By next fall, the Alpine School District—the state’s largest district—will split into three: the newly named Lake Mountain, Aspen Peaks and Timpanogos school districts. The post Utah’s largest school district just...
The campus of Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021.
In the nearly four years since generative artificial intelligence began colonizing the academic lives of teens, it has changed the experience of school for millions of young people. Perhaps no group has watched their...
Officials allege the Mabna Institute was behind an effort to steal research from American universities, companies and government agencies.
These siblings’ college dreams were nearly derailed by President Trump’s “public charge” immigration policy. But they made it to graduation, all at the same time.
New York City teachers union members rally for paraprofessional raises in January, 2025. A bill that would grant $10,000 one-time pay bumps became law on Wednesday.
The Chino Valley Unified School District is facing new legal scrutiny over its alleged school library book bans and an effort to require parental notification concerning student gender identity, the Los Angeles Times...
New York State is betting big on Portrait of a Graduate. It could transform how schools think about student success — or become one of the most well-intentioned failures in recent education policy. Last summer, the...
This summer, I ran a one-week artificial intelligence pilot at the Chicago headquarters of Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America, a nonprofit dedicated to helping refugees succeed in school. Most of the students...
A school in Kentucky sent students home with a bound agenda that included absurd errors clearly made by AI. The periodic table was nonsense. The map of the U.S. lists the state of Illinois as “Vitoiis,” and Kentucky is...
Indiana has more than 500 job openings for medical assistants, but training for the job isn’t cheap — between $1,500 and $4,000 at lower-cost schools, such as Indiana’s Ivy Tech Community College. The reduced $1,500...
Philly educators and school leaders are still waiting on their state test scores with less than a week until students return to classrooms.
In the opening of what is expected to be a lengthy and tense federal trial, a lawyer representing California and three other states suing tech giant Meta told jurors the company misled “users, legislators, teachers and...
Plaintiffs argued that the new rule would be “catastrophic” for universities and international students, and have asked a federal judge to block it.
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.
Kaitlan Sakuma, a second-year student at Pitzer College in Claremont, is the newest student member of the California Student Aid Commission. She is one of two students on the 15-member board. “Commissioner Sakuma’s...
This school year, $450 million in Career Technical Education, or CTE, funding will be allocated to eligible school districts and county education offices following a push to stop California from leaving millions of...
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...
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...
Over the past four years, generative artificial intelligence has quietly colonized the minds of U.S. adolescents, changing the way they learn.  A College Board survey last fall found that the share of high...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker secured an endorsement again from the Illinois Education Association for his reelection campaign.
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers President Arthur Steinberg, center, calls on the Philadelphia school district to improve its oversight of renovations in buildings with asbestos during a press conference Monday, Aug....
Few details are known without the rule’s text, which has yet to be published in the Federal Register, but the change may pose difficulties for employers.
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,...
Despite Seattle Public Schools’ district policy to issue devices to each of its nearly 50,000 students, some highly vocal parents are successfully opting their students out of technology altogether. The post These kids...
Arsenal Technical High School band students practice in April 2026. A record number of districts are seeking property tax increases at the polls in November to help fund operating expenses, such as academic programs and...
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...
We’re rounding up recent stories, from senators raising alarm about student visa appointment availability to a higher education antitrust case proceeding.