Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education office

Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy ...

Posted 2025-10-17 17:41:54

Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education department

Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy ...

Posted 2025-10-17 17:41:54

Getting preemies the help they need

Every year, tens of thousands of infants are born prematurely, at a low birthweight, or with other conditions that would make them automatically eligible for therapeutic services that could help ...

Posted 2025-10-16 19:25:10

As more question the value of a degree, colleges fight to prove their return on investment

This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission.  WASHINGTON – For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at ...

Posted 2025-10-16 05:00:00

NJ advisory group to probe how students with disabilities are separated from their peers 

In New Jersey, fewer than half of 6- and 7-year-olds in special education spend the vast majority of their day with their classmates without disabilities. That might change, though, because a ...

Posted 2025-10-15 05:00:00

Posted 2025-10-08 19:30:08

Red school boards in a blue state asked Trump for help — and got it

MEAD, Wash. — A few weeks after President Donald Trump took office, the conservative school board leaders in this town near the Idaho border made a bet.  They would pit one Washington ...

Posted 2025-10-14 05:00:00

STUDENT VOICE: Learning to debate is an important facet of education, but too often public school students are left out 

Ever since I first stepped onto the debate stage, I have been passionate about speech and debate. For the last three of my high school years, I have competed and placed nationally at major ...

Posted 2025-09-30 05:00:00

COLUMN: Trump’s push for ‘patriotic’ education could further chill history instruction

High school history teacher Antoine Stroman says he wants his students to ask “the hard questions” — about slavery, Jim Crow, the murder of George Floyd and other painful episodes that have ...

Posted 2025-10-07 05:00:00

Some social emotional lessons improve how kids do at school, Yale study finds

Social emotional learning — lessons in soft skills like listening to people you disagree with or calming yourself down before a test — has become a flashpoint in the culture wars.  The ...

Posted 2025-10-13 10:00:00