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One class of 5th graders shows what's possible when teachers take their lessons outside.

Within his first week back at school after a year and a half, 7-year-old Ben Medlin was exposed to a classmate with COVID-19, and he was sent home, along with 7,000 other students in the district, for 14 days of…

A program is training teachers how to talk about the pandemic, vaccines and masks in places where the science is up for debate.

Sept. 15 marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month — and it comes as schools across America settle into a new academic year after nearly two years of chaotic pandemic learning. This year’s month of celebration — chosen by Congress…

The Department of Education’s findings provide more evidence of racial disparities in career and technical education, first identified in a Hechinger Report/Associated Press analysis last year.

In a typical back-to-school season, markers and poster board might be on a classroom supply list. This year, they’re also hot items for protesters attending their local school board meetings. Mask mandates, critical race theory, “you name the issue and…

Students in Louisville, Ky., have been back in classrooms for a month this school year, and already parents are pressuring the governor to address the district's rising COVID-19 case numbers. As of Tuesday, Jefferson County Public Schools has reported 379…

National Guard troops are used to being activated during times of natural disaster or civil unrest — but in Massachusetts, they're being called out to drive students to school. The office of Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday that as many as…

Julie Lam, 16, had to crawl under a turnstile to catch the subway on her second day of school this week.  Lam relies on a school-issued MetroCard to commute to and from Manhattan’s Baruch College Campus High School. But, on the…

Bad state policy, misplaced optimism, and a focus on full-time virtual schools left districts scrambling to educate quarantined students.

America’s schoolchildren spent less time in the classroom last year than ever before in modern history. Now teachers are scrambling to fill in the gaps.

Many of the school districts facing backlash over equity initiatives are diversifying faster than the national average.

Fearing his parents wouldn’t approve of his decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine but needing their signature, Andrew signed up for the appointment in secret, and then sprang it on them at the last minute.  They said no. Andrew cursed…

Shahnaz Habib’s 10-year-old daughter was ready for a momentous day back at school. After learning online for more than a year, she told her fifth grader that, years from now, she would want to remember what it was like to…

Music education advocates have been fighting back against school budget cuts by  claiming that that learning music makes kids better at learning other things.  Numerous studies have found that students who play an instrument tend to do better in school across a wide range…

In a time of profound disruption, innovative online content like ‘The Dream SMP’ helped millions of kids stay connected to the social world.