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This Indiana Student Turned a High School Project Into Opportunity 鈥� and a Startup

Hannah Askew

Beware the Smart Use Divide in AI

Liz Cohen

Is a Master’s in Education Really Worth It? Probably Not, Research Shows

Chad Aldeman

Bonus Pay Gets Great Nurses Where They’re Needed Most. Why Not Teachers, Too?

Charles Barone & Andrew Epifanio

New Data Shows More Districts Are Adopting AI but Still Need a Coherent Strategy

Bree Dusseault & Jared Hurwitz

The Future of School Accountability Isn鈥檛 More Testing

David Nitkin

Are ‘Good’ Schools Good for All Students? The Answer Seems to Be Yes

Chad Aldeman

Schools That Are Good at Teaching Math Are Also Good in Reading 鈥� and Vice Versa

Chad Aldeman

Rethinking High School in RI, Where Academics & Career Training Go Hand-in-Hand

Tanya Paperny

For Students, Teachers Are the First Line of Defense from ICE. How They Can Help

Joanna Dreby & Willian D. Lopez

Public School Enrollment Is Declining 鈥� But Not Everywhere, or for All Students

Tara Moon

Summer Reading Can Help Boost Literacy. Why Don’t High Schools Require It?

Liz Cohen

How Do Kids in Top-Spending States Perform on NAEP? Not as Well as You’d Think

Chad Aldeman

Survey Finds Teens Worldwide Are Lost in the Transition After High School

Bruno V. Manno

How Standardized Exams Can Favor Privilege Over Potential

Zarrina Talan Azizova, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley & Jeongeun Kim

How Early Adopter Districts Are Moving Ahead Fast With AI 鈥斅燼nd Getting It Right

Nathan Kriha, Michael Berardino & Bree Dusseault

How Districts in Georgia, Maryland and D.C. Are Raising Reading Proficiency

David Wakelyn

Survey of 1,500 Kids Suggests School Phone Bans Have Important but Limited Effects

Justin D. Martin & Chighaf Bakour

Teacher Turnover Spiked During COVID. But It鈥檚 Now Fallen for 2 Years in a Row

Chad Aldeman

AI Shows Racial Bias When Grading Essays 鈥� and Can’t Tell Good Writing From Bad

Kennedy Smith

Beyond Test Scores: 186 Innovative Educators on How to Know a School Is Good

Chelsea Waite

Public School Pre-K Teachers Are Professionals, But Aren’t Treated That Way

Anna Shapiro, Elizabeth D. Steiner & Jill S. Cannon

New Research Finds Schools of Education Fail to Prepare Teachers to Use AI

Steven Weiner & Robin Lake

New Survey Finds Medicaid Cuts Would Devastate School Staffing and Services

Jessie Mandle & Lena O'Rourke

Teaching Science & Reading Together Yields Double Benefits for Learning

Susan M. Kowalski

BYU Is Tops in March Madness Bracket for Moving Grads Up the Economic Ladder

Jorge Klor de Alva

Why Parents of 鈥楾wice-Exceptional鈥� Children Choose Homeschool Over Public School

Rachael Cody

5 Years Later: My Pandemic Predictions on Learning Loss, Disengagement and More

Chad Aldeman

Student Well-Being, School Choice, Higher Ed Top Governors’ Priorities for 2025

Bella DiMarco

New Report: How Districts in 7 States Are Helping Chronically Absent Homeless Kids

Barbara Duffield & Cecelia Leong

Cash Transfers: A Proven Strategy to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families

K.C. Compton

Chronic Absenteeism Worst in Kindergarten, 9th and 12th Grades, State Data Shows

Bella DiMarco

Should Trump Be Taken Literally or Seriously on Closing Education Department?

Chad Aldeman

There Really Was a ‘Mississippi Miracle’ in Reading. States Should Learn From It

Chad Aldeman

Mend, Don’t End, the Institute of Education Sciences

Dan Goldhaber, Ashley Jochim, Robin Lake & Andrew J. Rotherham

Teen Girls’ Suicide Risk Is Rising. Sexual Identity Stress May Be a Factor

Joseph Cimpian & Mollie McQuillan

Standards Gap: Why Many Students Score Proficient on State Tests But Not on NAEP

Thomas Toch & Bella DiMarco

Chronic Absenteeism & Achievement Gap: Lowest NAEP Scorers Missed the Most Class

Liz Cohen

Which States Have the Fastest-Growing Achievement Gaps in 8th-Grade Math?

Chad Aldeman

Tech Aims to Reduce Teacher Burnout 鈥� But it Can Sometimes Make it Worse

David T. Marshall, Teanna Moore & Timothy Pressley

Time, Data, Flexible Materials: Making High-Quality Math Curriculum Work

Joel Rose & David Steiner

Across All Ages & Demographics, Test Results Show Americans Are Getting Dumber

Chad Aldeman

Public Schools Added 121,000 Employees in 2024 鈥� Even as They Served Fewer Kids

Chad Aldeman

Students Need Human Relationships to Thrive. Why Bots May Stand in the Way

Julia Freeland Fisher

The New Social Security ‘Fairness’ Act Is Neither Fair Nor Just

Chad Aldeman

40% of Chicago Teachers Are Chronically Absent. Those Gaps Carry Real Costs

Chad Aldeman

Why School Police Officers May Not Be the Most Effective Way to Prevent Violence

Monic Behnken

Fiscal Cliff, Learning Loss, Students to the Rescue: 15 Most-Read Essays of 2024

Bev Weintraub

Don鈥檛 Want to Close Underenrolled Schools? Here鈥檚 How to Make the Math Work

Marguerite Roza

School Closures Are Way Down, but Delaying These Hard Choices Makes Things Worse

Chad Aldeman

US Math Teachers View Student Performance Differently Based on Race and Gender

Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Ian Thacker & Joseph Cimpian

Three Reasons Why So Few Eighth Graders in the Poorest Schools Take Algebra

Jill Barshay

Why Teachers Don’t Use the High-Quality Instructional Materials They’re Given

David Steiner

What Happens When Large Numbers of Teachers Quit a School? And What Can Be Done?

Huriya Jabbar & Jennifer Holme

Big-City Districts Are Beset by Financial Dysfunction 鈥� and Kids Pay the Price

Marguerite Roza & Maggie Cicco

Chicago Is Running Out of Money. Its Teachers Union Wants 9% Raises Anyway

Chad Aldeman

Why Congress Should Extend Social Security to All Teachers

Chad Aldeman

Chicago Mayor’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Debt Plan for the District

Chad Aldeman

Chicago School Closures Offer a Cautionary Tale for Dealing With Fiscal Cliff

Thomas Toch & Maureen Kelleher

Kids in Poverty Often Lag in Reading. In St. Louis, They’re Even Further Behind

Chad Aldeman

Equity, Impact, Transparency: Rethinking Ed Vendor Contracts After ESSER

Patricia Burch

ESSER Post-Mortem: How Did Districts Spend $190B in Federal Funds? Did It Work?

Chad Aldeman

Study: State Report Cards Need Big Improvements in Tracking COVID Learning Loss

Morgan Polikoff

Does More Money Matter to Teachers? It鈥檚 Not a Simple Yes or No Question

Chad Aldeman

A 25-Year Study Reveals How Empathy is Passed from Generation to Generation

Jessica A. Stern & Joseph P. Allen

Time Poverty Hinders College Graduation, Especially for Students with Jobs, Kids

Claire Wladis

Hey, Students: Want a Good Job? Become a Teacher

Chad Aldeman

How a Real-Time Dashboard & Statewide Push Are Cutting Chronic Absenteeism in RI

Liz Cohen

Last Year, 200K Colorado Kids Used Open Enrollment to Pick Their District School

Jude Schwalbach

To Maximize the Impact of Curriculum Mandates, Follow the Science of Reading

Gary Willow

California Lost 420K Public School Kids in 4 Years 鈥� & May Drop 1M More by 2031

Chad Aldeman

When Was the Golden Age of American K-12 Education? And How Can We Tell?

Michael J. Petrilli

Is Public Education Actually Public? And How Important Is It for Democracy?

Chad Aldeman

How Districts Can Keep High-Impact Tutoring Going After ESSER Money Expires

Susanna Loeb & Alan Safran

Louisiana Pilot Program Tests New Kind of Reading Exam That Could Be a Model

Chad Aldeman

Good Student-Teacher Relationships Spiked During COVID. How to Get Them Back

Hunter Gehlbach & Li Li

How Does a School District Go Broke With $1.1B in Revenues? When It Spends $1.3B

Chad Aldeman

Investing in Education R&D Is Essential 鈥斅燼nd It’s Not Just About Numbers

Rachel Dinkes & Beth Boulay

Microschools Offer Montana Families Creative, Learner-Centered Education Options

Kerry McDonald

Interactive: In Many Schools, Declines in Student Enrollment are Here to Stay聽

Chad Aldeman

When Public Schools Keep Certain Students Out 鈥� or Make Them Pay to Attend

Jude Schwalbach

How Well Do Schools, Families Communicate? Study Sees Parent-District Disconnect

Jon Deane

Gaps Widening Between Indiana’s Highest- and Lowest-Performing Students

Chad Aldeman

Rural Students鈥� Access to Wi-Fi is in Jeopardy as Pandemic-Era Resources Recede

Gabriel E. Hales & Keith N. Hampton

Study: Lengthy School Closures Were Especially Hard on High-Achieving Students

Brandon L. Wright

4 Things Districts Should Do Right Now 鈥� Before the Fiscal Cliff

Chad Aldeman

189 Innovative School Leaders: Teacher Staffing, AI, Mental Health Top Ed Issues

Chelsea Waite

Game-Changing Automatic Enrollment Policies Win Our March Math-ness Bracket

Jim Cowen

5 Lessons From Civics in How to Achieve Agreement Across the Political Divide

Lor茅n Cox & Karen Nussle

Leadership Is Key, Autonomy Matters: Lessons in Why Tutoring Programs Work

Liz Cohen

Schools' New Normal Post-COVID Must Emphasize Attendance, Tutoring, Summer Class

Lindsay Dworkin

Slowdown in Health Care Expenses Is Saving School Districts Billions

Chad Aldeman

Introducing the March Mathness Tournament

Jim Cowen

Governors’ 2024 Education Priorities: Early Childhood, Curriculum, School Choice, Mental Health

Bella DiMarco

School Boards Face Their Most Difficult Budget Season Ever. Many Are Unprepared

Marguerite Roza & Laura Anderson

Interactive: See How Student Achievement Gaps Are Growing in Your State

Chad Aldeman

How ‘Bright Spot’ Schools in D.C., Delaware Are Getting Their Students Reading

David Wakelyn

Wrong Ideas about Teacher Pay, Happiness May Keep Students from the Profession

Chad Aldeman

Why the Rush toward Generative AI Literacy in K-12 Schools May Be Premature

Andrew Buher

With 160,000 Jobs Added in 2023, the State of the Education Workforce Is Strong

Chad Aldeman
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