As more special education students join general classrooms, teacher training programs are adapting with inclusive strategies and dual-licensure degrees. The goal: to prepare all educators to support every learner from the start.
More than 7,000 federal contracts have been canceled, though details beyond projected savings are scarce. One terminated program, Charting My Path for Future Success, had helped students with disabilities transition from high school to college or the workforce.
The Trump administration promised to preserve legally protected formula funding for schools, but is cutting nearly all the data experts who determine which schools qualify—raising doubts about how the grants will be properly distributed.
Alabama is the only state where 4th-grade math scores have improved since 2019. A district credits its success to reimagined math instruction and investing COVID relief funds in hands-on learning tools.
Two recent school shootings are highlighting what extremism researchers see as a growing—and poorly understood—trend among young people who embrace mass violence.
Peggy Carr, the federal official who leads one of the country's most extensive student testing programs, known as The Nation's Report Card, was placed on administrative leave by the Trump administration.
U.S. students were still nearly half a grade level behind in both math and reading in the spring of 2024, compared with achievement levels before the pandemic, according to the Education Recovery Scorecard, a data-rich deep dive into student learning.
President Trump and Republicans have also voiced a desire to use their congressional majorities to overhaul higher education and create a federal tax credit program that would help families nationwide pay for private schooling.
For many young students, school feels like a lifeline. Now, they’re feeling displaced, and yearning to return to see their friends and get back to learning. Some school are opening in phases.
Children with disabilities are far more likely to be subject to restraint or seclusion, suspended, expelled, referred to law enforcement or arrested at school, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s most recent civil rights data collection.
Of the 14 experts NPR consulted for a recent NPR poll, the Biden administration got no A's, a bunch of B's, two B-/C+'s, two C's, two D's, two F's and one "incomplete" for work left unfinished. That averages out to be a C.
"Study after study is showing that there's no harm to being included, but there's great risks of harm to being segregated," says Jennifer Kurth, a professor of special education at the University of Kansas.
Only 1 in 4 adults now says a four-year degree is extremely or very important to get a good job, according to Pew Research Center. Nearly two-thirds of 14- to 18-year-olds say their ideal education would involve learning skills on the job—as in apprenticeships—according to a survey by the ECMC Group.
NPR The Supreme Court declined to review a Boston school admissions policy reserving seats for top GPA students in each neighborhood. This is the second time the court has avoided intervening in geographically based admissions since its 2023 ruling against affirmative action.
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