Schools confront a new reality: They can’t count on federal money

ASHE COUNTY, N.C. — In the time it took to read an email, the federal money vanished before Superintendent Eisa Cox’s eyes: dollars that supported the Ashe County school district’s ...

Posted 2025-09-18 05:00:00

Students, schools race to save clean energy projects in face of Trump deadline

Tanish Doshi was in high school when he pushed the Tucson Unified School District to take on an ambitious plan to reduce its climate footprint. In Oct. 2024, the availability of federal tax ...

Posted 2025-09-11 05:00:00

OPINION: Higher education has been under attack. Here’s a new way to fight back and help today’s students  

Today’s colleges face an uncertain future and need to be more relevant and more connected to the world of work to thrive.   The liberal arts, which have evolved throughout history to ...

Posted 2025-09-10 05:00:00

A window into America’s high schools slams shut

This story was reported by and originally published by APM Reports in connection with its podcast Sold a Story: How Teach Kids to Read Went So Wrong. The choices you make as a ...

Posted 2025-09-10 05:00:00

OPINION: Let’s move past bad report cards and toward new approaches to help students thrive in a rapidly changing world 

America’s future is not made in factories or innovation labs — it’s forged in classrooms. We can’t bring good jobs back to U.S. shores if we don’t first educate a workforce capable of ...

Posted 2025-09-10 15:38:01

STUDENT VOICE: What National Endowment for the Humanities cuts mean for high schoolers like me

In April, the Trump administration announced drastic funding cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities. Those cuts are harming education groups that rely on NEH grants — and students ...

Posted 2025-09-16 05:00:00

OPINION: Head Start ‘changed our lives’: A newly minted Ph.D. reflects on why this program must be saved 

The first words I uttered after successfully defending my dissertation were, “Wow, what a ride. From Head Start to Ph.D.!” Saying them reminded me where it all began: sitting cross-legged ...

Posted 2025-09-16 05:00:00

Lawsuit saves massive reading experiment

This story was reported by and originally published by APM Reports in connection with its podcast Sold a Story: How Teach Kids to Read Went So Wrong. The Zoom call was supposed to ...

Posted 2025-09-09 05:00:00

Behind the latest dismal NAEP scores

The National Assessment for Educational Progress, called NAEP or the Nation’s Report Card, has long been considered the gold standard for understanding how American students are doing. So bad ...

Posted 2025-09-15 10:00:00

OPINION: The push to expand school choice is reshaping the landscape of American education, but leaving behind fundamental democratic values 

From Texas to Florida to Arizona, school voucher policies are reshaping the landscape of American education. The Trump administration champions federal support for voucher expansion, and many ...

Posted 2025-09-15 05:00:00