We’re rounding up July’s leadership transitions, including two public colleges that faced unexpected hurdles when installing new presidents.
Roughly 2,000 families received offers for a spot in the inaugural year of 2-K, New York City’s new free childcare program for 2-year-olds, officials announced Tuesday. Around 5,700 families applied for the initial...
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While cultural discordance needs careful consideration, it doesn't trump strong strategy, argues an expert on college consolidation.
The American Association of University Professors and four faculty members allege that those restrictions violate free speech rights.
A student studies at the UCLA campus. More students may benefit from college than we think.
A parent drops off a child at the Newark Public Library Van Buren Branch in Newark, N.J. for the Reading Partners program.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani visits a preschool in the Bronx in April. Mamdani's 2-K program sent out offers to roughly 2,000 families Tuesday, after 5,700 applied.
For years, Democratic politicians have treated support for teachers unions as a proxy for supporting public education itself. The logic is simple and politically convenient: Stand with unions, stand with teachers; stand...
This year, Hawkins Mill Elementary is welcoming students displaced by the closure of a neighboring school in the spring.
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s newly released diaries have reignited the fight over whether he bears any responsibility for the disastrous pandemic-era school closures. Fauci’s critics, like Sen. Rand Paul, have seized on diary...
Deputy Chancellor Simone Hawkins, pictured here in February, will leave the Education Department in September as New York City prepares to launch Mayor Zohran Mamdani's free childcare program for 2-year-olds.
Free backpacks are a popular item during back-to-school giveaways taking place in August throughout Detroit.
Iris Taylor, a member of the Detroit Public Schools Community District board and a prominent healthcare leader, died 74. Here, she speaks during the Cody High School graduation in June 2019.
The union representing lunchroom workers in Chicago Public Schools requested fact-finding Thursday, taking a step closer to a strike. Pictured: Lunch workers protest the lack of a contract following a Chicago Board of...
Philadelphia youth say third spaces such as the Field Teen Center at Parkway Central Library provide helpful places to go over the summer.
Plenty of students have math anxiety. It turns out some educators have their own anxiety about teaching the subject, a new study finds. And that appears to affect their students — especially those already struggling in...
Villalobos, who was was unanimously approved, is the county’s current south region superintendent and has served as principal at several high schools. The post Miami-Dade School Board unanimously picks Rafael Villalobos...
The Chicago Board of Education meets Thursday, May 29, 2025.
In a three-hour hearing Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the influential scientist who led the national response to COVID, refused to respond to questions about his role in school closures and the mask and social...
With so many avenues to gamble online, teachers say students are more interested than ever in betting. Educators hope financial literacy courses and other strategies can help show them the risks behind it.
Chicago school board candidate Brenda Lee Anderson, center, records attorney Ed Mullen’s oral argument during a Chicago Board of Elections meeting.
Denver Public Schools has been a target of the Office for Civil Rights under the Trump administration. The latest investigation involves an incident in which a teacher was accused of pressuring students to kiss as part...
Students work on solving math problems during math class, at Girls Athletic Leadership School (GALS) middle school in Denver, Colorado.
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.
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...
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...
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...