Math can be a path to success after prison

Hancy Maxis spent 17 years incarcerated in New York prisons. He knew that he needed to have a plan for when he got out. “Once I am back in New York City, once I am back in the economy, how ...

Posted 2025-03-07 06:00:00

How early ed is affected by federal cuts

Last month, my colleague Jill Barshay detailed potentially devastating cuts made to education research when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 89 contracts at the Institute ...

Posted 2025-03-06 06:00:00

Posted 2025-03-12 11:00:00

OPINION: During civic learning week, let’s push for national progress toward a more perfect union

Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes and honor to what has become the world’s longest-standing experiment in ...

Posted 2025-03-12 05:00:00

Coal plants are closing. For some schools, that means lost revenue and fewer jobs for graduates

CRAIG, Colo. — Noah Pike nearly had the money in hand. Growing up in Colorado’s coal belt, Pike constantly heard his father, uncles and both grandfathers talk about how much they earned in ...

Posted 2025-03-11 05:00:00

STUDENT VOICE: What losing the Department of Education would mean for special education

My family’s first and only move was for the sake of special education. My twin brother, Rohan, had just been diagnosed with profound nonverbal autism. We were 2 years old, and my parents ...

Posted 2025-03-11 05:00:00

Student loan borrowers misled by colleges were about to get relief. Trump fired people poised to help

Student loan borrowers who said their lenders overcharged them were days away from getting help when the Trump administration fired the federal workers who were set to step in. The workers, from ...

Posted 2025-03-04 20:00:00

Reading comprehension loses out in the classroom

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make ...

Posted 2025-03-10 10:00:00

10 lives, 5 years later: How the pandemic altered the futures of these parents, kids and educators

At first, it was supposed to last just a few weeks. Mayors and superintendents around the country announced schools would shut temporarily to halt the spread of a deadly virus that had officially ...

Posted 2025-03-10 05:00:00

Five years later, lots of kids are still behind at school — and life. How about yours?

Roughly five years have passed since schools shut down and turned to remote learning in the United States — but the pandemic’s toll on education lingers. Students are still behind where they ...

Posted 2025-03-10 05:00:00