Here’s what to know about how a Supreme Court ruling to end or narrow birthright citizenship could change the education landscape. Public schools can’t turn students away because of their immigration status All children, regardless of immigration status, have the...
“Instead of providing relief to 43 million Americans who are drowning in student debt,” Sanders said in a statement to NPR, “the Trump administration has made it harder for them to understand how much they owe and how long it...
Her main message to her fellow researchers: You’re not doing enough. Rebuilding IES won’t happen, she warned, without broad public pressure. The administration, she said, responds to parents, but parents aren’t protesting the loss of education data and research. She...
“I prefer writing in cursive,” Halle said. The pair are proud members of the Holmes Middle School cursive club in Virginia. Cursive has been on the upswing for years now. More than two dozen states now require cursive instruction in...
Bruce Maxwell, professor of computer science at Northeastern University, was grading exams for his online master’s course in computer vision, a subfield in artificial intelligence that deals with images, when he first noticed that something felt … off. “I’d see...
The shortage of child care teachers is a well-known problem, but a lack of qualified substitute teachers doesn’t always get as much attention. Legally, centers are required to maintain a certain number of adults for the children they have in...
Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee started reforms later and may need more time. But McGrath’s question remains. Researchers and literacy advocates point to a common answer: early reading reforms focused on phonics, which helped students decode words, but decoding alone is...
The parent community also wanted more skilled trades and culinary arts in the day-to-day curriculum, Laho said. For example, parents noted the slow decline in shop classes offered in public schools, so Copper Island made a concerted effort to bring...
And in the process, they’ve found easier and more effective ways for parents to handle the tsunami of temptations in children’s lives. Focusing on willpower can backfire Willpower is the ability to resist a temptation right in front of you,...
“For all the reorganizing that’s going on, there is an awareness that IES is performing a unique service to the country, and we need to be thoughtful about its next steps,” Northern said. Northern said she met with 400 people...
