Cellphone bans can help kids learn — but Black students are suspended more as schools make the shift

Thirty states now limit or ban cellphone use in classrooms, and teachers are noticing children paying attention to their lessons again. But it’s not clear whether this policy — unpopular with ...

Posted 2025-10-20 10:00:00

OPINION: We cannot let higher education become a gated community for the wealthy, but that’s exactly where it is headed

Washington lawmakers and the Trump administration passed a major legislative package this summer that will cut funding for programs that help students from low-income backgrounds — making it ...

Posted 2025-10-20 05:00:00

After years of quietly falling, college tuition is on the rise again

Summer usually provides a respite for Connor Pavlicko from his duties as student body president at Slippery Rock University. But this summer, he was bombarded by classmates demanding to know why ...

Posted 2025-10-13 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

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

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