They smiled. Clearly, Emma had a system in place that was helping her achieve in all the right areas. She was having a great start to the year. Our parent–teacher evening was just before the first half term, but there...
Dayana said that stability has helped her learn English. “Because my English improved here. The teachers helped me a lot here.” Roughly 1.4 million U.S. pre-K-12 students experienced homelessness in the 2022-’23 school year, according to the latest federal data....
Declining confidence is common with all genders during puberty, according to Jane Mendle, an associate professor of psychology at Cornell University. Mendle, who studies the effects that puberty has on the mental health of adolescents, particularly girls, also said that...
“Early research showed that background knowledge plays a part,” said Kausalai Wijekumar, a professor of education at Texas A&M University, who has been studying reading instruction and recently produced a study that sheds more light on the debate. “People with...
Badzin talked to Life Kit about how to cultivate a mindset that can help you nurture old friendships — and the art of staying in touch. How would you define an old friend? I think a lot of us childhood,...
On March 6, the Trump administration announced a $10 million funding cut as part of broader budget and staffing cuts throughout CISA. That was ultimately negotiated down to $8.3 million, but the service still lost more than half of its...
NPR reached out to the U.S. Department of Education multiple times for comment about which federal grants are proposed for cuts, and the rationale behind efforts to shrink the federal role in schools. Officials there did not respond. In an...
When Devon B. was in the fourth grade, the elementary school she attended in Chatham, NJ, noted the wintry conditions about to develop and announced an early dismissal. It was noon and snowflakes had begun to fall, prompting the school...
“If it funds private school tuition, it’s a voucher,” says Josh Cowen, a professor at Michigan State University who, after studying vouchers for more than two decades, publicly opposes them. This federal proposal would reward people who make charitable donations...
As the researchers analyzed how students completed their work on computers, they noticed that students who had access to AI or a human were less likely to refer to the reading materials. These two groups revised their essays primarily by...
