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Summer tutoring has become the rallying cry by politicians and pundits as a way to address the learning loss from months of remote and hybrid learning. A frightening number of students did not show up to class last school year, including up to 15% of kindergarteners in some school districts. But tutoring is the not…

Less than a month after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill he described as “a strong move to abolish critical race theory in Texas”—which educators worry will limit how they can talk about the history of systemic racism and current events—the Republican leader put the issue back on the agenda for a…

The 9-4 decision capped weeks of tension that began when a board member halted the process over questions about Hannah-Jones' credentials

During the 15-minute observation period after receiving his COVID-19 shot this March, Terry Harris pulled out his phone. There in the Vashon High School gymnasium, during a vaccination drive for St. Louis–area teachers, the executive director of student services at the suburban Rockwood school district in Missouri noticed an email addressed to himself and district…

The U.S. Education Department will erase student debt for thousands of borrowers who attended a for-profit college chain, ITT Technical Institute.

“These investments will give American children a head start and pave the way for the best-educated generation in U.S. history,” the administration said

On March 30, 2020, toward the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic, New Haven citizens stormed the city’s Zoom budget meeting to vent their outrage at Yale University’s continued strain on city finances. Residents specifically pointed to Yale’s vast and tax-exempt property holdings compared to the deficit-ridden New Haven public schools hungry for property-tax dollars.…

The pandemic has altered life plans for many high school seniors, and counselors have had a close-up view of their anxiety

The economy wins when student loans are erased, but borrowers often struggle to access relief programs

The first sign that Twyla Joseph’s college application process was not going to go as planned came on March 13, 2020, when, a day before her scheduled SAT, she learned the test had been canceled. The May and June tests were also canceled as coronavirus cases surged. Joseph never got to take the admissions test.…

Educators tell TIME that anti-Asian racism is directly linked to how the AAPI community is often depicted in U.S. history lessons

This reverses a Trump-era policy that made it harder for borrowers to get loan forgiveness