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As Advocates and Parents Rally, Youth Online Privacy Bills on Life Support

Mark Keierleber

September 14, 2022

Awakened By SCOTUS Ruling, Young People Join Push For Reproductive Rights

Asher Lehrer-Small

Does Your School Have a ‘Slander’ Account?

Asher Lehrer-Small

How the CDC Botched Revising Its Mask Guidance for Preschoolers

Asher Lehrer-Small

This Student-Led Nonprofit is Changing Teens’ Minds on the Vaccine

Asher Lehrer-Small

Aldeman: How Much Learning Time Are Students Getting? In 7 Large School Districts, Less Than Normal — and in 3, They’re Getting More

October 20, 2020

KIPP Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Alumni Network to Help Its 30K Graduates With Careers, Mental Health and Finances

Richard Whitmire

October 13, 2020

Race, Trump & History:
Weeks Before Election, President Leaps Into Culture War Skirmish Over Teaching 1619 Project

October 5, 2020

Barrett’s SCOTUS Confirmation Would Give Conservatives a Supermajority on Education Issues From Race-Based Admissions to School Choice but Could Create a ‘Desert for Equity,’ Experts Say

September 28, 2020

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‘Falling Through the Cracks’: Enrollment Drops in Cleveland Schools as COVID-19 Pushes Kids Online and the District Starts Hunt for Kids

Patrick O’Donnell

September 23, 2020

Photo Tour: What Back to School Looked Like in 16 Countries Around the World, Where Little About the Classroom (or Family Garage) Feels Familiar Amid the Pandemic

Meghan Gallagher

September 21, 2020

Data Exclusive: Scores of New York City Schools Still Unclear Who Will Evaluate Students With COVID Symptoms a Week Before Reopening

September 16, 2020

The Big Picture

New Report Estimates School Closures’ Long-Term Impact on the U.S. Economy at More Than $14 Trillion

September 13, 2020

WATCH: In New Animated Video Created for Kids, Dr. Fauci Helps Students Understand Coronavirus and Safety — and Plays a Memorable Round of ‘Fauc or Slouch’

Meghan Gallagher

September 8, 2020

New York City Sidesteps the Threat of a Teacher Strike by Delaying Reopening, but Will It Be Enough Time?

September 1, 2020

As D.C. Scrambles to Get Thousands of Students Laptops Before Monday Start of School, Many Parents Still in the Dark If Their Kids Will Get Them on Time

August 27, 2020

Photo History: 15 Years After Hurricane Katrina, Revisiting the Devastation and Renewal of New Orleans Schools

Mark Keierleber

August 23, 2020

On Hurricane Katrina’s 15th Anniversary, 5 New Orleans Educators Tap Lessons From the Storm to Confront COVID-19

August 23, 2020

Attend Our Student Town Hall Aug. 26: The 74 and America’s Promise Alliance Join Forces to Host Youth Forum on Reopening School Amid the Pandemic and Movement for Racial Justice

August 19, 2020

NYC Teachers Union Issues New School Safety Checklist and Coronavirus Testing Demands, Warns Nation’s Top District Not Ready to Reopen on Schedule

August 19, 2020

Video Explainer — The Year of the ‘Learning Pod’: With Schools Going Virtual, How Different Parents Are Looking to Launch Their Own Study Groups at Home

August 13, 2020

‘Learning Centers’ Take In Kids Locked Out of Schools During Online-Only Classes

Patrick O’Donnell

August 12, 2020

The Pandemic Is Breaking the Bonds Between Texas Families and Their Beloved Public Schools: Why Some Are Stepping Off the Reopening Roller Coaster and Unenrolling

August 11, 2020

Tiny Cities Run by Children Inside Texas Schools Are Teaching Social-Emotional and Project-Based Learning — Along With How to Pay Your Taxes

August 11, 2020

As Distance Learning Pushes Parents Into Pods, Some Look for Ways to Make the Model More Inclusive

August 10, 2020

Pandemic Notebook

Pandemic Notebook: 13 Students Across America Write About COVID-19, Their Disrupted School Year and the Disorienting New Normal

Andrew Brownstein

Interactive: Roadmaps to Reopening — States’ Guidance to Schools on Meals, Masks, Handwashing and More

Startup Computer Science High School in the Hard-Hit Bronx Made Quick Leap to Remote Learning

Making It Work: A Day in the Life of Families Living Through a Summer Like No Other

JoAnne Wasserman & Emmeline Zhao

Why I Wrote ‘Thinking Like a Lawyer’: Because Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students Paves a Path to Racial Justice

DACA Teachers Across the Country Embrace SCOTUS Ruling Allowing Them to ‘Live, Work Without Fear’

Education Groups Rejoice as Supreme Court Blocks Trump Efforts to End DACA Program — but Warn Decision Is Merely ‘First Step’

Mark Keierleber

To Reconnect Black Kids and Teens to the Great Outdoors, San Antonio’s Alex Bailey Is Teaching Skills — and Confronting Structural Racism

We Want to Hear From You: Answer Our 2020 Reader Survey and Let Us Know How We’re Doing

‘I’m Just a Teacher’: Hero Educator Cares for Student’s Newborn Brother When His Whole Family Gets Sick From Coronavirus

Photo Diary: What a Socially Distanced School Day Looks Like in Denmark, Where Students Have Already Returned to Class Amid Coronavirus

Meghan Gallagher

Steiner & Weisberg: When Students Go Back to School, Too Many Will Start the Year Behind. Here’s How to Catch Them Up — in Real Time

David Steiner & Daniel Weisberg

Must-See: 20 Inspiring Chalk Creations to Emerge From 2020’s #ChalkYourWalk, the Viral Campaign That’s Giving Students a Colorful Escape During the Pandemic

Meghan Gallagher

WATCH — The Colorful and Inspiring ‘Chalk Your Walk’ Spectacles That Separated Students Have Brought to Sidewalks Across America

Across the Country, Students, Parents & Teachers #ChalkYourWalk With Sidewalk Messages of Love and Hope — Even an Outdoor Exercise Routine

74 Interview: Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Urges ‘Empathetic Leadership’ Through ‘Brutal’ Coronavirus Crisis and Toward a New Normal

Andrew J. Rotherham & Emmeline Zhao

Pandemic Notebook

Student Voice: The Night the Lights Went Out on My Baseball Career — and My Normal High School Life

Steven Rissotto

For Undocumented Students, Coronavirus Pandemic Brings Learning Disruptions — and Economic Panic — With Few Avenues for Help

Mark Keierleber

Photo History: Scenes From the Week the Schools Closed, as NYC and LA Shutter America’s 2 Biggest Districts

Meghan Gallagher

WATCH: Students Across America Are Livestreaming Their School Musical Performances After Theater Star Laura Benanti Launches #SunshineSongs Campaign

Scenes From a Lost School Year: Photos From the Month Coronavirus Derailed Classrooms & Campuses

Meghan Gallagher

In Coronavirus ‘Hotspot,’ NY Gov. Cuomo Orders Schools Closed. Why the District Superintendent Resisted the Move

Mark Keierleber

Adams: NYC School Admissions, Attendance and Coronavirus — How Parents Forced the City to Change Its Applications Policy

Lake: As Coronavirus Forces Schools to Go Virtual, We Must Innovate — and Embrace Learning As We Go. How 1 Washington District at the Epicenter Is Doing Just That

Tyner: What Happens If Coronavirus Shuts Down U.S. Schools? 5 Lessons in Emergency Distance Learning From China

Georgia Students Team Up and Help Build Colorful Little Libraries to Bring Free Books to Young Readers in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Lee: Black History Demands We Break Down Barriers and Build Up Kids. How One School Network in Newark Answers the Call

February 25, 2020

South By Southwest Education Preview: 20 Sessions, Speakers & Surprises Worth Catching at SXSW 2020

February 20, 2020

Bernie Sanders Wins Nevada: How Las Vegas Teachers Helped the Candidate Score His Biggest 2020 Victory Yet

February 19, 2020

National School Choice Week

For Maverick Polly Williams, the Mother of School Choice, The Point Was Always to Empower Parents and Improve Education for Black Children

Robin V. Harris

January 28, 2020

National School Choice Week

Mothers of Invention: Frustrated With the Educational Status Quo and Conventional Parent Organizing, Two Latinas Gave Birth to a National Parents Union

January 27, 2020

Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice: Kindergartner’s Cookie & Cocoa Stand Paid Lunch Debt for 123 Schoolmates — and She’s Not Stopping There

January 6, 2020

Designing a School Around Project-Based Learning: How NYC’s Portfolio School Reconceived Its Campus With PBL — and Intentionally Slow Growth — in Mind

December 8, 2019

19 Educators We’re Thankful We Met in 2019: Meet the Inspiring Classroom Heroes We Couldn’t Stop Raving About This Year

November 30, 2019

Florida Teacher’s Kindness Squad Spreads Joy, Prevents Bullying & Teaches Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom, in School and Beyond

November 5, 2019

A Manhattan High School Reframes How Slavery Is Taught Using The New York Times’s 1619 Project

November 5, 2019

Adorable: At Schools Across America, a New Halloween Tradition — Students Choosing Teachers’ Costumes

Meghan Gallagher

October 30, 2019

Inside the Chicago Teacher Strike: Sights & Sounds From the First Days

Meghan Gallagher

October 18, 2019

10 Students, 10 Reasons Why They Skipped School Friday to Join the Climate March: ‘It’s Everyone Doing Something That Changes Everything’

September 20, 2019

Bharwani: This 14-Year-Old Just Published Her First Alexa Skill. She Used to Think She Wasn’t Good Enough. Now She Knows She Is Exceptional

Sabina Bharwani

September 8, 2019

Kansas Second-Grader Takes the Hand of a Child in Need on the First Day of School — and Captures the Nation’s Heart

September 4, 2019

WATCH — Back-to-School Tips for Parents: 11 Videos That Define, Demystify and Explain Complex Classroom Issues, Policies and Strategies

August 28, 2019

EduClips: Today's Top Education News

Monthly QuotED: 8 Notable Quotes That Made Education Headlines in August, From a Biden Gaffe to Teacher Pay — and Moms Who Are Cool About the Start of School

Andrew Brownstein

August 26, 2019

Florida Teacher’s Wedding Gift Wish List: School Supplies for Her District’s Students

August 18, 2019

Big Promises, Big Data: Is the SAT’s New ‘Environmental Context’ Score a Tool to Personalize College Admissions, or Another Impersonal Data Point?

August 14, 2019

WATCH: 74 Explains — What Is the New SAT ‘Adversity Score’? And What Does It Mean for Low-Income Students?

August 13, 2019

Meet Medi Teddy, a Bear That Hides Those Scary Hospital IV Bags and Tubes, and the 12-Year-Old Connecticut Girl Who Created It

August 11, 2019

‘Nudging’ Students to College Matriculation: How One School Network Is Using Text Messages to Combat Summer Melt and Ensure Alumni Make It to Their First Day on Campus

Lauren Costantino

In Second Debate, Democrats Leave Busing Behind, Focusing Instead on Education’s Role in Racial Strife ‘Happening Now’

Carolyn Phenicie

WATCH: Everything You Need to Know About Title I — and the $15 Billion It Directs to American Schools — in 2 Minutes

From Farmworkers to Physicians: Twin Mexican Immigrant Boys Grew Up to Become HS Valedictorians — and Just Graduated From Medical School

Cast Your Vote! Which Education Issue Do You Most Want to See Discussed and Debated by Democrats in Detroit?

Lauren Costantino

Supreme Court Will Hear Key School Choice Case Challenging Ban on Religious Schools Participating in Montana Tax-Credit Scholarship Program

Carolyn Phenicie

Supreme Court, Weighing In on Trump Plan to End Relief to Undocumented Immigrants, Agrees to Hear DACA Case

Mark Keierleber

Education Advocates Relieved but Wary as High Court Blocks Citizenship Question From Census, Removing Threat to Federal School Funding — for Now

Carolyn Phenicie

Charters, Child Care & More: 5 Ways Education Could Come Up at the Democratic Debates

Carolyn Phenicie

‘We Don’t Want to Feel Alone’: Inside a New Jersey Pride Prom, as LGBTQ Students Find Acceptance and a New Support Network — and Redefine the Royal Court

Lauren Costantino

These Kid Reporters at Scholastic Interview National and Global Leaders. Answering Their Questions This Week: Education Activist Ziauddin Yousafzai, Father of Malala

Watch: Student Who Couldn’t Speak Talks About Overcoming Challenges of Autism and Breaking Stereotypes in Rousing College Address

Tiffany Lagerstrom

Failure Is an Option: For Students at Iowa Big, Tests Come First, Learning From Experiences Follows

From Texas to Singapore, Senior Walks Are the New Tradition That’s Inspiring the Next Generation of Students — and Their Teachers

Brown v. Board at 65: The Untold Stories of the Plaintiffs & Families Who Changed America's Schools

The Untold Stories Behind Brown v. Board: 65 Years Later, Remembering the Five Unique Lawsuits and Communities That Joined Forces to Persuade the Supreme Court

Cheryl Brown Henderson

National Charter Schools Week

Langhorne: These 5 D.C. Charter Schools All Have the Same Mission but Couldn’t Be More Different

Emily Langhorne

In These Rural Schools, the Computer Science Teachers Are Volunteers Who Work for Microsoft, Amazon and Google. That’s Opening Doors for Their Students

New ‘Holistic’ Center on School Safety at Johns Hopkins Aims to Arm a Nation Anxious Over Shootings With Evidence, Best Practices

Mark Keierleber

Teaching Democracy: How One School Network Has Baked Civics & Activism Into Its DNA — and Produced Graduates Who Are More Likely to Vote

The B.A. Breakthrough

How Opening a High School on a Rural Peanut Field Altered the Arc of a NC Town — and Doubled the College Degrees in 5 Years

Richard Whitmire

Redefining the ‘American Dream’ for the Age of Automation: Are We Setting Kids Up to Fail by Selling an Outdated Vision of Success — and Ignoring What Research Says About Happiness?

Redrawing NCAA Brackets for Income Mobility: If the 2019 Tournament Were About Moving Students Up the Economic Ladder, We’d All Be Celebrating Villanova

Jorge Klor de Alva

‘School Choice Is the Black Choice’: Roland Martin Kicks Off Education Tour With Indianapolis Town Hall, Tough Questions About School Innovation & the Achievement Gap

December 2, 2018

WATCH: How EdFit Indiana Works Between Families and Schools of Choice to Ensure Students ‘Get In Where They Fit In’

November 26, 2018

WATCH: On Scene at the Mid-Atlantic Burn Camp, an Inspiring Escape for Young Burn Survivors

September 19, 2018

Teacher Appreciation Week: A Look Back at 18 Incredible (and Inspiring) Ways Students & Schools Celebrated Their Teachers Over the Past Year

Taylor Swaak & Laura Fay

This Week in Education Politics

The Week Ahead in Education Politics: SCOTUS Rulings Coming Soon, Melania Trump’s Latest Projects, Food Stamps vs. School Lunch & More

Carolyn Phenicie

Personalized Learning

Sketchbooks. Makerspaces. Student Startups. Inside America’s Largest Personalized Learning Experiment, How One Rhode Island ‘Lighthouse Laboratory’ Is Reimagining School

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