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

Big Oil should help foot the bill for lost school time, students say

Last January, Diego Sandoval’s high school in San Diego County closed abruptly one Friday because of wildfires menacing the Southern California area. Classmates evacuated their homes as the ...

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