2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1206+ words) Amanda Geduld is a staff reporter at The 74. Two-year-old Mia was all smiles for her first week of school — a big moment for the eager child, but also for New York City, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched the inaugural year…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (314+ words) Lauren Wagner is a Nebraska-based staff writer at The 74. Most student programming after the final school bell offers science, technology, engineering and math activities, but rural youth still lack access, according to a recent national survey. The nonprofit’s report accompanied…...

2+ day, 12+ 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…...

2+ day, 14+ 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…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (564+ words) Kevin Mahnken is a senior writer at The 74. Students around the world continue to fall further and further behind in the core subjects of reading and math, according to the release of scores from a widely cited standardized test on…...

3+ day, 12+ 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…...

3+ day, 18+ 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…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (465+ words) The 74 International Literacy Day: This Is How Schools Get Reading Right Chad Aldeman examined The 74's Bright Spots data and found strong leadership and foundational skills are helping schools to beat the odds in reading. The Student-Led Music Group that…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (760+ words) The federal Job Corps youth training program, under threat of shutdown by the Trump administration since May, 2025, will remain open after a group of students successfully fought the closure in federal court. The U.S. Department of Justice agreed Aug. 10 to stop…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (699+ words) Greg Toppo is a senior writer at The 74. A former health industry reporter, Singer sees parallels between Silicon Valley’s campaign for coding, among other measures, and Big Pharma’s influence on medicine, noting huge school investments over the past few years…...