Education

Students are increasingly running for voting positions on school boards on a climate agenda. They are helping push schools to cut energy use, swap out diesel buses for electric and add climate change to the curriculum.

Nelsestuen: If schools are to improve so they can more successfully serve students, what better way than to involve students directly in the process?

Employer-sponsored child care can alleviate worker’s child care stress, but it cannot solve the child care crisis.

The devastation of child marriage effectively ends a girl’s childhood. How? Forced marriage robs a girl of her education and more, replacing lessons learned in the classroom with adult responsibilities, including forced…

With nearly half a million undocumented students in college, dream resource centers should be on every campus.

“Even relatively short commutes on school buses can dominate students’ daily air pollution exposures,” says Meredith Pedde.

It’s no secret that women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, fields. Nationally, in 2019, women made up 48% of the workforce, but just 27% of STEM workers.…

Across the nation, leading institutions and organizations are identifying pathways as a core component of a thriving economy and a missing piece from the K-12 experience.

Each time an alert to boil water was issued, unexcused absence rates in Jackson’s public schools increased between 1% and 10%.

Dozens of states have recently adopted or introduced laws or policies that take aim at critical race theory, commonly known as CRT. Critics say the orders threaten to undo years-long attempts to enrich lessons about the history of Native American students whose culture is at risk of vanishing from…

Enrollment trends for community colleges are headed in the right direction, but in most cases have not caught up to pre-pandemic levels…

States are spending more money and creating new incentives to ease the severe child care crisis…