Third graders are way behind in reading, reports Hechinger's Jill Barshay. These students, who were in kindergarten when their schools...

Seven parents tell Washington Post Magazine why they left district-run public schools for private school or homeschooling. "Since 2019,...

Americans are socializing a lot less, staying home alone a lot more, writes economist Bryce Ward in the Washington Post. That's true for...

District-run public schools lost nine percent of enrollment between spring 2021 and spring 2022, concludes School Disrupted by Tyton...

Teachers were more anxious than health care workers -- or anyone else -- during the first year of the pandemic, according to a newly...

The National Education Association's claim that educators "love" their students and know what's best for them is getting a lot of push...

Enrollment is climbing in virtual schools, even as pandemic fears wane, reports Asher Lehrer-Small on The 74. Online schools saw an...

Post-pandemic parents want to don't want to leave their children's education to the local school system, concludes a survey released Oct....

The red wave turned out to be a purple haze. Moderates outperformed extremists. Democracy did not end. Trumpery lost its luster. An...

On-demand virtual tutoring has the potential to help students catch up in school, concludes a recent study of California students in...

Weak math skills could cost young workers as much as $1 trillion in the coming decades, warns a a new study. National test scores show...

My resolution for 2021, renewed for 2022, was to be kind and calm. There is enough nastiness and enough hysteria out there without me...

For a year or more, their high school classes were online. Perhaps they returned to an on-and-off schedule with frequent quarantine...

Alabama led the nation in maintaining math and reading achievement during the pandemic, reports Trisha Powell Crain of AL.com. That is,...

The longer urban schools stayed closed the worse their fourth-graders are doing in math, concludes an analysis of National Assessment of...

Giving students a minimum of 50 percent on assignments -- regardless of whether they're turned in -- was a disaster, a former D.C. public...

College enrollment continues to fall, according to a report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The number of...

Urban school districts are losing students, writes Matt Welch, a public school parent in New York City, in Reason. White, middle-class...

It's a mistake to put "social-emotional learning" ahead of academic learning, writes Eva Moskowitz, who created the high-performing...

"The pandemic was a wrecking ball for U.S. public education," concludes the Center for Reinventing Public Education in The State of the...