Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero listens to students at a school board meeting in 2022. The Miami Herald reported Thursday that Marrero is a candidate for the top job in Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
The fee has caused concern among higher education experts that it would hamper colleges’ ability to recruit foreign scholars and instructors.
Three progressive superintendents defended their policies for parental involvement and transgender inclusion during a congressional hearing Wednesday in which Republican lawmakers called them “pathetic” and said they...
A duplex in Battle Creek is now the rent-free home for two early childhood workers in the city through a new partnership called First Home, First Teacher.
Supporters of Southwest Leadership Academy charter school protest the Philadelphia Board of Education's decision to start the nonrenewal process for the school in 2023. The board later reversed its decision.
A first grader raises her hand at Bates Academy during the first day of school on August 25, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan.
What’s the harm of a little grade inflation? After all, the kids are happy. The parents are proud. And the administrators are satisfied, with more students making progress toward graduation. Of course, if students don’t...
For years, many teachers at Frederick Douglass Elementary School didn’t know the names of all their students.  Those were dark years before principal Carol Leveilee arrived at the Seaford, Delaware school. Kids...
Microschool leaders are predominantly white educators and parents who left traditional public or private schools to build different educational options for kids. But over 40% of those planning to launch new schools in...
Jasmine Coombs, director of equity and inclusion programs at Bard High School Early College in Manhattan.
The hearing gave House Republicans, facing a possible electoral loss in November, a stage for a flashpoint cultural issue popular with conservatives and, they believe, the public at large. San Francisco Unified...
If you’re a parent who has felt, in the last few years, that something has changed in your child’s relationship with learning and school, you are not imagining it.  The Nation’s Report Card...
The agency took aim at the Davis Scale, a metric tracking socioeconomic advantage that has helped the institution maintain diversity in its student body.
Education reEnvisioned BOCES, where Ken Witt is executive director, lost one school district member this month and could lose the other by the end of June.
Chicago Public Schools headquarters. The Chicago Board of Education voted to approve contract renewals after asking to postpone the vote.
The number of remote charter academies operating in North Carolina is expected to nearly double next school year, according to state education officials. Ashley Logue, executive director of the Office of Charter...
Illinois approved a new comprehensive numeracy plan Wednesday aimed at improving students' math skills.
Tucked in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open what appears to be the first free daycare for municipal workers in...
During my first year as a fifth-grade teacher, I taught a student who had moved from the Dominican Republic three weeks before school started. She spoke very little English and I spoke no Spanish, so I started by...
Hillcrest High School student Matthew Canzius, right, stands next to (from right to left) Chayanika Chakravorty, Aden Gurmohamed, and Nickram Dulychand at the Center for Jewish History on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.
Jennifer Chrisler, president of the struggling college, shared the update after previously warning that the institution might have to close earlier than planned.
Big changes are coming for Indiana schools in the November election. Join us for a panel discussion on July 8 to learn more about what it could mean.
Play-based learning focuses on giving students hands-on school experiences. In Illinois kindergarten classrooms, it's a required part of students' learning.
English learners make up 17% of California students, but few are comfortable enough to show up when decisions that affect them are under discussion. Districts should change that.
In the first years after Tulsa Honor Academy opened in 2015, founder Elsie Urueta Pollock visited almost every student’s home herself, promising parents that she would help their children be successful. Like them, she’s...
Chris Nassetta and other Hilton leaders reveal how the new college town-focused brand was born following the 2024 acquisition of Graduate.
Many UC faculty are calling for the system to require the SAT or ACT for STEM applicants, arguing that too many admitted students are severely unprepared for college-level math. Other faculty disagree and say the exams...
An assistant principal at Girls Athletic Leadership School, a Denver charter school where cellphones were already prohibited, takes a phone from a student in September 2025. This fall, all Denver students will have to...
The Trump administration announced an investigation into the Cherry Creek School District Monday, alleging racial discrimination.
I’ve always thought about the future. What would it look like? What fantastical creations existed there that I was incapable of anticipating? And most importantly, what would I be doing? I knew I wanted to be one of the...