A New Nation’s Report Card Shows Drops in Science, Math and Reading Scores
Today, the assessments in math and reading are given every two years to a broad sample of students in fourth...
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Teaching Civics in a Divided Age? Intergenerational Dialogue Should Go Both Ways
Research shows intergenerational programs can improve students’ empathy, literacy and civic engagement, but developing those relationships outside of the home...
More Students Head Back to Class Without One Crucial Thing: Their Phones
Next year she hopes to be at college and is looking forward to the freedom. Transcript: STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: More...
How Schools are Countering Absenteeism with Food, Rides and Individual Notes
Reilly managed to slash his chronic absenteeism rate in half to 25 percent this past 2024-25 year. That’s still high....
How Prepared are ‘COVID Kindergartners’ for School?
“Just being in utero during a highly stressful time had some developmental effects on infants,” Dani Dumitriu, a pediatrician and...
Friendship Break Ups Can Be Devastating for Tweens. Here’s How Adults Can Help
Friendship is a skill set, according to Denworth, and kids don’t automatically arrive with all the tools they need. A...
Tutoring Was Supposed to Save American Kids After the Pandemic. The Results? ‘Sobering’
Their preliminary results were “sobering,” according to a June report by the University of Chicago Education Lab and MDRC, a...
These Programs Help Poor Students with College. Trump Wants to Pull the Funding
But Griffith’s stepsister had introduced her to a federal program called Upward Bound. It places high school students in college...
Inaccurate, Impossible: Experts Knock New Trump Plan to Collect College Admissions Data
“You’ve got this effort to add these elements without a mechanism with which to vet the new variables, as well...
Why a Good Pep Talk Doesn’t Always Need to Include Advice
“Make sure you’re listening to what they need and tailoring the pep talk to the specific anxiety they have,” Linden...
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