In “A Plan to Fund High School Newspapers Seeks to Revive Student Journalism,” Claire Fahy writes about efforts to expand journalism opportunities in New York City public schools.
“We have pushed high school students into maximizing every part of their days and nights,” Tim Donahue, a high school English teacher, writes in the guest essay “High Schoolers Need to Do Less So That They Can Do Better.” “We need to let them slow down.”
Students across New York City are waiting up to an hour for school buses as a driver shortage and conflict over a contract hamstring the city’s ability to find a solution.
Oklahoma’s schools superintendent announced in June that every teacher in the state would be expected to teach the Bible. As schools open, there’s little evidence they have changed their curriculums or teaching.
When Vice President Kamala Harris picked Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate this month, the issue of “universal school meals” entered the spotlight because last year, Mr. Walz signed a bill that allowed public schools to provide all students with free breakfast and lunch.
The state is adding restrictions meant to make lockdown drills less scary for children, and will also require schools to notify parents about the exercises ahead of time.
Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.
Interviews with more than two dozen teachers, pediatricians and early childhood experts depicted a generation less likely to have age-appropriate skills—to be able to hold a pencil, communicate their needs, identify shapes and letters, manage their emotions or solve problems with peers.
Districts across the country must make tough decisions about cuts that will affect millions of families as soon as the next school year. The cuts, which many districts put off during the pandemic, could interrupt the recovery of U.S. students.
Voters recalled a Southern California school board president after his conservative majority approved policies on critical race theory and transgender issues.
When it comes to banning cellphones in schools, success could be determined by the details. Do bans apply only to classrooms, or also to hallways, bathrooms and cafeterias, where students are much more likely to be absorbed in TikTok or text messages?
The tactics for attacking segregation today are different from those employed in school districts generations ago. Across the city, some local districts and schools are trying other ways to mix student bodies without explicitly using race, as a way to avoid limits created by past Supreme Court cases.
When Nathanael was in kindergarten, he told his mother, Diana Lopez, that he did not want to return to school—ever. His teacher yelled at him, he said. And when Ms. Lopez picked him up from school, he would often immediately start to cry.
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