Economic Opportunity

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…

Edgar Cordova, a rising 12th grader at Xavier High School in Union Square, has spent his summer working in a school kitchen — bagging milk, cleaning tables, and cutting up…

Free, short-term non-college pathways to STEM careers at the Marcy Lab School and Hack the Hood prepare underrepresented students for jobs in tech. About one and a half years ago,…

Seven months since the House passed a bill that would have expanded the child tax credit, the Senate has killed it. In Thursday’s long-awaited conclusion to a debate that was supposed…

Districts used summer programs to address academic lags following the pandemic but anticipate curbing them as federal COVID-19 funding dries up. Some 55% of K-12 parents said their children attended…

Several responses to this year’s survey regarding confidence in higher education indicate that the “current state of higher education is trending downward,” according to the report’s authors. For instance, just…

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…

For lack of a washing machine, a seventh-grader was nearly lost. This student, who lives in temporary housing in the Bronx, missed the first two weeks of class. When his mother…

In one experiment, students were given the choice to make their own attendance mandatory. Contradicting common faculty beliefs, 90% of students in the initial study chose to do so, committing…

Prompted by declining enrollment and the impending loss of federal pandemic relief funding, school districts nationwide are wrestling with whether to close schools — and, if so, how many. Seattle…