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Breaking Up With Edtech Is Hard to Do

Shedding old edtech is a real pain, district experts say. Worse, student privacy may be at risk.

As More States Expand Child Care Programs, This Is One ...

One county in Maryland is garnering attention after a $10 million initiative to boost early childhood programs.

The Power of a School Lunch With SNAP Benefits in Limbo

“School students need to be well-nourished to be ready to learn.”

Schools Tapped Young Adults to Serve as Mental Health N...

One year into deployment of the national Youth Mental Health Corps, schools are seeing an impact in student behavior and attendanc...

Why Standards and Credentials Matter in Dual Enrollment

Dual enrollment is surging, offering high school students a way to earn college credit and reduce education costs at a time when t...

How Multi-Age Groups Changed My Teaching Forever

Children aren’t standardized, and diversity is an asset to learning and society.

Girls Are Scoring Worse Than Boys in Science and Math —...

A magic trick that nobody wanted: the reappearing gender gap in K-12 students’ science and math scores. Beset by problems and star...

Why ‘School Choice’ Doesn’t Feel Empowering to Many Fam...

In a new book about the dilemma of school choice in New York, a sociologist casts the Big Apple as a microcosm for the country wit...

Why I Stopped Believing Every Child Belongs in Every Cl...

What I learned about “school choice” and belonging from the student who loved me, and the student who didn’t.

After Years Reporting on Early Care and Education, I’m ...

Reporter Emily Tate Sullivan has been writing about early care and education since 2019. In this essay, she describes how, this ye...

How I Turned Our School’s Tech Lab Into a Space Where S...

A teacher reflects on creating a free summer program that empowers students through hands-on technology, mentorship and real-world...

Beyond Memorization: Redefining Rigor in the Age of AI

Ask a student to memorize a formula, and AI can do it faster. But ask them to apply it to a real-world problem, and that’s where t...