Tired of compliance-driven workshops, one teacher took to TikTok to turn literacy research into actionable classroom strategies.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Nikole Hannah-Jones’ essay “devastating” and promised a plan, but he declined to commit to specific integration policies.
My research team from the Understanding America Study at the University of Southern California recently asked parents of school-aged children to upload a snapshot of their kids’ school attendance record from last year...
Improving student achievement is notoriously difficult. Do schools need more money? Better teachers? More standardized testing? Less? The post 30 ideas for fixing U.S. Schools, ranked by experts appeared first on...
Missouri has spent the last several years overhauling its approach to teaching reading. State leaders have invested millions in teacher training, evidence-based instruction, literacy screening and interventions for...
For years, researchers and education pundits have tried to tell parents that their children are not performing as well as they might think in school. The message might finally be seeping in. Since 2022, the percentage...
This year is DPSCD's last to spend its $94.4 million literacy lawsuit settlement. The district analyzed what did and didn't work during the first two years of initiatives the settlement paid for.
The most notable thing about Melissa’s son’s 6th birthday should have been the vacation the family took. Instead, it was the letter waiting for them when they returned home. Her child was assigned to the disciplinary...
Cassie Reed and her two young children had just moved from a domestic violence shelter into a third-floor apartment in Spokane, Washington, when she spotted a soon-to-open Head Start preschool on the building’s ground...
High school students chant and march through downtown Denver to protest the Trump administration’s deportation efforts and treatment of immigrants, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. ICE activity around campuses this school...
St. Louis Public Schools was one of America’s largest school systems in the late-1960s, educating 115,000 students at its peak. But at the beginning of the 2026–27 academic year, after decades of erosion and poor...
The federal watchdog recommends better alignment of counts for enrolled and chronically absent students.
When the state of New Mexico announced it would provide no-cost universal child care last September, Yaneidy Gomez, a nurse, started thinking about starting her own program. New Mexico made it easy: She applied for a...
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Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks onstage during the 2026 National Association Of Black Journalists Convention in Atlanta.
When children forget their lunch, can’t solve a math problem or don’t know how to get somewhere, the instinct for parents can be to step in immediately. But sometimes, the problem is an opportunity. Developmental...
The Detroit Public Schools Community District received $94.4 million to settle a right to-read literacy lawsuit. The money will run out by the end of this school year.
Evaluations should be a routine part of implementing major new education programs to ensure Californians are reaping the full expected benefits.
The Justice Department is seeking to end long-standing consent decrees dating back decades that sought to curb unlawful racial segregation that was prevalent during the Jim Crow era. The post DOJ says it’s moving to end...
This fall, as students at the private, AI-focused Alpha School begin their academic year, many are being tested in an unusual way: they’re watching a video of their parents “talking about our worst qualities,” according...
Using these relationships strategically can expand students' opportunities, according to Equal Opportunity Schools and the Center for Trust and Transformation.
With her senior year of college now underway, Mitzie Westgate has begun planning what she’ll do after graduation next spring. An exercise science major, she hopes to go straight to graduate school and pursue a doctorate...
Superintendent Roger León said Thursday families could expect to see state test scores around Oct. 7 and paper copies of the results would be sent around Oct. 9.
Pre-K students at Johnson Elementary School in North Lawndale make trees using popsicle sticks and leaves as part of a STEAM lesson. Johnson's enrollment remained stable this fall, even as Chicago Public Schools overall...
Precious Eshiet, a senior at Germantown Friends High School, is the winner of Chalkbeat Philadelphia's first-ever back-to-school rap contest.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon visited the Cleveland Browns’ training facility earlier this month to join the NFL team in recognizing students with excellent attendance. She used the event to talk about one of the...
As another school year gets underway, several states are considering whether to give students more time for recess, and some have already expanded the role of unstructured play in a child’s school day. The momentum...
As California school districts have lowered chronic absences among students, experts have noted that rates remain high among transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students.
At Cal State San Marcos, prospective elementary school teachers say arts-based instruction helps students perform better — and more creatively — in core subjects.
New York’s Regents exams are set to be phased out as a graduation requirement starting next year. The state’s new assessment system could take years to develop. In the meantime, city students would need to pass their...