A new, tighter schedule at Rocklin High School in Placer County has cut students’ lunch period one day a week to what is thought to be among the shortest in the state: 12 minutes, Capital Public Radio reported. “I had...
The annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on Sept. 11, 2024 in New York City.
The rapid rise of dyslexia in public discourse reflects a long-overdue shift in education. For decades, students with persistent reading difficulties were misunderstood, mislabeled or overlooked entirely. Increased...
The Chicago Board of Education will be fully elected for the first time in several decades this November.
Colorado students take the PSAT and SAT in the spring.
Philly educators and school leaders are still waiting on their state test scores with less than a week until students return to classrooms.
Education reEnvisioned BOCES, which is headed by Executive Director Ken Witt, will dissolve in a phased process over several months.
A new national report says Colorado and other states can improve results for high school students taking college-level classes.
Career Exploration Starts Earlier Than You Think When should career exploration begin? According to the research highlighted in this new guide, the answer is much earlier than many districts realize. Middle school is a...
NYC teachers could receive up to $8,500 for oversized classes, but weeks before school starts, it’s still unclear who will qualify for the extra pay.
Fresno State opened new student housing last week with some students moving in this week, The Fresno Bee reported. While the 22-campus California State University system has been adding thousands of beds over the last...
California fourth graders and their families will have free access to state parks again this year. The Free Fourth Grade Pass gives families admission to 54 state parks, up from 19 when the program was first established...
I did not come to chess as a grandmaster, a coach or someone trying to raise the next great prodigy. I came to it first as a father. My son Harry is twice exceptional, a term often used for children who are both gifted...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma children returned to school this week for their first academic year under strict new literacy laws. It will be their final school year before reading scores carry even...
It’s the fourth consecutive year that the national average exemption rate has reached a record, and the vast majority are parents withholding shots for nonmedical reasons. The post US school vaccination rates inch down...
Media stories about the skills mismatch between applicant qualifications and employer expectations have been a regular feature for decades. Among the most recent entries are a Washington Post story titled “Why...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Parent-teacher conferences can conjure a familiar scene: adults crammed into child-size chairs, listening to teachers run through a list of students’ achievements and struggles. For many...
This year’s startling collapse of New York City’s reading scores, followed by last year’s big gains, has some experts asking: Did something go wrong with the test itself? There is no clear evidence there is a problem,...
Every few years, testing experts at the U.S. Department of Education weigh state assessments against their “gold standard,” the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as “the nation’s report card.” In a...
On a warm Tuesday in late July, a blue van marked with a Transylvania County Schools logo pulled into a gravel driveway and let out a light honk. Seconds later, the door of a house swung open. Two children bounded down...
Mayor Mary Sheffield announced Friday a new program to keep kids safe on routes to school. A ride share pilot will also take around 150 students at risk of being chronically absent to school.
Susana Córdova, Colorado's education commissioner, wrote to Ken Witt, executive director of Education reEnvisioned BOCES, on Thursday urging him to dissolve his group.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Elementary and middle school students posted their best scores yet on end-of-year standardized tests, though more than half still can’t calculate as expected for their age, according to state testing...
For all the noise and attention and — laudable — political energy behind it, the science of reading is not a thing. Or, rather, it is not a thing that schools can implement. The science of reading is a series of facts...
Just days after Montezuma-Cortez district officials pledged to remove Biblical material from a newly adopted reading curriculum, the school board decided not to use the curriculum at all.
Experts say New York’s sharp swings in elementary reading scores are unusual and deserve scrutiny after last year’s gains reversed.
Indiana’s early literacy rates improved for the fifth consecutive year, with nearly 89% of Hoosier third graders demonstrating proficiency in foundational reading skills on the state’s IREAD assessment. The Indiana...
Nearly a quarter of U.S. children did not show up for school regularly in 2025, a slight decline from the previous year but still up from about 15 percent before COVID. The post Chronic absenteeism remains high six...