How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

SUPAI, Ariz. — Kambria Siyuja always felt like the smartest kid in Supai.  Raised by educators in this tribal village at the base of the Grand Canyon, she started kindergarten a little ...

Posted 2025-02-22 06:00:00

Little school on the prairie: How keeping school land wild can combat climate change

HOUSTON — When Jefferson Early Learning Center first opened on the corner of a busy intersection in the city’s west side in 2022, school officials started receiving calls from irritated ...

Posted 2025-02-20 06:00:00

Posted 2025-02-19 16:00:00

The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren’t always getting

ATLANTA — Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and ...

Posted 2025-02-19 06:00:00

Districts are spending big on schools tailor-made for 4-year-olds

HOUSTON — Jefferson Early Learning Center bears little resemblance to elementary schools many adults recall attending in their earliest years. The classrooms have child-sized boats and ...

Posted 2025-02-18 06:00:00

America’s kids are still behind in reading and math. These schools are defying the trend

This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. Math is the subject sixth grader Harmoni Knight finds hardest, but that’s changing. In-class tutors and ...

Posted 2025-02-11 06:00:00

‘Golden ticket to job security’: Trade union partnerships hold promise for high school students

DANVERS, Mass. — It’s a rainy fall day in New England, but that doesn’t stop a group of students at Essex Tech North Shore Agricultural & Technical High School from donning work boots ...

Posted 2025-02-11 06:00:00

Colleges rebrand humanities majors as job-friendly 

TUCSON, Ariz. — Olivia Howe was hesitant at first to add French to her major in finance at the University of Arizona, fearing that it wouldn’t be very useful in the labor market. Then her ...

Posted 2025-02-11 11:00:00

DOGE’s death blow to education studies

A virtual wrecking ball took aim last Monday at the relatively small, wonky corner of the Department of Education that I write about every week: evaluation studies and data collection. The ...

Posted 2025-02-17 11:00:00

STUDENT VOICE: Humanities are in trouble in the state of Florida. We need a shift in culture

I’ve always known my educational goals: enroll in college as a humanities major, explore the literature I love and eventually attend law school. I’m a junior in college now, closer to the end ...

Posted 2025-02-17 06:00:00