Education

New York City Council members will soon call on the city’s Education Department to broaden access to newspapers and journalism at high schools across the five boroughs. Council members are…

Flerentin “Flex” Jean-Baptiste missed so much school he had to repeat his freshman year at Medford High outside Boston. At school, “you do the same thing every day,” said Jean-Baptiste,…

Project 2025 — you might be hearing about it and its potential effects. Vice President Kamala Harris brought it up Tuesday during her first campaign event as the presumptive Democratic…

Before the COVID pandemic magnified the vast inequities that exist within our education system and spurred an education renaissance that rapidly spread across the country, the quest to reimagine what…

As educators, it can feel like a new AI tool is introduced daily and there is pressure to use new tools just to keep up with the times. What if,…

The premise of “free college” programs popping up around the country in recent years is that bringing the price of higher education down to nearly nothing will spur more students to enroll…

In a small rural town along Belfast Bay, a host of Maine teenagers spent the start of one summer break “LARPing,” battling with lightsabers while re-enacting an epic Star Wars…

Research shows that in the short term, grades do indeed improve learning outcomes…on standardized tests. But when it comes to retaining information, thinking critically, recalling concepts later on, and applying…

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved, 25-3, an $80 billion funding plan for the U.S. Department of Education in fiscal year 2025, or about $1 billion more than the current…

Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most people think of when they imagine…

Bloomberg Philanthropies is donating $600 million to the nation’s four historically Black medical schools to help strengthen their endowments and diversify the medical field, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Howard University’s College…

Grading practices in U.S. schools are antiquated and “out of step” with other contemporary K-12 efforts, according to a study published last month by the Equitable Grading Project, a nonprofit…