More parents are taking kids out of school for off-peak travel, challenging the long-held ideal of perfect attendance. Educators warn the trend could worsen inequities, while families argue real-world trips offer valuable learning.
Students learn technical skills from the nature of the curriculum, as well as digital fluency skills from engaging with those courses in a digital format.
Rural school districts are losing mental health and enrichment programs after the Trump administration cut federal education grants. With limited funding alternatives, many say the losses will have lasting effects on students.
Date & Time: Wednesday, January 21, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET <br><br> In this 30-minute Ed Talk, participants will explore how inquiry-based learning (IBL) experiences grounded in the design process through engineering and maker-style enrichment encourages persistence, collaboration, and productive struggle. The presentation will also examine why after-school time is uniquely positioned to support this work.
The "Weber–Fechner law" which describes the relationship between stimulus and human perception. Simply put, our ability to notice change is not linear.
More of the agency's responsibilities are being handed off to other departments, which will take control of workforce programs, college access and child care.
Leaders of the two-month-old Riverstone Academy say their students are owed state funding under the U.S. Constitution, but state officials argue that funding a school with religious teachings would violate both state and federal law.
