Today’s children and young adults care more about climate change than they do most issues as temperatures have reached record highs and the number of weather-related disasters continues to rise. Yet ...

Almost from the moment it was created in 1979, the U.S. Department of Education has faced calls for its elimination from conservatives, who have argued that it gives the federal government too much ...

K-12 education is shaping up to be a key issue in the 2024 election cycle. Several prominent Republican leaders, including GOP presidential candidates, have sought to limit discussion of gender ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

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Alexander Russo is the founder of The Grade, which monitors media coverage of education. Previously, he authored Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors (on the attempt to turn around a Los Angeles high ...

The perennially touchy issue of sex education has erupted again—this time in states not known for being especially prudish about the topic. Both Illinois and New Jersey rolled out changes to health ...

A controversial piece of legislation in Florida, which would prevent educators from teaching about menstruation and other sex education topics in elementary school, advanced out of the House Education ...