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...
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 09, 2026 at 2 p.m. Join HopSkipDrive and Igor Petrovic, Director of Transportation at Adams 12 Five Star Schools in Colorado, for a look at survey data that reveals a major gap...
Across the economy, Americans are watching an artificial intelligence investment boom reshape the job market. Some of the same companies spending hundreds of billions to build the AI future are also announcing sweeping...
Plaintiffs allege the Ivy League institution instead "actively participated in and amplified" racial and political targeting of its campus members.
Join Chalkbeat and four Memphis education experts Aug. 31 to discuss how state and district leaders can help students succeed.
Jaleel is attending his first day of classes this month at a middle school opening its doors for the first time that specializes in air traffic control, commercial drones and engineering. His parents decided not to send...
Countless times over the last few years, district leaders have reached out to my organization with a problem: They rolled out a new evidence-based curriculum and trained all their teachers, but many didn’t use it...
More student loan borrowers have defaulted on their loans, recent federal data shows.
Three years ago, a handful of Maine school districts struggling with student mental health needs applied for a federal grant to help them hire school counselors and social workers. The grant applications included a...
Educators and experts say districts are carrying much of the burden of vetting products on their own. The post Schools spend billions on AI, but struggle to figure out what’s worth it appeared first on District...
The Chicago Teachers Union Center last May. The union and Gov. JB Pritzker each hired political firms connected to people convicted of corruption.
However, U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley dismissed the claims against Common App and other noncollege defendants.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood...
As Newark families prepare to head back to class, local groups across the city are hosting school supply giveaways.
As millions of young people head back to school this fall, parents are buying backpacks, teachers are preparing lesson plans, and policymakers are once again debating what belongs in the classroom. One topic will...
Troy High School on April 24, 2026
Voyages Prep students Joseth Laiz (center) and Kamrin Jones (far left), helped spearhead the Playground Ninety basketball court project. They are with New York City Council member Shekar Krishnan at the playground's...
The Shenandoah County School Board must rename two schools after a federal court found its 2024 decision violated students' rights. The post Judge rules Virginia school board discriminated against Black students by...
A.J. Johnson’s oldest son was born in 2019, the year before residents of his home state of Washington could receive benefits from its newly passed paid family leave program. Johnson, a full-time firefighter, had to save...
District officials in the Montezuma-Cortez district will remove Christian faith-based content from elementary reading lessons provided by the Houston school district in Texas.
Under the settlement terms, the private college will bar discrimination against Zionist, Jewish and Israeli students and employees.
Updated When Jen Hanson, a veteran multilingual educator, first arrived at Denver’s Cherry Creek School District in June 2025, she said she quickly suspected the district was creating its own rules for moving students...
Standardized testing has long been the gold standard of student success. Large-scale assessments give districts a big-picture view of student progress, offering convenient data points to compare performance, identify...
As students head back to class across the country, Varsity Tutors for Schools, one of the nation’s largest providers, has gone out of business. In a shareholder letter last week, Chuck Cohn, CEO of Nerdy, Varsity’s...
COVID funding provided underfunded Philly-area schools with laptops. ‘RAMageddon’ might send them back in time as the worldwide computer memory shortage drives up the cost of laptops. The post Rising computer costs...
It’s 2026. Satellites connect to devices in our pockets, artificial intelligence algorithms can drive cars and scan X-rays, and Homer’s 3,000-year-old poem is the basis for the summer’s hottest movie. But there’s always...
We’re rounding up recent stories, from a request from U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to cuts at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In school lunchrooms around Lake Tahoe, students line up for a red, hairy fruit called a rambutan. On pozole day, they shout, “We want...
On June 26, Children’s Aid was preparing to continue summer sexual health and youth development programming in schools, foster care settings and community organizations across New York City. By the end of the day, the...