For anyone who cares about student literacy, the past few years have given us reason to cheer. While trends in national test scores, young people’s reading habits, and talk of a “learning recession” are clear causes for...
On a mid-June morning in the small city of Norfolk, Nebraska, a group of 2- and 3-year-olds clumsily ran around a playroom wearing identical purple cloth vests. As the toddlers babbled to their teachers, a rectangular...
Walk into any college library and you will likely see students wearing headphones and listening to music. The idea that music can improve learning has been around for decades. The “Mozart Effect,” is the pop psychology...
Upbeat on-hold music blared from Jerrica Mickens’ cellphone for nearly 50 minutes as she searched on her laptop for affordable housing for a parent in Detroit. Mickens was on a three-way call with a mother and a legal...
For years, the conversation around young children and screens has been dominated by a fear of too much time, too little interaction and too many missed opportunities for real learning. In many cases, those concerns are...
Colorado Mesa's Justise Jones competes on a college rodeo team that's mostly women. The school has had trouble recruiting and keeping men on the team.
Eugene Robinson is the inaugural director of Black student success at Chicago Public Schools.
Philadelphia teachers say the district's process for placing staff in open positions this summer has created confusion and frustration.
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero applied for the top job in Miami-Dade County Public Schools but is not among the six semifinalists, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday.
California’s audacious goal of having half of all K-12 students enrolled in bilingual education programs by 2030 has encountered one big stumbling block. The post Short thousands of bilingual teachers, California...
True educational quality reflects a community's collective investment in its children’s futures. Embracing this shift will ensure every child has access to the rich, diverse learning environment they deserve. The post...
Andre D. Spencer, who has led two previous districts over a 15-year span, was selected as the next superintendent of New Jersey's Willingboro Township Public Schools. The post Several districts secure new leaders during...
As educators, we spend a lot of time talking about the things we think are important. Attendance. Graduation rates. Test scores. Yes, those things matter. But before any of them improve, students have to believe that...
The credit ratings agency primarily cited the Ivy League institution’s “already thin operating performance” that could continue for several years.
June brought leadership turnover to several colleges and turmoil to New Mexico Highlands University following the contentious firing of its president.
Princess Moss was elected president of the National Education Association during its annual representative assembly on Sunday. She was previously vice president of the nation’s largest teachers union and a music teacher...
When Joel Francik became principal of Central Elementary School in 2019, all of his prior education experience had been in middle school — first as a teacher, then as an assistant principal.  He wanted the job, he...
Jessica Sandvold teaches marketing at Decatur Central. Her students helped launch the district's logo rebrand.
DPSCD's 2026-27 school year will begin Aug. 24. Pictured, a student puts away her backpack in a locker at Pasteur Elementary School during the first day of school on August 25, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan.
The former University of Alabama leader faced a delayed system-level vote and right-wing pushback over his past support for diversity efforts.
Rayleen Laloi, a student at the Brooklyn Institute for Liberal Arts at the Brooklyn Public Library on June 11, shares her experience about working on an episode on her school's merger for P.S. Weekly.
The "Future Ready SLPS" report outlines an overhaul of the city’s public school system in the face of decades of declining enrollment and ballooning costs of salaries, benefits and transportation along with aging...
Across nine counties in central Indiana, more school board candidates identified as Republicans than Democrats.
Illinois Department of Early Childhood Secretary Teresa Ramos answers a question from an attendee at the Northwestern University Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago's research conference in Chicago on June 25,...
An audience member listens to a closing panel of speakers at Northwestern University's Early Childhood Research Alliance in Chicago's research conference on the university's Chicago campus on June 25, 2026.
Tennessee student reading scores are up in a critical third grade test, but students are losing proficiency as they move through middle school.
From left, election commissioners Laura Kotelman, Marsiel Hernandez and June Brown hear an oral argument from Ed Mullen.
The move comes as more colleges are going back to requiring standardized tests for admissions.
Rayhan Ahmed (far right), a science teacher at Brooklyn's Gotham Professional Arts Academy High School, recently won a FLAG Award for Teaching Excellence.