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…
Adults who took high school biology might remember a lecture on cell structure, then a test asking to identify its parts, plus an assignment to build a cell, perhaps with papier mâché and dry macaroni. Today, California students are supposed…
Homework: one word that makes the heart of many a parent sink and is guaranteed, at any given time, to be causing rows in homes around the world. The homework debate has raged for decades. How much homework should kids…
A new study finds that test scores went up in some Los Angeles schools after air filters were installed to protect students from outside pollution.
The choir at Arvada West High School in Colorado has commissioned and performed two songs about school shootings in an effort to help students process their fear.
A New Jersey school district is investigating a teacher’s history lesson that had students pretend to be slaves, officials said. According to social media posts by a student in the class, 8th-grade social studies teacher Lawrence Cuneo forced Toms River…
Advocacy organizations and more than two dozen lawmakers are asking the state education department to reschedule standardized math tests to allow students to participate in rallies for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The letter, sent Thursday, also asks state…
Karin Moore has come to rely on Tennessee’s 3-year-old voucher program for students with disabilities. Without it, the former special education teacher said she couldn’t afford to homeschool her 12-year-old twin sons, who have autism. Then last fall, the disbursements…
On the second anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, three surviving family members write about how they believe schools can be made safer.
NBA star LeBron James has given the inaugural graduating class of his I Promise School the gift that will last a lifetime: a free college education.
The death of 6-year-old Faye Swetlik, who vanished outside her home in South Carolina this week, is "linked" to a neighbor whose body was discovered shortly after hers was found, police say. The corpse of Coty Scott Taylor, 30, was…
