Any high school can apply for the grants. Five schools will be selected to receive $500,000 each from XQ to redesign their schools. The money can be used to implement the new high school design, which might call for changing the class schedule, using technology in new ways or expanding career and technical opportunities.

The booming economy means a shortage of school bus drivers in many parts of the country. In Maine, the situation was so bad one school had to cancel classes for a day.

StudySync announced its content partnership with The Players' Tribune. Through the partnership, StudySync is incorporating first-person narratives from a set of international athletes into its core StudySync ELA curriculum, as well as its Blasts assignments.

How can classroom teachers give students opportunities to develop an innovation mindset and build these important skills? Model the mindset, implement project-based learning or challenge-based learning, and share news about innovation related to your subject area in your classroom.

A new report from Michigan State University analyzed long-term education spending trends. The report found that in every state but two—Michigan and West Virginia—education revenue increased from 1995 to 2015. But it is often assumed that this additional spending will be good for students, but the data suggest that increased funding by itself has little relationship to student achievement growth.

getAbstract is now offering free access to its online library to students over the age of 16. Students will have access to a growing database of 18,000 abstracts covering topics such as career planning, economics, business, management, science, technology and politics.

A long road lies ahead for a North Dakota bill that proposes paying off school district debt and funding new or the expansion of common school and rural property facilities with assets from the Common Schools Trust Fund.

How do closures affect students' academic performance? In many places, closures hurt students academically; in some others, they helped, studies have found. Nationwide, closures appear to slightly lower test scores. And it really matters the quality of the school displaced students end up moving to.