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Of all the pastimes the older folks among us acquire a taste for, concerning themselves with what the next generation of children will make of themselves is always in fashion.

About half of K-12 public school students started this fall behind their grade level in at least one subject, most commonly reading or math, according to new federal data released Thursday.

The digital curriculum provider Imagine Learning is acquiring a special needs-focused organization in a new effort to help struggling learners.

American leaders have emphasized the need to improve performance inscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. Instead of focusing on federal solutions and increasing federalspending policymakers and the private sector should refocusattention on systemic education reforms at the state, local, andschool levels to dramatically increase the number of students whosucceed in STEM fields at school and in the workforce.

Advanced Placement classes and Pell grant-funded college classesare two ways that bright, low-income high school students can earncollege degree credits. But AP classes are costly for the schooldistrict, may duplicate existing community resources, and can reachrelatively few low-income students while Pell grants arecost-effective, offer more course variety, and can serve a greatnumber of needy students.

As students are suffering from pandemic learning loss, a new study shows children in the U.S. are more than 100 times less likely to die from COVID than adults.

STATELINE, Nev. — National Assessment of Educational Progress testing scores across the United States have been on the decline since the onset of COVID-19, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics and a group...

While proponents of universal preschool often cite the findings ofsmall, high intervention preschool programs, it is unlikely thatany large-scale implementation of universal preschool could mimictheir conditions and would thus fail to produce the resultspromised by proponents. Despite considerable taxpayer investmentsfor universal preschool in Georgia and Oklahoma, neither state hasexperienced significant improvement in students' academicachievement.

Colorado educators are feeling under stress, undervalued, and unsafe, and the result is an education system that’s in “dire straits.” Those are some of the main takeaways from the Colorado Education Association’s 2023 State of...

Karen Hall, a teacher’s assistant in Fayetteville’s elementary school, helps her first-graders learn how to read, focusing on helping them learn words like “the,” “to,” and “my.” Her favorite part