What You Never Realized You Were Teaching Your Child About Grit & Resilience: MIT Study Captures Techniques That Work for Babies as Young as 13 Months
New Mexico Tests True Power of ESSA by Rejecting Turnaround Plans for the 4 Worst Schools in the State
Most KIPP Grads Report a Sense Of Belonging and Engagement In College, New Report Finds
Toilet Paper, Glow Sticks, and Multiplication: Study Shows How One Free After-School Club Can Help Reduce Math Anxiety
Women’s History Month: These Female Trailblazers Changed American Education For You and Your Kids. Do You Know Their Names?
America Remembers Linda Brown, 75, the Third-Grader Who Became The Face of ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ And Overturned School Segregation
How Catholic Nuns Brought Education & Female Empowerment to Millions of Children, Women & Immigrants by Teaching Students on the Fringes
Oakland’s New Superintendent Is a Homegrown Leader for a District in Financial Turmoil
Meet Lucy Wheelock: How an Early-20th-Century Educator Saved Kindergarten for Generations of U.S. Kids — & Founded Her Own College
New Analysis of Personalized Learning Programs Shows Reading Gains for Chicago Students
Gallup Poll: Most Educators Don’t Want to Be Armed With Guns
‘Boo Guns!’ — New Jersey Parents Sign Their Young Children Out of School for a Teachable Moment In Civic Engagement
Rise of Fake News Gives New Urgency to Media Literacy Education in America’s Schools
Meet Fanny Jackson Coppin: Born Into Slavery, She Graduated From College, Became a Teacher — and Lifted Up Generations of Black Americans
Why Some Colleges Are Reassuring High Schoolers: If You Walk Out Wednesday, Don’t Worry — Peaceful Protests Won’t Hurt Admissions
1 Teen Dead, Another Injured After Birmingham, Alabama, High School Shooting; at Least 27 Killed & 46 Injured at Schools in 2018
Meet Ella Flagg Young, First Female School Superintendent of a Major U.S. City — and Ed Reform’s Forgotten Thought Leader
Harvard-MIT Personalized Learning Program to Help Early Readers Gets $30M From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Texas Nonprofit Gets $790K Grant for Efforts to Boost Diversity in the Teaching Workforce
No One Would Hire Her. So She Wrote Title IX and Changed History for Millions of Women. Meet Education Trailblazer Patsy Mink
Oscar Preview: 3 Ways Education Could Take Center Stage at Sunday Night’s Academy Awards
Inside ‘Lady Bird’: Greta Gerwig Says She Wanted to Write a Different Kind of Love Letter to Catholic School — and It Might Just Win Her an Oscar
Oscar-Nominated Documentary Tells of Texas Math Teacher’s Violent Encounter With Police — and Her Struggle to Heal
DeKalb Elementary: Filmmaker Behind the Oscar-Nominated Short Talks About the Georgia School Shooting That Wasn’t
Wildflower to Bring Montessori Microschools to Indianapolis After Winning Charter Design Challenge From The Mind Trust
The State of Education in North Carolina: Funding Choices for Low-Income Kids, the Vast Rural-Urban Divide, a New Turnaround District & More
Survey: 1 in 3 Community College Students Reports Inadequate Advising on Academic Plans; 60 Percent Report Lack of Information About Job Opportunities
Analysis of Personalized Learning Programs in Chicago Shows That Strong Teacher Leaders, Not Technology, Key for Financial Sustainability
Learning From Olympians: How Classroom Champions Is Pairing Athletes With Schools to Offer Unique Lessons on Grit, Goals, and Perseverance
Want to Make Gifted Education More Equitable? First, Be Aware of the Political Winds That Drove (and Derailed) Innovative Policies in These States
A New Push for Play-Based Learning: Why Districts Say It’s Leading to More Engaged Students, Collaborative Classmates … and Better Grades
The Path of Opportunity, the Path of Despair: John King offers Urban Alliance a Tale of Two High Schools
In America’s Smallest State, a Proposal for a Colossal Surge in Public Dollars for Private Schools
New South Carolina Study of Public Montessori Schools Shows Majority Low-Income Students Outperforming Peers
School Choice of the Future: Jeb Bush Says Education Savings Accounts Can Empower Parents To Customize Their Children’s Schooling
Oakland Board Gives Itself a Raise After Cutting Millions From Schools
How One Program Is Closing the College Persistence Gap for Needy Students With Financial Aid, Social Supports, and a Powerful Data Tracker
From Washing Machines to the ‘Corridor of Shame,’ the 13 Most Innovative Schools We Visited This Year
74 Interview: Allan Golston on Network Schools, Scaling Solutions to Inequity, and Why Curriculum Matters — and Luck Shouldn’t
Only Half of Students Think What They’re Learning in School Is Relevant to the Real World, Survey Says
74 Interview: Richard Culatta on How to Do Personalized Learning Well — and Why It Could Be the Key to Narrowing a School’s Equity Gap
Most Pregnant and Parenting Students Don’t Graduate. Here’s How One Rhode Island High School Is Helping Its Teens Beat the Odds
3 Ways Schools Can Use Federal Funding Through ESSA to Support Social-Emotional Learning
Mentoring Program Posts 81% College Persistence Rate With Focus on In-Person Coaching, Affordability, New Study Finds
States Make Surprising Progress Toward Growth in ESSA Accountability Plans, New Fordham Report Finds
15 Ways Taylor Swift’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy’s Most Pressing Issues
25 Years, 1 Million Kids. How Expeditionary Deeper Learning Engages Students Through Inquiry, Discovery & Creativity
There’s Lots of Social-Emotional Support for Students, but Not for Teachers. Here Are Some Programs Looking to Change That
Principals Support Social-Emotional Learning, but 83% Don’t Know How to Measure Its Success, Study Finds
Back at School After Wildfires, California Educators Address Student and Teacher Trauma
Bridging College and Profession: Inside the ‘Basta’ Mentoring Program Helping First-Generation Graduates Pursue Their Careers
Gates Foundation Shifts Education Focus to Network Schools, Innovation, and Special Education Charters
WATCH LIVE: Bill Gates to Discuss Education Equity During Council of the Great City Schools Conference
Science Is for Boy Scouts; Critical Thinking Is for Girl Scouts. Here’s How They Differ in Their Gendered Messaging to Children
DeVos Visits Washington State, Where the Charter School Sector Has Expanded Even as Lawsuit Threatens to Shut It Down
One-Third of Girls With 4.0 GPAs Don’t Think They’re Smart — and Other Findings From National School Survey
States Skip Social-Emotional Learning for Accountability Under ESSA — but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not in Their Plans
How One of Indianapolis’s ‘Innovation School’ Principals Is Using Language of Love — and Spanish Immersion Program — to Achieve Dramatic Student Growth
As Tutoring Market Grows, New App Clark Steps In to Help Teachers Manage Their Student Clientele
Ghost Trees & ‘The Big One’: How to Teach Students About Major 9.0 Earthquake Due Right in Their Own Backyard
Social-Emotional Learning Helps Students Succeed, but by How Much? New Report Looks for Answers
When You Learn ‘Physics First’: How 2 STEM Teachers Led Their All-Girl Engineering Team From Worst to First in Aerospace Contest
Yes, Undocumented Students Have Rights Under the U.S. Constitution — but New Poll Shows That Most Americans Don’t Know That
Texting, Personalization, Free Computers for All: New Report Tells Where Ed Tech Works — and Fails
10% of All Public School Students Missing Classes as 6 States Cope With Irma
A’s, B’s, and Condoms: New Study of High School Students Links Good Grades With Healthier Choices
74 Interview: How Retired Football Player Wade Smith Has Dedicated His Post-NFL Career to Tackling Bullying and Illiteracy
Great CTE-xpectations: Inside Oregon’s New $170 Million Bet for Boosting One of the Worst Graduation Rates in the Nation
In 1 of the Largest Districts Most Needing A/C, 1,000 Hawaii Classrooms Get Cooled Off This School Year
19 Years Later …Teachers Are Still Bringing Harry Potter Magic to Their Classrooms for the Start of the School Year
When It Comes to College, Only Half of America’s High Schoolers Say They Feel Prepared, Survey Finds
ESSA Reviewers Call Out California’s Plan as Weak on Identifying Low-Performing Students and Schools
Who Says 6-Year-Olds Can’t Program Robots? Not This Pennsylvania First-Grade Teacher
The 74 Interview: Alexis Morin on Students For Education Reform, Youth Power & Achieving Educational Justice
Success Academy Students Outscore Every District in New York State on Annual English and Math Exams
Bullying on the Rise in NYC Middle and High Schools, NYDN Analysis of Student Surveys Shows
A D.C. Breakthrough as Traditional Public School Students Post Gains on PARCC Test, Outperforming Charters
New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year
Fewer Than 1 in 3 Americans Support Kids Opting out of Tests; About Half Confused on What ‘Opt Out’ Means
300 Tutors, Working With Students 2 Hours a Day: One School Network’s Investment in Personalized Learning
Driven to Serve: Maine Recruits Veterans for Free Training to Ease Shortage of School Bus Drivers
When It Comes to College, Only Half of America’s High Schoolers Say They Feel Prepared, Survey Finds
New Jersey Gives Newark Green Light to Resume Local Control of Schools After 20 Years in Receivership
90% of Parents Think Their Kids Are on Track in Math & Reading. The Real Number? Just 1 in 3, Survey Shows
New Tools to Fight ‘Summer Melt’: How One University’s Texting Campaign Is Keeping Incoming Freshmen on Track
8 Important Numbers From New Report on Children’s Well-Being: Progress on Poverty & Hunger, Rise in Depression
New Rankings: Most & Least Educated Cities — a Tale of Two Californias
Editorial Board Lauds Louisiana Superintendent John White — as State Forces Him to Work Month to Month
Weingarten Speech Tying School Choice to Racism Sets Off Firestorm
A Phoenix Breakthrough: How 3 Massachusetts High Schools Are Helping Dropouts Become College-Bound Grads
The $1,488 Back-to-School Bill: Backpack Index Tracks Rising Costs of Supplies, Fees for Band, Sports, Trips
How a Retired Teacher Won a Seat in Oklahoma’s Legislature — and Flipped a Red District Blue in the Process
Social-Emotional Learning Boosts Students’ Scores, Graduation Rates, Even Earnings, New Study Finds
NYC Mayoral Control Deal Includes Some Big Wins for City Charter Schools in Ongoing Fight for Space
With Digital Video Tools, Move This World Brings Social-Emotional Learning to a Wide School Audience
N.M. Ed Chief Hanna Skandera Leaves Office and Shares Tenure Highlights; Still ‘a Lot of Work to Do’
Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Now, 100 Years Later, Wildflower Is Reinventing the Model
Hanna Skandera Steps Down as New Mexico Education Secretary, ‘Finishing Strong’ After Lifting Student Scores
Nevada’s ESA Program Dies in Late-Night Legislative Deal That Gives $20 Million for Tax Credit Scholarships Instead
Who Let the Dogs in the Yearbook? Why More Schools Are Honoring Canine Companions as Invaluable Classmates
Reading Partners Boosts Literacy Among Poor Kids Nationwide. Trump’s Budget Cuts Could End All That
#FosterMyEducation: New Campaign Urges States to Embrace ESSA Rules Protecting Foster Kids
How to Keep Oklahoma’s Low-Paid Teachers From Leaving the State? Give Them a 4-Day Work Week
Bullying Hurts Both Victims & Bullies Long After They’re Out of School: 3 Things to Know From New Studies
The Boys Wouldn’t Listen, So 9-Year-Old Girl Started Her Own Robotics Team — and Won Big
1 in 5 Washington State HS Students Considered Suicide, 9% Attempted It, Shocking New Report Finds
74 Interview: Harvard’s Fernando Reimers on the Crucial Need to Teach Kids to Be Strong Global Citizens
BASIS: Inside the Acclaimed School Network That’s Blended Together the World’s Best Education Practices
At 13, This Student Started a Free Math Tutor Program. Then He Delayed College to Expand Nationally
Meet the 3 New Education Advocates to Be Inducted Into the National Charter School Hall of Fame
Time Magazine Honors Sandra Day O’Connor as Pioneer on Supreme Court — and in Civics Education
3 States Cite School Climate Surveys in Their ESSA Plans. Why Don’t Others Use Culture for Accountability?
U.S. News Ranks America’s Top Public High Schools — and for the First Time, Charters Dominate Top 10
Meet the 9 New Staffers Tapped to Fill Key Roles in Secretary Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education
AltSchool Hires 5 New Education and Technology Execs, Looks to Scale Learning Platform to Millions of Kids
Nevada’s Governor Rushes to Save Education Savings Accounts. But Will Program Survive Legislature’s Democrats?
Baltimore’s ‘Happy Teacher Revolution’: Educators Band Together to Help Each Other Thrive in the Classroom
150,000 Stories & Counting: Inside Washington, D.C.’s Campaign to Give Each Kid a New Book Every Month
Can You Spell Better Than This 5-Year-Old? Meet Edith, the Youngest-Ever Spelling Bee Contender
Denisha Merriweather, in Her Own Words: The Private School Scholarship That Changed My Life
Meet the Students Taking the Government to School, and to Court, in Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit
The Subtle Science of Sesame Street: What You Never Realized Grover Is Teaching Your Family
Atlanta School Turnaround Gets a Big Boost With $2.1 Million Grant From Walton Family Foundation
How YouCAN Is Growing Grassroots Education Leaders to Improve Their Schools and Communities
‘A Huge Win’: Washington State Charter School Supporters Celebrate Major Courtroom Victory
How’s Your School Culture? ESSA Says It’s Important, but Only 1 in 3 Students Nationwide Think It’s Good
How Little Kids Rock Is Bringing Music Back to School
Friedrichs 2.0: New Lawsuit By 8 Teachers Challenges Mandatory Dues Paid to California Union
74 Interview: New Mexico Education Secretary Hanna Skandera on How Her State Is Turning Around Schools
6 Ways High Schools Are Blazing a New Path to Higher Education, From the 2017 School Counselor of the Year
Nevada’s Looming Political Showdown Over America’s Largest Education Savings Account Program
Professional Development Leader Learning Forward, NCTAF Merge to Promote Better Teacher Training
What a Big Personalized-Learning Study Showed About 5 Ways to Rethink Teaching and Learning
Poll — 75% of Millennials Support School Choice; Majority of Americans Like Trump’s $20 Billion Plan
Why These Two Tulsa Educators Returned Home to Save the Latino Students Too Often Left Behind
The 7 Most Memorable Educators We Met in 2016
National School Choice Week to Host Record 20,000 Events From Jan. 22-28
Survey Results: Private, Charter School Parents More Satisfied Than District School Parents
Washington State Charter School Supporters, Opponents Look Ahead to a Critical Year
Finding Success in Failure: STEM Educators Say Student Risk-Taking Is Key to Real-World Learning
Trump Picks His Education Secretary: The First 6 Things to Know About Betsy DeVos
What a Novel Idea: Kids Take Up Challenge to Pen 50,000 Words During Nat’l Novel Writing Month
California Brings Back Bilingual Education
Clinton Says New Bullying Plan Will Remedy Harm of Trump Campaign
‘Vice News Tonight’ Report on 4-Day School Week Brings District’s Struggle to Young HBO Audience
Thousands of NYC Teachers Ask De Blasio to Expand Charter Schools
80,000 Kids Just Replied to a Survey About Bullying. Here’s What Surprised Their Educators Most
Building a Stronger Social Community at School: Forget Facebook, Let the Students Run the Snapchat
Thousands Call for More Charter Schools at Brooklyn Rally
Here Are Students’ Candid Responses to Their U.S. Education
Florida Families Say They Are Ready for Supreme Court Challenge to Tax Scholarship Program
Whose Civil Rights? Florida Parents, Pastors Fear NAACP-FEA Will Appeal Scholarship Ruling
‘We Deserve to Have a Choice’: Families Intervene in New Washington Lawsuit Over Charter Schools
‘Summer Melt’: Why Are Hundreds of Thousands of Freshmen Dropping Out of College Before Day One?
Zika in the Classroom? How Students in 9 Florida Schools Are Confronting a Public Health Emergency
California’s Sex Education Breakthrough: The Fight to Get Kids Information About Condoms — and Consent
Poll: More Than Half of New Yorkers Say They Would Prefer to Send Their Kid to a Public Charter School
Saved: How WA Parents, Students, Advocates and Educators Rescued Their Charter Schools
Thinking Like a Computer: Excel Charter School Teaches Kids to Break Down Complex Problems
In Washington State, Both Senate and House Approve Last-Minute Bill to Save Charter Schools
Facing a Thursday Deadline, and Lawmakers’ Silence, WA Students Fight to Keep Their Schools Alive
Washington House Fails to Act on Charter Bill as Dems Search for Alternative and Deadline Looms
WA Lawmakers Debate Accountability with Days Left to Save Charter Schools
Twenty Days and Counting: Bill to Save WA Charter Schools Moves to House as Session Nears End
Facing Closure, Washington State Charter Schools Release Data Showing Students Excelling
Washington State Senate Passes Charter Bill, Legislative Battle Advances to House
Legislative Battle Begins to Save Washington State Charters — Who Will Prevail?
Rival Bills to Save Washington Charters Hinge on Who Will Run Them
The Fate of Their Schools Uncertain, Washington Charter Families Weather an Anxious Holiday
Washington State Charters Find Temporary Shelter to Keep Schools Open in 2016
An Oregon Ed Reporter Reflects on a Massacre: I Used to Cover Umpqua Community College