Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.

To raise awareness about the threats to teaching people's history, we offer an interactive pop-up display. Learn more and order a box to display at Pride festivals, bookstores, farmers's markets, scho...

“Generative 'AI' is here to stay." We hear this a lot. But a reminder: this is not a statement of fact. It is an assertion, but it is merely speculation. The future is unwritten – much to the constern...

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

People may accept bad behavior – even sexual assault – when they overestimate how acceptable their peers think it is. But there are ways to undermine this thinking and make intervention more likely.

Why the Title IX rollback reaches gay students, transgender students, and the kids other kids decide are different

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

I didn’t want to go to the wedding. I didn’t want to go anywhere but my couch.

Celebrities use the facade of neutrality as shelter, as a place to take refuge.

Alex Gibney’s movie has an unfortunate twist.

The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.

PHILADELPHIA—Suggesting that the nation was increasingly prioritizing speed and efficiency in speaking, a report released Tuesday by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that more Ameri...

Expertise is the condition that hides the mountain of learning. I am no longer climbing it, so I stopped seeing it.

If you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it.

All the assumptions my first courses in teacher prep are exploding in my face

A federal judge reasserted his 2023 ruling that the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent back for reconsideration. The law went into effect in March as the case proceeded.

Texas's Lieutenant Governor threatens public school librarians and educators over books in their schools.

Research on absenteeism often focuses on factors like unreliable transportation, overlooking what schools themselves can do to help kids maintain a steady attendance record.

The nation’s only detention center for families is routinely holding children beyond the 20-day limit, including an Iranian-born “average American kid” who’s been locked up for 123 days and counting.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

At the height of the pandemic, and ever since that time, many educators have been warning that lots of their colleagues have been leaving the classroom. And those of us who have been issuing…

If National Board officials don’t show compliance with state law, they risk Texas excluding educators with the credential from a pay-for-performance program.

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" offends right-wingers' notion that only white men make history.

Long-term effects of incorporating the technology into learning are still unknown, but inequalities are emerging

Districts will no longer be liable for "disparate impact"—in discipline, course access, or CTE programs.

Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.

As states increasingly shape curriculum, who decides what students learn? Explore why local control, transparency, and community voices matter.

The USPS is proposing a rule that would require states to share information about voters who request mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections.

The Texas State Board of Education is poised to vote on a new set of controversial social studies standards this week.

Opposition was most intense in rural counties. Texas is poised to be the No. 1 market for data centers in the U.S., with the most planned projects of any state.

AI schools try to tailor learning to match students’ abilities. But they can’t help young people learn who they are.