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Since the sudden rise of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, many teachers and professors have started using AI detectors to check their students’ work. The idea is that the detectors will catch if a student has had a robot do their work for them.

Smaller classes, increased teaching time & other innovations work but scaling local experiments has been difficult.

High school students demand school districts include climate subjects in classrooms.

Zero tolerance policies in schools can make student behavior worse, according to a new study.

A high school teacher says she had to start from scratch.

Teachers say they have to balance ‘giving grace’ to struggling students with maintaining high expectations.

A special education staffing crisis is raging through many U.S. school districts. It’s taking a toll on students and families.

From magical school fantasies to hilarious sibling stories, these 13 selections will keep middle schoolers turning pages during summer break. Complete with graphic novels, biographies, and poetry, this list has something for every tween.

Landmark Brown. v. Board Supreme Court decision is revered, but Post-Ipsos poll shows mixed feelings about how to address today’s school segregation.

Teachers can help students get over the fear of making a mistake by showing them that errors are just a part of the learning process.

Arkansas coach prioritizes grades, leverages recruiters & cares for his players — especially after a tragic loss — and sees team land college offers.

In podcast, an economist, a policy expert, and a teacher explain why learning losses are worse than many parents realize.

When middle school students are given the opportunity to deeply explore what it means to be a changemaker, they see a path toward making a difference in their own community—and beyond.

Rural students have lower college-going rates than their urban peers, but collaborations among K-12, higher ed, local government and housing and criminal justice systems can make a difference.

Urban school districts grapple with under-resourced schools, emotional closures in the face of plummeting enrollment

Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect.

On eve of the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, a study finds policy choices explain the rise in segregated schools.

74% of readers of novels aimed at adolescents are, in fact, over 18, according to a recent report by publishers HarperCollins and Farshore.

Schools shoulder the burden in states where early learning is underfunded.

Big Brothers Big Sisters has helped hundreds of undergraduates navigate campus life and find a path to career success.

Researchers say this DIY approach isn’t serving students well.

Gen Zers’ lack of motivation to go to school has caused educators to shift their engagement strategies — including more internships and electives.

It’s rare to get a first-person perspective on living with a condition called schizoaffective disorder. But Michael Vargas Arango, who was diagnosed as a teenager, wanted the world to know that it’s not something to be afraid of.

Looking for book suggestions to move your teen off the couch and into a book? Look no further!

Need suggestions for beach reading or books to bring to summer camp? Each of our lists — for all age ranges and including fiction, nonfiction, folklore, and poetry — includes thirteen selections (a baker’s dozen!), all published 2023–2024 and ideal for the season. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion.

Literacy is a foundational skill for learning new content and as an upper elementary science teacher, my soon-to-be middle schoolers have ideally made the vital transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” But pandemic-era school closures drastically cut into learning time, and literacy skills have been slow to recover.

Do older students still need to master basic reading skills? A recent survey sheds light on the amount of time secondary ELA teachers are spending on teaching basic reading skills.

An AZ library has taken teens out the library, into the mountains, and onto the trail through their Get Out programming. The library has offered outdoor events incorporating survival skills, trail safety, kayaking, and camping, as well as horse therapy, outdoor yoga, pickleball, and disc golf—all geared to provide more out-of-doors experiences for tweens and teens still recovering from the mental and physical toll of the ­COVID-19 pandemic.

Larry Ferlazzo provides a collection of strategies to support older students experiencing reading challenges.

Students’ phone use is disruptive, but teachers and administrators seeking a fix face an unlikely opponent.

With the release of the Biden administration’s new rule governing the federal sex discrimination law, we look back at major events in recent Title IX history.

Early research shows it cuts turnover and improves teachers’ job satisfaction.

Making games a regular part of class can get even the coolest high school students engaged in the content—and help them recall key concepts and vocabulary.

Use this assessment tool to align student participation to Bloom’s Taxonomy in the high school classroom.

It’s been 25 years since 12 students and one teacher were killed in the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado. It was the largest mass killing at a high school in U.S. history at the time. But since then, school shootings have grown to higher levels. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Tom Mauser, whose son, Daniel, was killed at Columbine that day.

Operating out of three Catholic middle schools, Access Academies offers enrichment, counseling, and scholarships to hundreds of disadvantaged kids.

Parents of Tennessee fourth graders would have input on whether their children get held back because of low reading test scores, under compromise legislation that’s headed to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk.

Polikoff and his fellow researchers at the University of California, where he’s a professor of education, set out to find what Americans think about topics that have been roiled in controversy over the past several years. The resulting study finds that while there are some obvious partisan divides, there are some surprising areas where most adults agree.

This is not a bad time to work in education. It should be an exciting time. Reform has hardly been flawless and hasn’t achieved its loftier goals, but at the same time, evidence of progress is all around.

A new version of the popular board game Catan, which hits shelves this summer, introduces energy production and pollution into the gameplay.

As part of our Mind the Middle project focusing on middle grade books, I’m going to try to do weekly Take Five lists, which is to say, five books on a certain theme. 

As part of their Mind the Middle Project, SLJ has created Take Five lists that can help you with collection development, displays, reading lists, and more. This week’s list is comprised of books that are great for everyone, but especially for readers who may find longer narratives intimidating and like the easy stopping points and kind of pick and choose format that can come with these sorts of books.

The pandemic changed families’ lives and the culture of education: “Our relationship with school became optional.”

Running a preschool inside a high school gives students the chance to try out a career in education—and it benefits the teens and tots alike.

Phone bans are the hottest education policy since banning critical race theory. Are personal computers next on the list? 

Michigan Principal of the Year, Jon Wilcox, shares his keys to teacher and student success.

Survey shows that as students increasingly turn to generative AI for schoolwork, educators grow more wary of their pupils’ academic integrity.

A gathering of news articles describing the impact of book bans on middle grade and young adult literature available in school libraries and their teen readers.

The best aspects of teaching are what propels them to stay, despite the challenges.

Amid a deepening literacy crisis, Get Lit spreads a love of literature through spoken word poetry and performance. Founded by actor/writer Diane Luby Lane in 2006, Get Lit, which recently received $1 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, teaches classical poetry as well as empowers children and teens to write their own poems in over 150 Los Angeles schools, instilling a love of language in a generation often struggling with literacy.

Secondary students can consider the ecological context in which a text was written to gain new insights into their reading assignments.

A collection of stories about the changing landscape of education in America.

By sitting down with students and laying out just what they need to do to pass, teachers can give them the tools to succeed.

An experienced middle school math teacher compares her experience learning pickleball with how she teaches her students.

Games and other activities can make the subject more engaging, encourage collaboration and boost student self-esteem, one expert says.

A Nobel Prize-winner’s debut novel and works about race and gender were among the books most targeted by ban campaigns last year. “Gender Queer,” an autobiographical graphic novel written by nonbinary author Maia Kobabe, was the most challenged library book in 2023, according to a report released Monday by the American Library Association. 

Study of 15-year-olds reveals associations for academic performance and behavioral trouble at school. 

For many students who enroll in higher education after high school, a typical “four-year” degree can take twice as long to earn — if they complete it at all.