Education

Special education advocates are visiting lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week, urging them to dedicate more funding to student mental well-being and special education teacher shortages to improve outcomes for…

Recently, I found myself in Barnes and Noble, captivated by a “Read with Pride” display in the Young Adult section. Holding several new books for LGBTQ+ youth, I was transported…

As a Chalkbeat intern, I hope to amplify the experiences of students who struggled like I did without accommodations for ADHD. I have always needed to work 10 times harder…

In an era when partisan echo chambers have produced polarized public discourse and a politically aligned unwillingness to entertain inconvenient facts, clear investigative journalism is among the highest forms of public…

It is impossible to overstate the importance of education. Education unlocks opportunities, setting the foundation for economic, personal and social success. Above all, education is life saving. But delivering education is…

Soon after she had gone to jail for trying to get her children a better education by falsifying her family’s address, Kelley Williams-Bolar’s teenage daughter Jada confronted her mother with…

When the Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in support of the most significant new online safety rules for children in decades, it delivered a major victory for parents who blame the…

Up the West Coast in Washington state, some students want a bachelor’s degree to enter careers like teaching and nursing but don’t have a local four-year university to attend. Fortunately…

In mid-March, Bullard High School students Merrick Crowley and Craig Coleman, as part of an educator pathway program, taught an interactive science lesson for a fifth-grade class at Gibson Elementary…

Georgetown University researchers expect 15 million more good jobs for workers with four-year degrees will be created in the decade following 2021. The report outlines three pathways to good jobs…

The University of California, or UC, admitted a record number of California resident first-year students for the upcoming fall term, offering a spot to 93,920 of them, the university system…

More than three-quarters of Gen Z students agree there’s a stigma associated with going to vocational school and pursuing trade careers over a traditional four-year university, which may influence their…