A Virginia school board rescinded a directive for staff to pull books with “sexually explicit” books from libraries early Tuesday after hours of passionate public comment. The Spotsylvania County school board voted 5-2 to reverse the order amid public backlash,…
A COVID-19 cluster that prompted a Rhode Island high school to move to remote classes for a week may be tied to a recent homecoming dance, health officials said. Pilgrim High School in Warwick started remote classes on Monday, about…
What’s in a name? Well, for Ji-Young, the newest muppet resident of “Sesame Street,” her name is a sign she was meant to live there. “So, in Korean traditionally the two syllables they each mean something different and Ji means,…
New York State will open 10 of its Covid-19 mass vaccination sites to children ages 5 to 11 who became newly eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as it seeks to expand access beyond a network of doctors’ offices, local health…
School bus drivers and dispatchers for Minneapolis Public Schools have voted unanimously to go on strike if they can't get what they want through mediation.
Classes are canceled for thousands of students across the U.S. as a teacher shortage exacerbated by COVID-19 takes a toll.
With teachers across the country complaining of extreme burnout, school districts are trying out big changes, including longer holiday breaks and shorter days.
The shares of American 9- and 13-year-olds who say they read for fun on an almost daily basis have dropped from nearly a decade ago and are at the lowest levels since at least the mid-1980s, according to a survey…
Students' self-management skills, such as self-discipline, self-control and self-motivation, are some of the most difficult social and emotional practices to learn but also the most important to develop, according to a report issued jointly Thursday by the American School Counselor Association and…
Most years, by the third week of first grade, Heather Miller is working with her class on writing the beginning, middle and end of simple words. This year, she had to backtrack — all the way to the letter “H.”
A federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to the enforcement and implementation of Tennessee's new law banning public school mask mandates. In an uncommon order issued Sunday, U.S. Middle District Court Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr. ordered all parties in…
A group of Senate Democrats on Friday urged the federal government to do more to protect K-12 institutions and students against crippling cyberattacks, which have increasingly wreaked havoc across the nation during the past year
Noel Scott's 7-year-old son, Jabril, has missed roughly three months of school since his district, Los Angeles Unified, reopened classrooms for in-person learning in April. That's largely because Jabril, who has Down syndrome and autism, can't wear a mask –…
Ever since the start of the pandemic, more and more public school students are using laptops, tablets or similar devices issued by their schools. The percentage of teachers who reported their schools had provided their students with such devices doubled…
When Perrysburg School Superintendent Thomas Hosler sent a survey to parents in his Toledo-area district to see how many wanted to get their children vaccinated against Covid-19, he got more than 20,000 "no" responses. His district only has 5,700 students…
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Tuesday that it "wasn't a mistake" to keep schools closed for as long as they were throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, an issue that has become one of the biggest flashpoints in the U.S.
