Curriculum and instruction
One librarian anonymously reported pulling 300 titles since the school year’s start.
Schools Chancellor David Banks was especially excited for the first day. “It represents the rebirth of our school system,” he said.
From school enrollment shifts to a possible cell phone ban, these are some of the key issues we’re watching in New York City schools this year.
Tennessee’s Missy Testerman speaks out against classroom and library censorship, private school vouchers
A new poll finds most Americans think students should have access to a wide variety of books and viewpoints. They’re divided on who gets to decide where the line is.
Hillsdale College wants donations to ‘put the Constitution back in Tennessee schools.’ But it isn’t absent, educators say.
Gov. Phil Murphy held the bill signing in Newark, where third grade literacy rates plummeted after the COVID pandemic.
Unschooling, a niche of homeschooling, is largely unregulated in Indiana.
Summer Rising costs the city roughly $240 million a year, but some observers question whether the program is the best use of city resources.
Seeking culturally relevant lessons or hoping to better serve student needs, many educators make changes to curriculum. Experts worry about drifting too far from standards.
We want to hear your thoughts on how artificial intelligence-powered tools like ChatGPT are affecting the classroom.
As NYC closes the books on a school year marked by curriculum changes, political strife, and budget woes, we’re already looking ahead to the first day of school on Sept. 7.
Known as “NYC Solves,” the new initiative will see 93 middle schools across eight school districts, as well as 420 high schools, using Illustrative Math this fall.
Ethnomathematics tries to make math relevant, with students calculating the slope of Hawaiian mountainsides or using trigonometry to evenly space braids.
As more states require schools to teach Asian American history, an Illinois program is helping teachers bolster their own knowledge and integrate lessons into curriculum they already use.
A trip to the Arctic inspired Brooklyn Prospect High School’s Caitlyn Homol to create a unit exploring “the relationship between motivation, action, and climate attitudes.”
A new study shows students with access to school libraries and librarians perform better academically than those without.
Almost 75% of the city’s high schools do not have student publications, according to a 2022 study.
The ‘Youth Civic Hub,’ an online portal launched on Friday aims to increase youth civic engagement and electoral participation.
Some parents pulled their kids out of school as the exceedingly rare phenomenon appeared in New York City’s skies on Monday.