Gaining Status: Soft Skills Count for Credit at Maine, Kansas Colleges
Supporters of teaching high school students “soft” skills such as communication, critical thinking and teamwork usually tout how they can help succeed in a job or even help students get into college.…
Starting this fall, there’s a new, more tangible benefit — college cre…
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Financial Literacy Is Required For Hawai‘i Grads. Are Schools Ready?
This article was originally published in Honolulu Civil Beat.At Pearl City High School, teacher Tammy Yoon is determined to teach students the basics of personal finance.…
How to write a check.
How to calculate interest on a car loan.
How to run a cost-benefit analysis on whether to attend college.
Parents Demanding Tech Opt Outs Take Their Fight to Federal Court
Parents pushing back against technology in the classroom have so far directed their anger toward major corporations like Google and Curriculum Associates, the company behind the widely used i-Ready platform.…
But the “techlash” took a turn last week when seven families in a Phil…
The 8,500-student Lower Merion School District adopted a new technolog…
17 that limits the use of devices in elementary school and doesn’t ass…
AI Tutors Not Yet a Replacement for Humans, Research Says
Updated September 3, 2026 Wendy Graham’s two kids first encountered Amira, a popular artificial intelligence tutoring platform, in 2025, during a summer reading program in New Mexico.…
She also used it at home with her daughter, now a fourth grader.
But she found that the purple-haired avatar with the big, round glasse…
When she stumbled over “usually,” the “learning agent” wanted her to r…
3-Year College Degrees Grow More Popular in the U.S., Saving Time and Cash. But Critics Aren’t Sold
This article was originally published in The Associated Press.Giles Sims, 34, was sick of getting passed over for jobs because he didn’t have a college degree.…
But with a wife and a widowed mother to help support, he needed a quic…
So the laid-off web developer turned to one of a growing number of thr…
“I can’t afford to be out of the workforce for four years.
Superintendents Want Schools to Change. New Study Examines Why It Doesn’t Happen
Walk into a public high school in New England, and it will likely look largely the same as it did 50 years ago: a bell schedule, class periods for each academic subject, students sorted into regular and honors tracks, teachers teaching a single subject, students generally compliant, passive and very bored.…
They still distribute opportunity, resources and credentials to differ…
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‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ ‘Goodnight Moon’ and the Case for Picture Books as Great Art
The children’s author Mac Barnett does not pull punches when it comes to his chosen profession: “If you don’t think children’s books are real books,” he writes, “on some level you don’t think children are real people.…
” The author of more than 70 books, Barnett has become a key evangelis…
As the Library of Congress’s ninth National Ambassador for Young Peopl…
And Barnett scored a rare feat for a children’s book author, this spri…
Laura Bornfreund opens her new book, “Rediscovering Kindergarten: Embracing Play & Joy in Kindergarten” by bringing readers inside her daughter Ainsley’s experience entering kindergarten in August 2017.…
The fact that Ainsley just started high school shows the long and thor…
Bornfreund — a senior fellow at New America, where she previously was …
In her book, she digs into the history of kindergarten and how it’s ch…
Opinion: Survey: 1 in 4 Kids Who Needed Mental Health Help Didn’t Get It
When a middle schooler sits down in math class, she might be thinking about the argument she had on the way to school, the stress at home she can’t escape or whether she’s going to eat today.…
She is probably not thinking about algebra.
Adults design policies for her future — the classes she takes, the pro…
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Opinion: In Tennessee, My Immigrant Students and Families Give More Than They Take
By all appearances, she is a typical fourth-grade girl.She has long, dark brown hair and an infectious smile, and she dreams of becoming a police officer when she grows up.…
But unlike most 10-year-olds, a year ago this child left her family an…
To protect her from the violence against women that is pervasive in ru…
Abiding by our immigration policy at the time, the young girl crossed …
How to Help Your Kids Make Friends at a New School
This article was originally published in The Associated Press.For students starting at a new school, the first day holds many questions: Will they see any familiar faces?…
Who will they sit with at lunch?
Who will they play with at recess?
“I’m this much nervous,” said Iman Fair-Seldon, 5, holding her hands a…
Opinion: Without Part-Time Jobs or School Clubs, Teens Miss Out on Basic Life Skills
As teenagers return to school this fall, a new report suggests that many of them are moving through adolescence without the experiences that help prepare them for adulthood, activities like a part-time job, a club, a team and a regular family meal.…
The clearest evidence is teen employment, which alone has been declini…
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Virtual School Enrollment Has Doubled in Recent Years, Following Pandemic-Era Surge
This article was originally published in Chalkbeat.Remote learning during the pandemic was a nightmare for some students, but others have stuck with it, new data shows.…
Just over 600,000 public school students attended fully virtual school…
That’s about 1 in 80 public school children — a twofold increase since…
This reflects the growth of school choice: In more places, families wh…