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...
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 teenagers at the entrepreneurship class at a new Detroit Boys and Girls Club had ideas for a business or product they could create.  Now they had to refine them and think about how to pitch them to investors or...
Peter Rosario has spent years watching his teachers help Spanish-speaking preschoolers sound out English words at La Casa de Don Pedro, a Newark-based nonprofit organization that offers support for immigrant families...
Fourth grade literacy gains earned Mississippi national acclaim. But that achievement tapers off as students advance to higher grades.  Lawmakers are putting millions toward changing that.  Mississippi has...
A heavy, authoritative thud echoed through the Hawai‘i House chamber as Speaker Rilynn Kawaikoʻolilihilihiokalikolehua Perez brought down the gavel. Student delegates settled into their seats, shuffling papers and...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Soon after Patriots defended Charles Town at Fort Moultrie in 1776, the regiment received a flag embroidered with acorns, a battle drum and an early version of the crescent that would eventually adorn...
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.
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.
A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics and public policy. Katie Arnold-Ratliff wrote a cover story for New York Magazine criticizing...
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.
Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Vitti says a school's appearance on a list of small schools with low enrollment and high costs doesn't mean it might close. The district is looking for solutions to boost enrollment at the...
After a power failure knocked out electricity in parts of Lānaʻi High and Elementary School in 2021, the state set up temporary electrical lines to get the lights back on. Five years later, the so-called temporary lines...
The percentage of  3- and 4-year-olds enrolled in school dropped during the most recently available five-year lookback window of federal data, though that picture is likely clouded by COVID-era school...
A sign reads "Attendance Matters" at Samuel Gompers Elementary-Middle School in Detroit. Detroit has seen gains from its efforts to improve attendance, but chronic absenteeism remains a stubborn problem, there and...
Rayhan Ahmed (far right), a science teacher at Brooklyn's Gotham Professional Arts Academy High School, recently won a FLAG Award for Teaching Excellence.
The proposal, which mandates literary works such as Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" alongside passages from the New Testament, has been closely followed by education observers who say it appears to be the first of...
Stephania Zamorano has been an educator in New York City for 15 years. Since 2021, she has worked at Imagine Early Learning Centers, a childcare organization that serves nearly 600 children across 12 sites, soon to be...
PETERSBURG, Va. — For years, the schools here have been stuck in a very bad place. As Petersburg’s once-booming manufacturing base hollowed out, crime increased and residents’ health worsened. Along the way, places for...
DPSCD's Health Hubs opened in 2023 to streamline wraparound services for students and their families. Since then, chronic absenteeism has fallen in the district.
The first step to solving a reading delay is knowing it exists. Decades of research have found that all children learn to read by developing the same core skills. This applies to children with dyslexia, English language...
At a Board of Regents meeting Monday, state education officials announced that high school graduates in New York could soon start receiving a new type of diploma — one that reflects their skills and knowledge,...
It’s the same picture, every year, when my family visits India. My uncle is sitting right in the middle of the gathering, and yet the conversation never touches him. He has cerebral palsy and depends entirely on others...
Adopting the state-approved Bluebonnet Learning curriculum for elementary students will come with a funding boost of more than $3 million for the district, which also approved a $2 billion operating budget on...
The Texas State Board of Education will vote Friday on a set of new social studies standards that have drawn fire and fervor for espousing pro-American views and Christian values.  If approved, the vote would...