Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter In late August, Virginia took the final steps in adopting a tougher but more honest school accountability system.
A school in Fairfax, Virginia, says student engagement has improved under cellphone restrictions introduced in a new pilot program. Teachers at Robinson Secondary School say they’re surprised by the d
The movement to restrict student cellphone use in schools gathered even more momentum when the California governor signed a law Sept. 23 that will require all public schools to develop and adopt cellp
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PHILADELPHIA — As a girl growing up here, Natalie McHugh used to play on the vast expanses of asphalt and concrete that coated the city’s schoolyards. She didn’t question as a student why there weren’
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter As a candidate for president in 2020, Kamala Harris introduced a plan to raise teacher salaries by $13,500. Why t
Monkeybusinessimages/iStock/Getty Images Plus You know the easiest way to tell that U.S. schools have gotten back to their prepandemic normal? It’s that when they’re in the news these days, it’s mostl
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By As poverty rates rise, reading proficiency rates tend to fall. Every state has a downward-sloping line like this. But it’s not fate. Districts, schools and students nationwide are outperforming wha
From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series “WTOP Goes
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter In March 2020, Richmond Public Schools closed for two weeks to do some deep cleaning to stop the spread of COVID-
As the new school year starts, a wave of new laws that aim to curb distracted learning is taking effect in Indiana, Louisiana and other states. Students caught violating a phone ban at Timber Creek Hi
Students returning to school in a growing number of states and districts are facing tight restrictions and outright bans on cellphone use as evidence mounts of the damaging impact persistent connectio
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Schools Alexandria City Public Schools' Standards of Learning results show improvements or similar results in the core subjects. Posted Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 9:42 am ET Alexandria City Public Schools s
Education Department Enables Deployment of Industry-Leading Platform at Applicable School Districts Regardless of Enrollment, Income, or Size of Tax Base PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ze
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Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected efforts by the Biden administration to temporarily put on hold a federa
Abstract In his dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote, “Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” Racial conservatives have
Arlington School Board members seem fully committed to implementing a stopgap strategy for limiting student-phone accessibility in class prior to the start the 2024-25 school year, now just weeks away
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The bottom line is troubling. Scores on an international math test fell a record 15 points between 2018 and 2022 — the equivalent of students losing three-quarters of a school year of learning. That f
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter At lunch last school year, sixth graders at Bayside Middle School in Virginia Beach could be heard shouting “Uno”
Is there a shortage of special education teachers in America’s public schools? If so, why? And how can policymakers fix it? The first question sounds like an easy one. Yes, there is a shortage of spec
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Donate Subscribe Contact Us Donate Subscribe Custom Search Sort by: Relevance Relevance Date Quick search above or Advanced Search ☰ Adult Education Adult education on K-12 campuses is so much more th
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Virginia’s board of education has approved a new system for how the state measures school success. The board has been looking at overhauling the system since 2022 in response to concerns from Gov. Gle
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Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Eighth graders remain a full school year behind pre-pandemic levels in math and reading, according to new test re
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter In a recent ABC News interview, New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks confirmed reports he is considering
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