A dismal report card in math and reading

The kids are not bouncing back.  The results of a major national test released Wednesday showed that in 2024, reading and math skills of fourth and eighth grade students were still ...

Posted 2025-01-29 05:01:00

Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

There’s a half-billion-dollar federal program that is supposed to help students with disabilities get into the workforce when they leave high school, but most parents — and even some school ...

Posted 2025-02-04 08:00:00

OPINION: Instead of panicking over test scores, let’s rethink how we measure learning and student success

Last week’s reaction to the dismal scores on the nation’s report card, also known as NAEP, was familiar: panic and calls for reform. Here’s an alternative response: Just say nope to NAEP. ...

Posted 2025-02-04 06:00:00

How Trump executive orders on immigration, transgender rights may affect schools

This story was produced by Chalkbeat and reprinted with permission. Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter. As President Donald Trump took office for a second time, he almost ...

Posted 2025-01-21 21:00:00

TEACHER VOICE: We can’t outpace AI, but we can still teach our students the value of writing

There’s no getting around it — it takes work to teach students how to write. And it takes work for them to do it. It involves knowing which ideas to reject and which to expand upon. It ...

Posted 2025-01-28 06:00:00

Posted 2025-02-03 06:00:00

OPINION: As diversity rates at elite colleges hang in the balance, some students still face increased exclusion and barriers

Diversity rates at several elite colleges and universities have plummeted, a little over a year after the Supreme Court’s restriction on race-conscious admissions. It’s a divisive but ...

Posted 2025-01-27 06:00:00

A researcher said the evidence on special education inclusion is flawed. Readers weighed in

I am always happy when my work generates a public discussion. That happened after a January column I wrote about a prominent scholar’s critique of the evidence for including children with ...

Posted 2025-01-27 11:00:00

COLUMN: In just one week, Trump created a new culture of anxiety in education

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump didn’t talk much about education during his reelection campaign, but he’s made up for it through a series of actions during his first week in ...

Posted 2025-01-27 21:30:00

Parents of premature babies struggle to get help their children are entitled to

JOLIET, Ill. — After several challenging and stressful months in the neonatal intensive care unit, Karen Heath couldn’t wait to take her triplet sons home. The boys had been born severely ...

Posted 2025-01-23 06:00:00