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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.

Chronicle readers comment on the merits of evidence-based grading systems for schools and what it means to be a good student.

Educators at elementary schools across the city have been required to adopt one of three reading programs, part of a mandate under schools Chancellor David Banks to boost literacy rates by flushing out popular but increasingly discredited programs. There has been little organized opposition to the reading curriculum overhaul, as many literacy experts, the city’s teachers union, and several major education advocacy groups have supported it. But resistance may grow louder as the city has required all local districts to adopt the new reading programs by September.

The stakes are high: Students have a lot of academic ground to make up following the pandemic. Yet they’re not fully engaged in the classroom, teachers report in a new national survey.

Our new research looks at how much Australian teenagers are reading for leisure, and how we can help them read more.

We asked teachers about how students are doing at their school. Overall, many teachers hold negative views about students’ academic performance and behavior.

Understanding how teenagers think can help you be an ally.

With a series of quick check-ins, students can assess their own learning — which lets teachers plan their next lesson with ease.

In a Life Skill classroom at Allen High School the students, 18-21 with intellectual disabilities, are studying Taylor Swift to improve their social-emotional learning.

Move over Dog Man! Make room for nonfiction books.

Yearlong effort explores how to better serve youth most in need through system-level partnerships.

Survey of Los Angeles voters, parents and students finds that more than 80% support increased funding for schools to offer vocational courses.

The problem, say experts, is that adolescents are uniquely vulnerable to the siren song of cellphones. This is where social-emotional learning might help: Educators can teach students the social-emotional skills they need to help break their addictive, unhealthy phone habits.

When students are reading below their grade level, these different approaches can motivate them to engage with texts and improve their literacy skills.

Students miss hundreds of thousands of days of school each year for subjective infractions like defiance and disorderly conduct.

Sharing my emotions with my teenager and younger son taught me the value in being vulnerable.

The study looked at bullying among adolescents from 44 countries and regions, including England, Wales and Scotland.

In a letter to her grandson, the author of The Breakthrough Years shares her hopes his future.

Has a book ever touched you so personally that you felt a deep connection to the writer?

From post-apocalypse classics to “mysterious and magical” graphic novels, here’s what the students at Octavia E. Butler Magnet are reading.

The country needs some shared understanding of what it means to be an American and what’s changed — and hasn’t — over these several centuries.

A small shift in lesson presentation can encourage older students to actively participate in class.

Asking teenagers to plan learning nights for elementary kids has benefits for both sets of students—and the kids’ parents.

Six hard truths from a decade in the teaching profession.

Defying criticism, one district says substituting data science for Algebra II has reaped rewards.

States and districts must commit their last ESSER allocation by Sept. 30. Spending, however, can continue to Jan. 28, 2025 — or beyond for some.

A linguist from the Yakama Nation, she wrote dictionaries and helped build the infrastructure to teach a language that wasn’t traditionally written down.

As school districts depend more on technology, cyberattacks against those systems, and the sensitive data they store, are on the rise.

We canvassed the country in search of creative high-schoolers. Here are four innovators we can’t stop talking about.

A debate over data science offerings in high school — and whether the classes should be offered as an alternative to algebra II — has erupted in California.

Sal Khan says the technology could save education, but the gains he hopes for haven’t been seen in modern research.

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Johanna Jarcho and her team will use neuroimaging to see how adolescents respond to peer feedback, aiming to find a potential new treatment for social anxiety.

Deborah Crossland, the author of “The Quiet Part Out Loud,” recommends some of her favorite Y.A. reimaginings of classical myths.

Young readers report becoming more thoughtful after reading stories that feature characters who face complex challenges.

Rural residents who consider themselves conservative reject private school vouchers.