The Biden Administration—calling teacher shortages one of education's most "critical challenges"—is urging district leaders, higher education and states to collaborate to move more student-teachers into classrooms to speed K-12's recovery from the pandemic.
Federal judge rules that a new Virginia law allowing parents to opt children out of mask mandates cannot prevent 12 vulnerable students from seeking a "reasonable modification" that could require that their classmates wear masks.
Go back in time with us for a moment. At the end of 2020-21, the big instructional challenge facing schools seemed obvious: help students rebound academically as quickly as possible.
Bad weather used to be the main reason schools closed until COVID, and until social media—the latter of which is now closing classrooms far more regularly than is the pandemic.
A growing lack of confidence in K-12 principals—mainly among Republican voters—may only be the tip of the iceberg as yet more evidence of wider dissatisfaction with U.S. schools emerged Wednesday.
Bans on transgender athletes in girls' high school sports have swept through red states over the last year, but the wave hit a brick wall in Indiana and Utah.
More engaging summer school programs and the return of field trips were two key initiatives that emerged as Bibb County Schools decided how to spend the latest round of COVID relief funds.
