3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1206+ words) Nearly 86,000 of California’s children ages 0 to 3 — more than 5% of the state’s infants and toddlers — are estimated to have experienced homelessness in 2023-24, according to new data analysis by SchoolHouse Connection and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan. This is a…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (496+ words) Since May, Kelly Rogers has had the difficult job of making parents of students with disabilities feel better about the Trump administration’s plan to relocate oversight of special education services. On Wednesday, she abruptly stepped down, just as roughly 100 staff…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (760+ words) The Trump administration took an unprecedented move last week when it sued the Kansas City, Kansas, school district over how it handles student gender identity issues. The Department of Justice has accused the district of instructing staff to withhold information…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1731+ words) Greg Toppo is a senior writer at The 74. In 2017, Alex Campbell, a sociology teacher at Elizabethton High School in Tennessee, offered his students the assignment of a lifetime: Could they solve a notorious series of cold-case murders that had stumped…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (319+ words) Anne Kim is a FutureEd senior fellow and author of the report "Future Shock: The Crisis in Career Navigation." Policymakers have invested heavily in recent years to create new career pathways for high school students. Career and technical education has…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1294+ words) 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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (195+ words) Charlie Friedman is founder and executive director of Nashville Classical Charter School, which has two campuses. This summer, 81% of third graders at Nashville Classical East scored proficient in reading on our rigorous state test, the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program. To…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (609+ words) Chad Aldeman is a regular columnist for The 74. He writes about school finance, state assessments and accountability, and the teacher labor market. He is also the founder of Read Not Guess, a program to help parents teach their children to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (418+ words) Meghan McCormick is research and impact officer at Overdeck Family Foundation. Carly Robinson is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform. By Meghan McCormick & Carly Robinson Artificial intelligence-based tutoring programs promise something schools have long…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (835+ words) Martin Slagter is an education reporter with 17 years of experience in print and digital media. His bylines have appeared in The Ann Arbor News, Chalkbeat Detroit, Kokomo Tribune and Big Rapids Pioneer. Put it in your locker. Store it in…...