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Students struggle even with teachers in the classroom, researcher finds

Now that the latest COVID surge is ebbing and schools have reopened, many Newark students are feeling better. But better isn’t the same as normal. At East Side High School, students were eager to return to their classrooms last week,…

Some districts ban Pride flags and Black Lives Matters signs in the classroom. Teachers are pushing back.

Maine education groups have joined an intellectual freedom campaign to push back against reports that certain books are inappropriate for school libraries.  Educate Maine, the organizer of the campaign, said “these challenges are about more than the content of the…

Maine might create a state fund to help students enrolled in early college courses afford their textbooks. Democratic Rep. Maggie O’Neil has proposed a bill that would create the Textbook Cost Assistance Fund within the Maine Department of Education. O’Neil…

On Tuesday, administrators announced that the SAT exam is moving online, which will parallel a shift to digital testing already underway in schools. The format change will begin abroad next year and in the United States in 2024.

The decision to apply for a waiver to Tennessee’s remote learning ban was not taken lightly.  Fayette County Schools Superintendent Versie Hamlett had been monitoring student and staff absenteeism at LaGrange-Moscow Elementary, one of the rural West Tennessee district’s seven…

Republicans in the Georgia House on Tuesday signaled they will push forward with a proposal that would allow parents to protest books and other materials that they believe are harmful to minors, with school officials required to decide within seven…

Russell Fan, a senior at Livingston High School in Livingston, N.J., who advocated for the new curriculum law, is frustrated that he first learned about Filipino-American civil rights activist Larry Itliong and Patsy Mink, the first woman of color elected…

Students in the Omaha Public Schools have been getting free lunches during the pandemic under a temporary federal program aimed at ensuring that children have access to healthy meals. Now OPS has been approved for a different federal program that…

When Education Secretary Miguel Cardona appeared before Congress in September to promote the Biden administration’s stimulus funding for schools, he promised tutoring to help students make up missed learning, as well as an end to instruction through screens.

America’s governors “are eyeing big spending plans for the coming year.” Bumping up educator pay is “one appealing idea for Republican and Democratic leaders alike, as yearly statehouse lawmaking sessions start and several governors face re-election bids this fall.”

The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education agreed Tuesday to phase out two of the MCAS science exams currently offered to high schoolers, even as some members voiced concerns about the signal that decision might be sending.

As schools across the country struggle to keep their doors open amid the Omicron surge, researchers have found a strong correlation between the unvaccinated and low levels of education. It found more than half of unvaccinated American adults who reported…

The review “from the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said that many of these children had lost basic numeracy and literacy skills from the prolonged loss of classroom learning.” UNICEF said up to 70 percent of 10-year-olds, in low- and…

Monday was a day of discord for Virginia schools as seven school boards sued to stop the mask-optional order by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on the day it took effect. At the same time, some parents brought maskless children to…