Higher Grades, Higher Earnings: New Study Ties In-School Mentoring with Huge Benefits for Students
Stuck at Home, Separated from Teachers, Children May Have Faced More Severe Abuse During Pandemic, Research Suggests
Elusive Data Show Teaching Candidates Fail Licensing Exams in Huge Numbers
High Schoolers Who Took Remote Classes During Pandemic Experienced a “Thriving Gap,” According to Duckworth-Led Study
Partisanship Alone Didn’t Determine School Reopenings, New Study Argues
New Federal Data Confirms Pandemic’s Blow to K-12 Enrollment, With Drop of 1.5 Million Students; Pre-K Experiences 22 Percent Decline
Falling Birth Rates Spur Clash over Race and School Choice in Michigan
‘We are Becoming Grayer’: New Hampshire’s Shrinking Birth Rates and Shuttered Schools Offer Preview for the Nation
Eric Adams Declared Winner of NYC’s Mayoral Primary, After Race Marked By Striking New Posture on Charter Schools
Research from Europe Points to Online Tutoring as a Potent Weapon Against Learning Loss
NAEP Science Scores Down for Fourth-Graders, Flat for Older Students; Are Reading Challenges to Blame?
Newark Students, Including Special Needs and English Learners, Are Less Likely to Transfer Out of Charters than District Schools, Study Finds
Researchers Combed Through Over 1,600 Teachers of the Year Since 1988. Here’s What They Learned about the Winners
Schools that Switched to a Four-Day Week Saw Learning Reductions. What Does that Mean for the Pandemic’s Lost Instructional Time?
Charter Founder Seth Andrew Charged with Stealing over $200,000 from Civics-Focused Network He Created
Battle over Charters, Providence Takeover Divides Democrats in Deep Blue Rhode Island
Drawing on Themes of Opportunity and Inequality, Former Obama Ed Secretary John King Announces Run for Maryland Governor
‘It’s So Hard’: As Trans Bans Spread, Experts Weigh How to Balance Fairness and Inclusion in High School Sports
The Opioid Crisis Was America’s Epidemic Before COVID. Research Suggests that Overdoses Hurt Student Achievement
Teachers Unions Lift Salaries and School Spending, Research Shows, But Evidence on Student Achievement Is Mixed
Marten Faces Tough Questions on Reopening Schools Before Senate Committee, But Few Obstacles to Nomination as Deputy Education Secretary
‘A Diverse Teaching Force Is a Quality Teaching Force’: Researcher Seth Gershenson Talks About His New Book and the Changing Demographics of American Schools
Inside the Massachusetts Study that Helped Change the CDC’s Stance on Social Distancing
Survey: More Young People Are Depressed During the Pandemic. But They May Be Using Social Media to Cope
FAFSA Applications Fell After COVID — And For Many Incoming Freshmen, They Haven’t Recovered
Expanded Child Tax Credit Enshrined in Relief Bill Could Substantially Cut Poverty — and Lift Academic Performance
Study: Chicago Tutoring Program Delivered Huge Math Gains; Personalization May Be the Key
After Year of ‘Peril’ for Democracy, Scholars Release New Framework for History and Civics in Schools
More Lawmakers Are Leading Efforts to Reopen Some Schools By Statute — And Not Just in Red States
For Years, Denver Public Schools Were a Haven for School Reform. After a Superintendent’s Resignation, What Comes Next?
Report: New Summer Learning Initiative, Launched Last Year as a 5-Week Pilot for Nearly 12,000 Students, Shows Promise For Improving Online Instruction
Lead Poisoning Hurts Kids. A New Study Shows How Exposure from an Unexpected Source — NASCAR Racetracks — Lowered Test Scores
74 Interview: Veteran Policy Analyst Isabel Sawhill on Schools, Civic Education, and American Identity After Trump
Force of Habit: New Study Finds that Routines Could Be Blocking Teacher Improvement
On His First Day in White House, Biden Dissolves Trump’s 1776 Commission on U.S. History
74 Interview: Researcher Angela Duckworth on Psychology, Parenting and Great Teachers — and Why ‘It’s More Important to Be Honest than To Be Gritty’
Study: Exposure to Desegregated Schools Often Made Whites Less Tolerant As Adults
Research Shows Students Benefiting From Arts Field Trips, But Will They Recede After COVID?
Research Shows Changing Schools Can Make or Break a Student, But the Wave of Post-COVID Mobility May Challenge the Systems in Ways We’ve Never Seen
16 Charts that Changed the Way We Thought About America’s Schools This Year
Five Years On, ESSA’s Hallmark Flexibility May Be Undermining Equity, Report Finds
Alaska Legend Don Young Wins 25th Term in Congress, Announces He’s COVID-Positive
Democrats Fall Short of Majority in Arizona Legislature
Who Will Succeed DeVos? With Senate Control Up for Grabs, Democrats Hunt for ‘Unicorn’ to Lead Department Beset by Crisis
Oakland Votes to Let Teens Cast Ballots in School Board Races, SF Defeats Similar Measure to Lower Voting Age
North Carolina Legislature Remains in Republican Hands, Divided Government to Continue
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper Wins Second Term in North Carolina, but Hopes of ‘Trifecta’ Fade
Former NYC School Principal Jamaal Bowman, Running Unopposed, Elected to Congress After Surprise Primary Win
Twelfth-Grade NAEP Scores Offer More Bad News for Reading, Stagnation in Math
In Alaska, an Education Activist is Trying to Unseat the House’s Longest-Serving Republican
Politics, Not Science, is Driving School Reopening Decisions to a ‘Really Dangerous’ Degree, Research Suggests
Survey: More than Half of Teachers Felt Less Successful After COVID-19
Federal Judge Dismisses Rhode Island Students’ Suit for Right to Civic Education
Race, Trump & History:
Weeks Before Election, President Leaps Into Culture War Skirmish Over Teaching 1619 Project
Using Tutors to Combat COVID Learning Loss: New Research Shows That Even Lightly Trained Volunteers Drive Academic Gains
Everything Is Up for Grabs in North Carolina This Election Day. The Consequences for Public Schools Could Be Huge
Education Policy ‘Ghost’ Carmel Martin Is Biden’s Most Important Staffer You’ve Never Heard Of
Democratic School Choice Advocates Struggle to Be Heard Over the Din of COVID, Trump & Recession as Virtual Convention Ushers in Election’s Final Phase
Two States, Two Responses: Governors in Missouri and Kansas Navigate the Tricky Politics of Reopening Schools
The Achievement Gap Has Driven Education Reform for Decades. Now Some Are Calling It a Racist Idea
‘Do You Really Want to Spend the Money on Online Yale?’ For the Class of 2020, Gap Years Beckon
The 74 Interview: Political Scientist Heath Brown on COVID-19 and the Politics of Homeschooling
Nearly a Month After Election, Insurgent Educator Jamaal Bowman Declared Victor Over Veteran New York Congressman
New Study Does Not Find Stark Differences in How District, Charter and Private Schools Responded to COVID-19 Crisis
Which Schools Beat the Odds? In National Study, Researchers Find Top Results for Newark, Boston and Pittsburgh
The Veepstakes Is Taking Over, But the Education World Wants to Know: Who Will Replace DeVos?
In 5-4 Espinoza Ruling, Supreme Court Allows Public Funding for Religious Schools
In New Rule, DeVos Offers Tricky Balancing Act on Private School Coronavirus Relief
An EDlection Surprise in NYC? In Tuesday’s Primary, a Former Teacher and Principal Aims to Unseat 16-Term Bronx Incumbent Eliot Engel
A New Study Ties Anti-Bullying Laws to a Reduction in Suicide — but Boys Were Mostly Unaffected
COVID Poses an ‘Existential Threat’ to Many Private Schools, but Congress Might Block DeVos’s Push for Relief
Rich School, Poor School: As Recession Looms, Test Results Show That Affluent Students Score Higher in Financial Literacy
New Democratic ‘Unity Task Forces’ Include Education Adviser Who Previously Railed Against Biden’s ‘So-Called School Reform Agenda’
Record-Breaking Coronavirus Job Losses Devastate the Least Educated — and Have Already Displaced Highest Degree Holders Worse Than the Great Recession
An Education System, Divided: How Internet Inequity Persisted Through 4 Presidents and Left Schools Unprepared for the Pandemic
NAEP Social Studies Scores Show a Downturn in Geography, U.S. History. But Are the Headlines ‘Hyped’?
In School Finance Discussion, Experts Warn That Economic Damage From COVID Could Force ‘Unheard-of’ Cuts
Coronavirus Could Deliver Disastrous Setback to Public Pre-K, Study Warns
Half of All School Employees Aren’t Teachers. This Recession Will Endanger Their Jobs
Study: Career and Technical Education Yields Not Just Higher Earnings but Higher Test Scores
What the Great Recession Tells Us About the Pandemic Downturn to Come: Expect Declining Student Performance, Widening Achievement Gaps
School Finance Expert Warns District Leaders to Prepare for ‘Major Financial Upheaval’ From Pandemic
Amid Pandemic, DeVos Announces One-Year Testing and Accountability Waiver. Here’s a Look at What to Expect
Boston Schools Escape Takeover but Must Show Improvement to State as District Enters Partnership
‘Probably the Best News for Federal Accountability Policy, Ever’: New Study Shows No Child Left Behind’s Tough Oversight Led to Big Boost in High School Graduation Rates
Back on Capitol Hill, DeVos Addresses Pointed Questions on Budget, Coronavirus
DeVos Faces Tough Questions as Trump Budget Sparks a Reckoning on School Choice
Biden Notches Decisive Win in South Carolina Primary, as Lawmakers Edge Towards State Education Overhaul
Bernie Sanders Wins Nevada: How Las Vegas Teachers Helped the Candidate Score His Biggest 2020 Victory Yet
America’s Young People Don’t Vote. In a New Book, Professor John Holbein Considers What Schools Can Do to Produce Better Citizens — and Maybe Even Get Them to the Polls
Trump Uses State of the Union Address to Push for Tax-Credit Scholarships, Declaring No Child Should Be Forced to Attend ‘a Failing Government School’
Districts, Charters and ‘Public School Vouchers’: Unraveling Elizabeth Warren’s Complicated Evolution on School Choice
At National Literacy Summit, State Education Chiefs Warn of Reading Stagnation
Chief Justice Roberts, Potential Supreme Court Swing Vote in Key Religious Schools Case, Plays Cards Close
A 2019 Education Journalism Jealousy List: 19 Important Articles About Schools We Wish We Had Published Last Year
14 Charts That Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2019
One of the Nation’s Oldest Desegregation Cases Might Settle This Week in New Orleans. After 54 Years in the Federal Courts, What Has It Accomplished?
EDlection2019: Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards Keeps the Democrats Rolling in the South
EDlection2019: Democrats Enjoy Big Wins in Kentucky and Virginia, and Reform Foes ‘Flip the Board’ in Denver
Democrats Look to Win Elections and Big Education Victories — in the South. No, Seriously
A ‘Disturbing’ Assessment: Sagging Reading Scores, Particularly for Eighth-Graders, Headline 2019’s Disappointing NAEP Results
New Data Illustrate the Depth of America’s College Completion Crisis
Louisiana’s Governor Race Is Tight but Will Likely Not Affect the Fate of Education Reform in the State
Colombia Pre-K Study Finds That Funding the Wrong Priorities Can Be Worse Than Doing Nothing at All
Is Denver’s Era of Education Reform Coming to an End? Outsider School Board Candidates Aim to ‘Flip the Board’ This November
As Chicago Teachers Threaten to Walk Out, New Report Suggests a ‘Hidden Driver’ Behind Rash of Strikes: Skyrocketing Pension and Health Costs
Sanders Pulls Out of Campaign Doldrums With a Huge Fundraising Quarter — and Lots of Support From Teachers
New Study of Boston Charter Schools Shows Huge Learning Gains for City’s Special Education Students & English Language Learners
Challenging Charter Critics, New Study Finds that as Sector Enrollment Grows, So Do Test Scores for Black and Hispanic Students
‘Why School Choice Is the Black Choice’: In Washington, Black Educators Have the Debate Democratic Presidential Candidates Didn’t Want
Schools in Providence Are Poised for a State Takeover. Can the District’s Decade-Old Student Union Seize the Moment?
Elite Schools, Prized by Parents and Politicians Alike, May Actually Hurt Disadvantaged Students More Than They Help, New Research Shows
Secessions Have Heightened the Racial Divide Between Southern School Districts, New Research Shows
Study: Chicago’s Civilian Monitoring Program Kept Kids Safe on School Commutes, Providing Possible Model for Urban Districts
New Survey: Teachers Report Widespread Student Behavioral Disruptions but Sharply Diverge on Whether Consequences Demonstrate Racial Bias
Censorship or Student Safety? Plans to Remove Iconic Mural at San Francisco High School Spark Furor
Research Shows That New Orleans Schools Have Improved Since Katrina. So Why Don’t Black Residents Agree?
Failing Schools: Home to Underachieving Students, Disillusioned Teachers and — According to a New Study — Higher Rates of Crime
Biden-Harris Exchange Makes Busing a Surprise Focus of 2020 Campaign. How Will It Affect the Debate Over Integration?
Johns Hopkins Report Offers ‘Devastating’ Findings for Providence Schools, Sparking Talk of State Takeover
Lawmakers Are Trying to End a Weird Quirk of California’s Charter School Sector. Here’s Why the State Is So Unusual
Inside the Perfect Political Storm: From California to New Jersey, Why More Democrats are Calling to End Charter School Growth
Exclusive: During Booker Era, Study Shows Newark Schools Took Huge Steps Forward — and It’s Not Just Charters That Improved
Boston Massively Expanded Its Charter Sector — Without Sacrificing School Quality. New Research Sheds Light on How Education Reforms Can Remain Effective While Applied at Scale
Charters Employ More Diverse Teachers Than Traditional Public Schools. Is It Giving Them a Leg Up With Minority Students?
Research Shows That Charters Do Best for California’s Low-Income and Minority Students. Now Lawmakers There Want to Slow Their Expansion
How We Segregate Schools Now: A 2019 Reality Check in Four Charts
The 74 Interview: Iconoclast Howard Fuller on Brown v. Board, Segregation and Race in America’s Schools — the Debate That ‘Will Go On Forever’
Brown v. Board at 65: Will Schools Ever Be Integrated?
Parents Select Schools Based on Way More Than Test Scores, Study Finds
KIPP Weighs In on Higher Education Act Rewrite, Calls on Congress to Make College More Accessible to Low-Income Kids
Can Civics Education Allow Schools to Rediscover Their Democratic Purpose — and Help Rescue America From Decline?
How Democracy Prep Is Drawing Upon Civics to Challenge Its Students to ‘Change the World’ — Before They Graduate
Democracy Prep’s Expansion Woes Raise Questions About Whether Civics Education Can Be Brought to Scale
Teaching Democracy: How One School Network Has Baked Civics & Activism Into Its DNA — and Produced Graduates Who Are More Likely to Vote
Power Is Knowledge: New Study Finds That Wealthy, Educated Families Are Using School Ratings to Self-Segregate
Markets Down, Student Scores Up: Study Finds That Teachers Hired During Recessions Are More Effective
Elected School Board Members Are Most Likely to Be White, Wealthy & Republican, New Study Finds
11 Charts That Changed the Way We Think About Schools in 2018
National Poll on Education Attitudes Finds Majority of Teachers Down on Profession, Lack Trust in Parents
Goldberg: Schools Need to Embrace a Civic Education That Values Patriotism Over Victimhood
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Pledges $1 Million to Train Teachers About Neuroscience
‘Gritty’ Kids Vote More: What the Research Shows About How Schools Build Citizens
The Age of Retraining: How Employers Are Working to Upskill Employees and Stave Off the Rise of the Machines
At the State Level, Democrats Had a Good Election Night — but Not a Great One. Did #Red4Ed Fizzle?
Massachusetts Study Finds That New Charters Boost Spending at Nearby District Schools — and Change How They Spend It
EDlection2018: House’s Longest-Serving Member Holds Off Challenge From Education Activist
EDlection2018: With Democratic Wins in Statehouse, Colorado Becomes Another Blue Trifecta
EDlection2018: The Happiest Republicans in the Country — From the Governor’s Mansion to Statehouse — Are in Florida
EDlection2018: Behind Lamont, Connecticut Dems Make Midterm Legislative Gains
EDlection2018: Democrat Wins Tight Governor’s Race in Connecticut, Turns to State’s Tough Finances
EDlection2018: In Wisconsin, Walker Loses Bid for Third Term, Despite Self-Branding as ‘Education Governor’
EDlection2018: Republican Mike DeWine Weathers ECOT Closure, Extends GOP’s Grip on Ohio Statehouse
EDlection2018: Democrat Gretchen Whitmer Is Elected Governor in Michigan, Opening the Door to Possible Charter Sector Reforms
EDlection2018: Jared Polis Becomes CO Governor as Democrats Flip Control of State Senate. Will Unified Control Change Face of State’s Ed Reforms?
Countdown to EDlection2018: As Midterms Approach, Here’s What the Latest Polls Show in 16 Key Races With Big Stakes for Schools
New ‘Redshirting’ Study Reveals That Boys Are Held Back More Than Girls — and It’s Actually Helping to Close an Achievement Gap Between the Genders
California’s Campaign for State Superintendent Costs More Than Most Senate Races. Here’s Why
Riding a Blue Wave, Democrats Are Poised to Win the Michigan Governor’s Race — and Deal a Blow to DeVos’s Education Legacy
Integrating Schools by Income, Not Race: Why Cities Are Embracing ‘an Idea Whose Time Has Come’
With Both Parties Vying for Complete Control of Connecticut’s Statehouse and Governor’s Mansion, the Midterms Could Shape State’s Education Priorities for Years
Study: Grade Inflation More Prevalent at Wealthy Schools, Where Parents Have Greater Ability to Game the System
Study Shows Boosting Funds to Poor School Districts Lifts Student Achievement but Fails to Narrow Racial & Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps
Private School Advantages Overhyped, Study Says, Offering Fodder to Vouchers’ Critics
New Study Shows States That Veered From Common Core Adopted Weaker Academic Standards
Plaintiff Oliver Brown Would Have Been 100 Years Old This Week: 8 Ways America’s Schools Have (and Haven’t) Changed Since the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board Verdict
#EDlection2018: In Connecticut Primaries, Acclaimed Teacher Jahana Hayes Handily Wins Democratic Nomination for Congress
Why Diversity Matters: Five Things We Know About How Black Students Benefit From Having Black Teachers
Troubled Student, Teen Mom, Teacher of the Year: Is Connecticut Congressional Candidate Jahana Hayes the New Face of the Democratic Party?
New Finding: Most States Don’t Test New Teachers on ‘Science of Reading’
New Research: Diversity Initiative Helps Stave Off Gentrification in Seven NYC Schools
Colorado Republicans Hold a One-Seat Majority in the State Senate. These Two Democrats Could Flip the Chamber — and Jump-Start State Education Reform
As Chicago Prepares to Close Additional Schools, New Report Shows the Shuttering of 49 Campuses in 2013 Led to Lower Test Scores
Study: Washington State Charters Enroll Higher Percentages of Special Needs Students Than Traditional Schools
Scott Walker Crushed Wisconsin’s Teachers Union. Can He Win a Third Term Against Its Superintendent of Schools?
In the Aftermath of Katrina-Inspired School Reforms, Report Shows New Orleans Students Are Now More Likely to Attend — and Graduate From — College
Study: As Catholic Options Dwindle, Middle Class Retreats From Private Schools
Arizona Has Long Been a Testing Ground for Education Reformers. Now Teachers Could Lead an Election-Year Backlash Against Republicans
Education by the Numbers: 9 Statistics That Have Made Us Think Differently About America’s Schools This Academic Year
Four Key Points From Justice Samuel Alito’s Far-Reaching Janus Decision That Overturns 41-Year-Old Precedent on Agency Fees
Study: Gaps in Civics Performance Between Black and White Students Deepened in NCLB Era
How Schools & Philanthropists Are Joining Forces to Fight Back Against Fake News: Inside the Renewed Push for Social Studies, Media Literacy, Civic Engagement
Study: Multi-Year Gates Experiment to Improve Teacher Effectiveness Spent $575 Million, Didn’t Make an Impact
New Study: Multilingual Students Have Made Huge Progress on NAEP Since 2003
Thrive Schools: How an Innovative California Charter Network Grew to 700 Students & 4 Campuses in Only 4 Years Through a Focus on Math, Literacy & ‘the Light of Kindness’
Can Ending Teacher Tenure Improve Student Achievement? A Case Study in Florida Yields Important Results
Predicting the Next Wave of Teacher Strikes: Experts See a Whole New Round of Walkouts Come Fall, and a Possible Key Wedge Issue Come Election Night
Don’t Rate Teaching Schools Based on Student Test Scores, Study Warns
States Are Raising the Bar for Their Students, New Report Shows, but Higher Standards Are Not Driving Higher Test Scores
National Trends Carry the Day in Idaho Governor’s Race
How America’s Schools Have (and Haven’t) Changed in the 64 Years Since the Brown v. Board Verdict — as Told in 15 Charts
EDlection 2018: Could an Online Education Scandal in Ohio Cost the GOP the Governor’s Office?
Disadvantaged Kids Don’t Have Equal Access to Great Teachers. Research Suggests That Hurts Their Learning
How the Push for Preschool Teachers to Earn Costly College Degrees Could Strain a System in Which Wages Are Only Half of K-12 Teachers’
At ASU-GSV, Angela Duckworth Talks Grit and the Challenges of Building a Movement: ‘Education Is So Hard That It Tests Even My Own Grit’
President George W. Bush Reflects on the Lasting Impact of No Child Left Behind at ASU+GSV: ‘For the First Time, in Return for Money, People Had to Show Results’
Study: Kids Who Struggle With Executive Function Vastly More Likely to Experience Academic Difficulties
Robots, Grit, Personalization: 13 Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss at This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit
The Biggest Gainers and Losers Over ‘Education’s Lost Decade’
A ‘Lost Decade’ for Academic Progress? NAEP Scores Remain Flat Amid Signs of a Widening Gap Between Highest and Lowest Performers
‘Countries Aren’t Sports Teams’: International Test Rankings Distort More Than They Reveal, Renowned Statistician Warns
A Huge For-Profit Charter Network Uses the Same Approaches as High-Performing Nonprofits. The Results Are Impressive
New Report: In 46 States, High School Graduation Requirements Aren’t Enough to Qualify for Nearby Public Universities
A Turning Point for Union Research? New Study Shows a Negative Relationship Between Collective Bargaining & Boys’ Future Earnings, Career Tracks
Study: Teacher Coaching Can Boost Instruction and Student Achievement. But Can It Be Scaled Up?
After Parkland, Young People Led the Way in Protesting Gun Violence. Now Some Are Saying We Should Let 16-Year-Olds Vote, Too
New Study Warns the Push for More Math & Science Classes in High School Isn’t Yielding More College Students Pursuing STEM Careers
Gun Control Group Pledges $2.5 Million to Sponsor March for Our Lives Protests
There Are Three Times as Many Latino Students as Teachers in America. Two New Reports Show Why That’s Bad for Both
Between Victory in West Virginia and (Likely) Defeat Before the Supreme Court, Teachers Unions Find Themselves at Historic Crossroads
Game Over: Trump Says Video Games Could Cause Real Deaths. But Research Finds Scant Links Between Digital Mayhem and Violent Behavior
Traditional Schools Enroll Higher Proportions of Disabled Students Than Charters, Though the Gap Is Shrinking, Study Finds
Race and Debt: Black Grads Default More Frequently Than White Dropouts
Return on Investment: Study Shows Big-City Charters Use Education Dollars More Effectively — and Provide Better Future Earnings for Students — Than District Schools
Brookings: New Revelations About Teacher Vacancies — and Which Students Go to Those Schools
NYC’s Special Education Crisis, Where 1 in 4 Families Doesn’t Receive Guaranteed Services and Students Are Forced to Wait 60 Days (or More) for IEP Meetings
New Analysis Shows Milwaukee’s Religious Schools Now Overwhelmingly Enroll Voucher Students
Good Neighbors: Traditional Public Schools See Higher Test Scores When a Charter School Opens Nearby
Wisconsin Reformers Move Toward a First: Education Savings Accounts for Gifted Kids
Survey: Nearly 90 Percent of Principals Who Supervise TFA Members Would Recommend Hiring Them
If Phil Murphy Doesn’t Succeed Where Seven Former Governors Failed on Pension Costs, Is New Jersey Headed for Fiscal Catastrophe?
The States That Spend the Most (and Least) on Education — and How Their Students Perform Compared With Their Neighbors
Reducing Class Sizes Is Popular With Parents but Not Education Experts. New Research on CA Program Might Change That
Analysis: Yes, National Media, Poor Schools With Big Challenges Sometimes Work Wonders
As CHIP Funding Nears Expiration, Study Warns that Half of All Kids Under 4 Depend on Publicly Provided Health Care
New Economics Paper Shows That High School and College Jobs Leads to Higher Wages Later in Life
The Benefits of Merit Pay? New Study Shows That Federally Funded Teacher Bonuses Led to Improved Student Performance
New Book on School Segregation to Spotlight Landmark Dissent from Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
Study Shows That Girls in Korea Score Higher, Enroll in More STEM Classes, When Assigned Female Teachers
New Study Shows America’s Largest Teachers Union Spent Big to Win Republican Allies as Democrats Lost Ground
10 Charts That Changed the Way We Think About America’s Schools in 2017
Forty Years After Court Order, a Louisiana County Is Finally Hiring More Black Teachers. Student Performance Remains Unchanged
50 Years After Latin Disappeared From High School Classrooms, These Educators Are Bringing It Back
New Report: What American School Districts Can Learn From How Israel Successfully Rotates Its Superintendents
My School’s Great, but American Education? Not So Much. New Poll on U.S. Attitudes Suggests Public Perception ‘in a State of Flux’
Report: When Black Students and White Students Fight, Blacks Receive Harsher Punishments
New Report Shows Chicago’s Charter Schools Yield Higher Test Scores — and College Enrollment
Philadelphia School Reform Commission Votes to Abolish Itself After 16 Years
More Money, More Problems (Solved Correctly): New Study Shows American Kids Do Better on Tests If You Pay for Answers
Early Education Is a Game Changer: New Report Shows That Reaching Infants and Toddlers Reduces Special Education Placement, Leads to Soaring Graduation Rates
Report: Dozens of Arts Programs Could Receive Funding Under Federal Education Law
In Arkansas, 82% of Special Education Students Graduate on Time; in Mississippi, 31% Do
Report: 30 Million Well-Paying Jobs, Mostly in the West and South, Exist for Workers Without Bachelor’s Degrees
A Blow for Republicans — and a ‘Warning Light’ for Education Reformers — in the 2017 Elections Results
The Hidden Mental Health Crisis in America’s Schools: Millions of Kids Not Receiving Services They Need
61% of Teachers Stressed Out, 58% Say Mental Health Is Not Good in New National Survey
New Research: As Tuition Rises, Vaunted Public Universities Cater to a Wealthier Clientele
Michigan GOP Fights to Eliminate State Board of Education as Scores Plummet, Highlighting Broader Debate Over School Oversight
Children From Low-Income, Less Educated Families Spend Nearly Twice as Much Time on Screens
Teen Birth Rate Plummets to Record Low as Trump Cuts Funding for Pregnancy Prevention
Sprint Expands Program Giving Low-Income Kids Phones, Tablets to Close Homework Gap
Race, Gender & Teaching: The Same Indiana Recruitment Program That Failed to Attract Minority Teachers Also Skewed 85% Female
Ohio Says Its Largest E-School Overbilled State by Nearly $80 Million. Now 15,000 Students May See Their School Close
Behind That Nobel Prize for Economics, an Innovation for Schools? How ‘Nudge Theory’ Is Already Being Tested in Classrooms
Where Are the Hispanic Teachers? While Hiring’s Exploded in Past 25 Years, There Are Still 3 Times as Many Hispanic Students as Instructors
Acclaimed Netflix Documentary ‘Night School’ Profiles Indianapolis Dropouts Getting a Second Chance at Innovative Charter School
The Age of Automation Demands a New American School System, Study Declares
As New Wisconsin Budget Expands Voucher Program and Charter Schools, a Governor’s Race Forms Around Key Education Issues
How College Debt Is Reshaping America: New Study Shows Wide Variations Between States, Regions, Coasts
Why the Race to Find Bilingual Teachers? Because in Some States, 1 in 5 Students Is an English Language Learner
College Attendance Continues to Decline: 85% of College Admissions Directors Worry They Won’t Hit Enrollment Goals
Does Race Matter in Education? New Survey of Millennials Reveals Conflicting Opinions on Equity, Surprising Support for Vouchers
Pay Raises, Teacher Contracts, Charter Schools: Education Central to Boston Mayor’s Race
When College Grads Don’t Come Back Home: New Numbers Show a Widening Urban-Rural Education Divide
A Reboot for School Choice in Wisconsin as Republicans Propose Dramatically Expanding Charters & Vouchers?
Nobel Winner’s Research Shows Home Nurse Visits for New Moms Boost Children’s Cognitive Skills
Ohio’s ESSA Reboot: State School Leaders Make Big Pivot After Outcry Over Testing Requirements
Investigation: Forced Into Unneeded Remedial Classes, Some Community College Students Fail to Finish Degrees
The Rise of ‘College Admissions Sabotage’: When HS Seniors Use Social Media to Rat Out Their Classmates
Shift From Pre-K to Kindergarten “Fraught With Stress and Uncertainty”; Report Points to 4 Model States Easing the Transition
Intensive Preschool Programs Can Yield Massive Returns, Especially for Boys, Nobel Laureate’s Study Shows
When College Grads Don’t Come Back Home: New Numbers Show a Widening Urban-Rural Education Divide
Report: High Schoolers Motivated to Learn, but Varying Engagement Levels Point to Need for Tailored Instruction
Hidden Costs of Senate Health Care Bill: Uninsured Kids Do Worse in School, More Likely to Drop Out
College Presidents Slowly Becoming More Diverse but Still Mostly White Men in Their 60s
Report: For $42 Per Pupil, Districts Can Build Principal Pipelines and Get Better School Leaders
Georgia Special Election Makes American History; Voters’ Education Marks the Race’s Significance
You Are What You Eat (at School): Report Shows Healthy School Lunches Tied to Higher Student Test Scores
New England Teachers Get Rawest Retirement Deal in the Country; 0 in MA Will Ever See Investment Returns
Two in Three Premature Babies Ready for School on Time — and 4 More Key Findings From New National Study
Fewer Teens Are Working — and One Senator Says Falling Youth Employment Will Cost America $9.5 Billion
Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley Wants to Be Ohio’s Next Governor. But Her City’s Schools Might Not Let Her
With 6 Wins in 7 Years, Granada Hills Charter School Extends Its Dynasty in the U.S. Academic Decathlon
Scratch This: The Fall (and Possible Rise) of State Lotteries in Education Funding
Make Private School Free or Die: The Fight Over Education Savings Accounts in New Hampshire
Boston Schools Have Vowed to Combat ‘Racist’ Maps. Experts Want a Better Geography Curriculum
Arizona Lawmakers Implement Nation’s First Universal Education Savings Account Program
Want to Cause a Problem in the Future? Name Your School After Someone Famous Today
More HS Students Are Graduating, but These Key Indicators Prove Those Diplomas Are Worth Less Than Ever
WATCH: 5 Things to Know About How Right-Wing Critics Used Online ‘Botnets’ to Exaggerate Common Core Backlash
New Research Shows How Common Core Critics Built Social Media ‘Botnets’ to Skew the Education Debate
New Report: States Need to Focus More on College Readiness in ESSA Plans
In Leafy Chicago Suburb, at One of America’s Top High Schools, Parents Brawl Over Race Seminar
In Missouri, The Stars Align for School Choice
An Arts Education Crisis? How Potential Federal Cuts Could Decimate School Arts Programs
Analysis: School Choice — but Not in My Town. How to Integrate When Affluent Districts Pull Up the Drawbridge?
What Do Americans Think of School Choice? Depends on How You Ask the Question