often start with the right question: Is there evidence of the effects of this technology? The post AI is rapidly changing education and research needs to keep up appeared first on...
This year, my son’s school sent out a book for the entire district to read, “The One and Only Ivan,” about a gorilla who lives in a cage in a mall on the side of a highway. While the book was deeply depressing, what was...
A student raises his hand in a classroom at Providence Cristo Rey High School in May 2019. Cristo Rey is one of several schools in the Indianapolis area that accepts Indiana Choice Scholarships.
States are in a tough bind as they contemplate how to address childcare needs. The extra federal money from the pandemic era is gone just as they are trying to swallow higher spending and cost shifts mandated by the One...
Better financial communication can bolster transparency, experts said at the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ conference.
Voters cast their ballots in 2024 in Chicago. Hilario Dominguez, a candidate for Chicago school board president, has been accused of breaking campaign finance rules.