Students from 40 New Hampshire high schools and school groups will convene to compete in the semi-final round of this year’s Poetry Out Loud contest. Now in its 15th year, Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that…
Kentucky officials are seeking final feedback on a plan to guide career and technical education in the future. Based on initial feedback, the Kentucky Department of Education revised its draft of the Carl D. Perkins State Plan, also known as…
Today, an estimated 2.3 million people are incarcerated in the United States, making the U.S. number one on the list of countries with the highest prison populations. About 95 out of every 100 incarcerated Americans will eventually be released. But…
As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature.
Michael Guevara says his 10th grade students at Southwest High School like their classroom library because the books speak to them.
In one school district, families are pulling their kids out of school. In others, students show up in face masks. Educators in another Southern California community agreed to suspend an exchange program to keep visiting Chinese students out of quarantine.…
A 16-year-old boy in California's San Fernando Valley was physically attacked this week by bullies in his high school who accused him of having the coronavirus — simply because he is Asian American. It is just the latest episode in…
Middle school is rarely easy — but it should never, ever be this hard. Aptos Middle School stands grandly among stunning homes near some of the city’s toniest neighborhoods: Saint Francis Wood, Mount Davidson Manor and Ingleside Terraces. It’s long…
Bowen Levy was a boyish-looking teenager with curly brown hair who was diagnosed with autism at an early age. He was gentle and spirited, his family said — laughing infectiously when his sister danced with him or when he thought…
A coalition of city lawyers representing kids with learning disabilities are pushing back on a state proposal to let judges without law degrees hear the students’ complains. New York City now has fewer than 70 special education judges — called…
As poverty grows along Denver’s borders, some suburban schools are finding they have fewer resources to serve a changing crop of students. School districts are seeing areas of concentrated poverty with more schools needing extra resources to address the challenges…
A lot of what you see in modern school buses was decided in 1939. At a conference led by Teachers College professor, Frank Cyr. Since then school buses have changed a lot on the inside, but not so much on…
In many school districts across the United States, Black students are disciplined far more often than white students — and are also less likely to be enrolled in gifted and talented programs. But where have these gaps been the greatest?…
Debate over a referendum aimed at nullifying a Maine law that eliminates religious and philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccinations is intensifying during the countdown to a statewide vote. A group that supports the elimination of most opt-outs launched a television…
After losing his father at 14, James Gordon found comfort and father figures in school. Gordon, now an elementary school principal in Memphis, can easily rattle off the names of the African-American male educators he had in middle and high…
