Philadelphia parents are asking the city to help prevent preschool suspensions and exclusion.
Preliminary New York state test results show reading proficiency fell 5 points while math improved. The dramatic declines in reading raised eyebrows among experts.
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...
A parent drops off a child at the Newark Public Library Van Buren Branch in Newark, N.J. for the Reading Partners program.
California schools now have two screening instruments that use playful games and stories to test 4-year-olds’ language skills without making them cry. The California Department of Education this spring approved two...
Dozens of Philadelphia schools don't have adequate air conditioning ahead of the first day of the 2026-27 school year.
This year, Hawkins Mill Elementary is welcoming students displaced by the closure of a neighboring school in the spring.
In school lunchrooms around Lake Tahoe, students line up for a red, hairy fruit called a rambutan. On pozole day, they shout, “We want more!” And when the salad bar runs dry, they ask the staff to refill it—over and...
NYC public schools have long lacked clear guidance on school avoidance. Under a new agreement, the city is mandating liaisons and uniform training to support absent students.
This article was co-published with FastCompany. NEWNAN, Ga. — Arnco-Sargent Elementary sits in a wooded area on a two-lane road about 50 miles south of Atlanta. Across the street is a child care center. A Baptist church...
New data shows not all certificate programs offer students the same wage growth opportunities. Nursing certificate programs are some of the most popular in Colorado.
Free backpacks are a popular item during back-to-school giveaways taking place in August throughout Detroit.
A major and final piece of West Virginia lawmakers’ 2023 hallmark education legislation goes into effect this school year when schools are required to retain third graders whose reading and math abilities aren’t at...
Anthropic recently rolled out its Claude for Teachers tool, making a free version of Claude with advanced technical capacities available to any K-12 U.S. educator who applies to the company using a school email address...
A newly released evaluation of Colorado's state-funded preschool program says providers and advocates are eager for the state to focus on quality.
A bill that would require states to only use the science of reading in classrooms in order to qualify for a multi-million dollar funding grant passed with bipartisan support from a committee of federal lawmakers...
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...
Carolina Sanchez Garcia, a teacher at Rosa Parks Elementary in San Diego, used to wake up at 3 a.m. to leave enough time to drive to work as her children slept in the back seat. The post To recruit teachers, school...
MSCS leaders say they're focusing on boosting middle school math achievement this year after seeing gains in reading.
It is impossible to imagine a future that does not have data science embedded in our daily lives. The field combines statistics, coding, and critical thinking to extract meaning from data, making it a desirable skill...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani visits a childcare center in Brooklyn in November, 2025. Under Mamdani's administration, city-funded early childhood education programs will get more flexibility to choose a curriculum.
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.
Chronic absenteeism is playing a major role in students failing to reach pre-pandemic academic levels, a new report from NWEA shows.  The report, issued last week, shows that the academic progress of students in...
For the second year in a row, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will let schools seek a temporary “accommodation” if they can’t meet new limits on foreign food in school meals. The post Big banana shortage avoided in...
There’s a long-held misconception that students’ opportunities are constrained by the size of their town. In many people’s minds, rural career and technical education and career-connected learning are synonymous with...
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.
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...