Predictable transportation routines can improve students' readiness to participate in classroom learning, particularly for children with special needs. The post Why transportation is such an important student success...
This story was co-published with Mother Jones.  A few years ago, Eric Gil was living at his uncle’s place in Waterbury, Connecticut, where he shared a bedroom with his brother and cousin. With eight people in the...
Students at top-ranked colleges were less likely than others to say campus leaders mostly act in their interests, per a Gallup and Lumina Foundation poll.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew, center, says the union may pull its support for NYC Reads, citing concerns about assessments, interventions, and teacher workload.
The Indianapolis Public Education Corporation approved the salary for executive director Karega Rausch at its August meeting.
Jaleel is attending his first day of classes this month at a middle school opening its doors for the first time that specializes in air traffic control, commercial drones and engineering. His parents decided not to send...
Date & Time: Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 2 p.m. Join a panel of researchers, district leaders, and field experts for a conversation on new research showing that stronger connections with families can improve...
The DPSCD board must fill an open seat before the November election. Pictured, board members meet to interview candidates in July 2025.
Countless times over the last few years, district leaders have reached out to my organization with a problem: They rolled out a new evidence-based curriculum and trained all their teachers, but many didn’t use it...
With enrollment trends declining, and projections expecting that to continue, the Prince William County School Board decided to nix plans for what it hoped would one day become its 14th high school. The post Why is...
Tuition, fees, housing and other costs averaged $34,019 in the 2025-26 academic year, per a new Sallie Mae and Ipsos report.
The Chicago Teachers Union Center last May. The union and Gov. JB Pritzker each hired political firms connected to people convicted of corruption.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood...
As Newark families prepare to head back to class, local groups across the city are hosting school supply giveaways.
Cassidy Brown, known musically as c12, mixes one of his songs at Philadelphia's MilkBoy the Studio, where he is an intern.
Indiana released 2026 scores on the ILEARN test for English and math, as well as results from the IREAD and SAT, on Tuesday.
Third grade students in Warren Township read in summer school to focus on passing the IREAD exam in June 2025.
A version of this analysis originally appeared in the “Aldeman on Education” Substack. According to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, K-12 schools lost 50,000 workers from June to July. The...
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Reading scores sank in New York City last school year, with a nearly 14 percentage point decline among third...
The Marion County Election Board met Monday to vote on challenges to the candidacy of IPS school board District 4 candidates Lindsey Cornett and Chris Bultman.
District officials in the Montezuma-Cortez district will remove Christian faith-based content from elementary reading lessons provided by the Houston school district in Texas.
Student Titan Jones gives a high five to a staff member at James Russell Lowell Montessori School 51 on the first day of school in Indianapolis.
Under the settlement terms, the private college will bar discrimination against Zionist, Jewish and Israeli students and employees.
Black Texas families weigh whether to send their children to schools with more academic resources — but potentially fewer of their values. The post Tough choices face Black parents when schools struggle appeared first...
 For the past several years in Miami public schools, every student — including my own children — could stand in the same cafeteria line, carry the same tray and eat lunch for free. But on July 22, the Miami-Dade...
Top-ranked colleges and the Trump administration are embracing the exams, but that doesn’t mean test-optional policies are falling out of favor everywhere.
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In school lunchrooms around Lake Tahoe, students line up for a red, hairy fruit called a rambutan. On pozole day, they shout, “We want...
Screen time limits for Los Angeles Unified School District’s youngest students begin in August. “My hope and expectation is that most families will see a dramatic reduction in screen time during the school day, but also...
Two candidates for IPS school board have had their party affiliations challenged.
NYC students’ reading proficiency fell 6 percentage points in grades 3-8, with steeper drops in early grades, as officials investigate dramatic swings in test scores.