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Parents Should Have a Voice in Their Kids' Education But We've Gone Too Far
By Suzanne Nossel
Senators Urge More Forgiveness for Parents With Student Debt
By Katie Reilly
What Babies Need to Become Good Readers
By Maya Payne Smart
Public Libraries Face Threats to Funding and Collections as Book Bans Surge
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Here's How Much Progress Students Lost in the Pandemic
During the pandemic, American students saw some of the biggest declines in academic achievement recorded in the last 50 years
By Katie Reilly
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These States Could Tax Your Student Loan Forgiveness
Six states could tax student loan forgiveness, up to $985
By Katie Reilly
August 31, 2022
What Happens to Refinanced Student Loans Under Biden's Forgiveness Plan?
Many refinanced to relieve money stress in the first place.
By Megan McCluskey
August 26, 2022
Fact-Checking Biden’s Student Loan Plan
Will Biden’s new plan make inflation worse? Is it an abuse of executive power? Here’s what to know.
By Eric Cortellessa
August 26, 2022
How to Get Refund on Loan Payments You Already Made
Under the Biden Administration’s new debt forgiveness plan, eligible borrowers’ relief is capped at the amount of outstanding debt they owe.
By Katie Reilly
August 25, 2022
How Tutoring Could Fix Pandemic Learning Loss
In Tennessee, which has invested heavily in tutoring, students are still below pre-pandemic proficiency levels in math, but 30% of now meet grade-level expectations compared to 25% in 2021.
By Katie Reilly
August 25, 2022
Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Doesn't Do Enough for Black Americans
Biden's plan to cancel student debt is not a big or bold enough and it completely misses the mark for Black Americans
By Savala Nolan
August 25, 2022
Here's Who Qualifies for Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness
President Biden just announced he would cancel $20,000 in student loan debt for certain borrowers
By Anisha Kohli
August 24, 2022
African-American History Finally Gets Its Own AP Class
'Nothing is more dramatic than having the College Board launch an AP course in a field,' says Henry Louis Gates Jr., who helped develop the curriculum
By Olivia B. Waxman
August 22, 2022
Inside the Death of a Rural Daycare
The pandemic has led to tens of thousands of childcare workers leaving their jobs.
By Katie Reilly
August 19, 2022
How I Got My Students to Stop Staring at Screens
A teacher talks about helpful steps he's used to get kids off of their screens
By Phillip Done
August 19, 2022
The Great Reading Rethink
Reading proficiency rates in the U.S. are abysmal. Inside the massive effort to change the way kids are taught.
By Belinda Luscombe
August 11, 2022
Google, Apple Back Affirmative Action in Harvard Case
Businesses risk inflaming a conservative backlash against companies taking progressive stances.
By Maia Spoto and Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson / Bloomberg
August 1, 2022
Beyond the Founding Fathers: 12 Unsung Figures Who Helped Build America
From the brain behind the “We the People” clause in the U.S. Constitution, to a woman who risked her life holding loyalist soldiers prisoner during the Revolutionary War
By Olivia B. Waxman
July 1, 2022
Anti-'Critical Race Theory' Laws Are Working
Teachers say there's a 'chilling' effect on how they talk about race
By Olivia B. Waxman
June 30, 2022
Title IX Changes Avoid Trans Athlete Questions
The proposed reforms roll back many of the Trump Administration's changes.
By Katie Reilly and Madeleine Carlisle
June 23, 2022
Demand Rises for SROs—Despite the 'Abject Failure' in Uvalde
The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety called the police response to the Uvalde shooting “an abject failure,” and the school police chief has been put on leave.
By Katie Reilly
June 22, 2022
School Safety Measures May Not Prevent Mass Shootings
After the Uvalde school shooting, focus is shifting again to 'school hardening' to stop mass shooters. But there's little evidence it works
By Katie Reilly
June 15, 2022
Teachers Vent Grief and Fury After Uvalde Shooting
In the wake of the shooting in Uvalde, many educators who survived mass shootings feel like they’ve been left to deal with the problem on their own
By Katie Reilly
June 2, 2022
Schools Reinstate Mask Mandates as COVID-19 Rises
School districts in Philadelphia, Providence, R.I., and Brookline, Mass., are requiring students and staff to wear masks again—though they are the exception, rather than the rule
By Katie Reilly
May 25, 2022
How Buffalo Schools Are Grappling With the Racist Attack
Fatima Morrell, the associate superintendent for culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives in Buffalo public schools, says it’s important for schools to play a role in teaching students to combat racism, while offering social-emotional support for those who are grieving
By Katie Reilly
May 21, 2022
What We Know About Biden's Plan to Forgive Student Loans
It's clear that whatever Biden does will be short of the $50,000 loan forgiveness championed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others—if he chooses to cancel debt at all
By Katie Reilly
May 11, 2022
What Will Harvard's Slavery Report Actually Change?
More universities are acknowledging their historical connections to slavery. But in many cases, they're stopping short of what students want
By Katie Reilly
May 5, 2022
How 'Social and Emotional Learning' Became the Newest Battleground in the Classroom Wars
The longstanding educational concept has recently drawn backlash. Here's what 'social and emotional learning' really means
By Katie Reilly
April 27, 2022
Florida’s Governor Just Signed the 'Stop Woke Act.’ Here’s What It Means for Schools and Businesses
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Friday that aims to regulate how schools and businesses address race and gender, the state’s latest effort to restrict education about those topics. The law, which has become...
By Katie Reilly
April 22, 2022
Why California Is Delaying Its Vaccine Mandate for Schools
California was the first state to announce that children would be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend school
By Katie Reilly
April 15, 2022
Culture Wars Could Be Coming to a School Board Near You
School board elections have become more competitive and contentious as candidates battle over national partisan issues like critical race theory, book bans, and COVID-19 rules
By Katie Reilly
March 23, 2022
How War Affects Russian and Ukrainian Students in the U.S.
Amid calls to protect Ukrainian students in the U.S., some colleges are cutting ties with Russian schools and companies, and one lawmaker suggested expelling Russian students from the country
By Katie Reilly
March 3, 2022
Black Families Rejecting White-Washed History Turn to Homeschooling
Homeschooling increased nationwide after the pandemic disrupted in-person learning, and the increase was most significant among Black families
By Katie Reilly
February 28, 2022
How America Educated Children of Nazis after World War II
Within just a few years after the end of World War II, the U.S. went from fighting the Nazi party to inviting some of its scientists and their families to live and work in America....
By Olivia B. Waxman
February 24, 2022
What Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill Could Mean for LGBTQ Kids
On Tuesday night, President Joe Biden took to Twitter to condemn a controversial bill that’s swiftly moving through the Florida legislature. The proposed law, often referred to by critics as “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, bans...
By Madeleine Carlisle
February 9, 2022
The Pandemic Is Adding to Public School Enrollment Woes
Public school enrollment dropped 3% in the 2020-21 academic year compared with 2019-20, in part because of upheavals arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
By Katie Reilly
February 9, 2022
Restricting China Ties a 'Huge Mistake' Warns U.S. Scholar
Brown University president Christina Paxson calls for "academic freedom and openness and exchange of knowledge"
By Henry Ren / Bloomberg
February 3, 2022
Why Toni Morrison Books Are Frequent Targets of Book Bans
In Florida's Polk County, Nobel Literature Prize-winner Toni Morrison’s novels The Bluest Eye and Morrison's Beloved were among 16 books "quarantined"—taken off shelves in public school libraries "so a thorough, thoughtful review of their content...
By Olivia B. Waxman
January 31, 2022
Schools Rethink History Lessons Amid Anti-Asian Racism
New Jersey and Illinois are the first states to require teaching of Asian American history in schools
By Katie Reilly
January 24, 2022
A New Report Finds That 45 States Are 'Failing' to Teach Students About the Period That Shaped Race Relations After the Civil War
In the aftermath of the insurrection a year ago at the U.S. Capitol, many leading historians drew parallels between the violence and the Reconstruction era, the period of political revolution directly following the American Civil...
By Olivia B. Waxman
January 12, 2022
Why So Many Black Teachers Are Leaving the Classroom
Black teachers are leaving the profession at faster rates than white teachers as they face pushback over efforts to discuss racism in the classroom and deal with pandemic-related stress
By Sarah Carr/The Hechinger Report
January 5, 2022
Cheugy, Murraya and Critical Race Theory: The Words That Defined 2021
Looking back at 2021, the year was characterized by the challenges and joys of the world opening up again after a year of uncertainty and social distancing. (And then, in recent weeks, locking back down...
By Cady Lang
December 29, 2021
The Best Holiday Gifts to Give Teachers This Year
The last few years have been rough, especially for teachers. From learning how to teach remotely to navigating COVID-19 protocols, educators have shouldered the pandemic’s burden often without complaint. To show the teachers and school...
By Melissa Locker
December 6, 2021
SCOTUS Hears Major Religious Freedom Case on Maine Schools
Amy and David Carson were high school sweethearts. They met at Bangor Christian Schools, a private religious K-12 school in Bangor, Maine, when they were in their early teens. Their siblings attended the school. Family...
By Madeleine Carlisle and Katie Reilly
December 6, 2021
Inside Mystic Valley and the Debate Over America's Classroom
Eric Henry couldn’t believe what the 5th-graders at his triplets’ school were being assigned to read. On Jan. 31, the electrical engineer and Navy veteran fired off an email to a group of fellow parents...
By Molly Ball/Malden, Mass.
November 22, 2021
How Schools Are Struggling With a Substitute Teacher Shortage
'It's an all-hands-on-deck process' says a school superintendent who had to step in to teach gym recently
By Katie Reilly
November 22, 2021
Librarians Grapple With Conservatives’ Latest Efforts to Ban Books
On Nov. 8, two members of a Virginia school board called for a book burning. During a board meeting that evening, the Spotsylvania County Public School Board unanimously ordered its school libraries to begin removing...
By Olivia B. Waxman
November 15, 2021
Why Schools Are Paying Kids to Get Vaccinated
From New York to Los Angeles, schools are rewarding kids as young as 5 with $100 gift cards and other rewards if they get COVID-19 vaccines
By Katie Reilly
November 5, 2021
Inside Amherst College's Decision to End Legacy Admissions
Evidence from other colleges suggests that Amherst College could see more low-income and first-generation students as it ends legacy admissions
By Katie Reilly
October 22, 2021
Critics Say Academic Freedom Is at Risk Under New Tenure Rules
The revisions, which could make it easier to fire faculty who fall short in performance reviews, come at a time of heightened tensions on college campuses over what professors should — and should not—be allowed to teach.
By Katie Reilly
October 21, 2021
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