"Everybody's leading with their hearts, and we're going to be balancing that with our spreadsheets," said Julia Welle Ayres, Hennepin County's director of housing development, as the county looks to ...
Walking into Windsor Park elementary in Corpus Christi, Texas, it’s hard to miss the mass of bright, colorful paper balloons taped on the wall, displaying photos of dozens of children who have read at ...
Opinion

EDITORIAL: Population bombed

What has the world's population climbed to now? We remember reading that it recently surpassed 8 billion souls. After we Googled, it turns out the number of people on the planet is up to 8.2 billion ...
The newly empowered district will have to raise taxes by nearly 5 percent per year while schools are seeing more poverty, homelessness and non native English speakers among students.
Several South Williamsport School District parents voiced concerns after they received a letter informing them that PSSA and/or Keystone Test results at the Junior/Senior High School were within the ...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is known as the nation’s report card. But as more students leave public schools, the test risks becoming less representative of the nation’s students.
Teachers at Madison School in South Holland and Northwest School in Evergreen Park were nominated for Golden Apple awards for Excellence in Teaching.
We're all bound to have moments when we feel like we have absolutely no intelligence compared to others, especially when the ...
Phonics gets kids in the door to literacy. But proper later reading instruction—which can be fueled by school choice—can carry them further.
Andrea Breard, professor of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) in Erlangen, Germany, speaks at the International Symposium on Young Sinologists and Mutual Learning Among ...
Testing for younger kids is less common, so the NWEA report offers insights into the depth of the academic disruption. It’s based on assessments given to students in the 2024-25 school year.
Austrian elementary school students are improving, as shown by the first nationwide results report from the iKM-Plus ...