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Enrollment and test data can tell school leaders at all levels who participates, how they fare and which programs must cast a wider net.

Educators are calling on the K-12 system to prioritize college-going efforts for marginalized students. Here’s how they can begin navigating changes.

“We prepare our children to be academically smart. We teach them algebra, trigonometry, history and English, and all of those things [so] that they can be prepared to get a job. But we don’t teach them how to be emotionally intelligent — the things that’s needed to keep a job.” -NYC Mayor, Eric Adams

Education officials and activists are concerned about an increase in the number of American students who are absent for many days during the school year. Unless school leaders draw upon the knowledge of their students and families, they are unlikely to create effective solutions.

Their secret, they say: Remember that education at home is just as, if not more, important than education in the classroom.

There are plenty of stories about girls who fall in love with monsters, but what about monster girls themselves? Perhaps not surprisingly, YA fiction is also a great place to find girls who are monstrous in one way or another. 

Is your middle school student switching off this summer? Experts say the benefits to keeping that brain engaged are huge and the activities needn’t be academic. Some ideas for trying something new.

Large school systems including Denver, Philadelphia and Anchorage, Alaska, have been looking into later start times.

Share of young people seeking higher education slips since pandemic began.

Textbooks can be used in both physical and digital formats, and the latter may allow teachers to pull details or sections they want to use, embed them into lessons, and bring some flexibility to their teaching.

Researchers find that math students learn best through individual practice while English students thrive in groups.

The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education are putting public schools on notice that immigrant children and youth are entitled to a free public education, regardless of their immigration status.

Inviting students to bring important adults to middle school can facilitate engagement, connection, and learning.

Elementary through high school students are eager for nonfiction. Here’s how to find the books they’ll want to read.

L.A.’s celebrity-backed Roybal Film and Television Production Magnet program seeks to link minority students to behind-the-scenes jobs in TV and film.

Math and reading scores among America’s 13-year-olds fell to their lowest levels in decades, with math scores plunging by the largest margin ever recorded.

This year, we received more than 3,300 entries, from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. It’s a big jump over last year, and the most entries we’ve gotten since we began the contest began back in 2019!

Parents, scientists and the surgeon general are worried. But there isn’t even a shared definition of what social media is.

The point is not whether one can get a book that’s been prohibited in a school; it’s about whether someone’s ready access to ideas has been denied or diminished in a public institution and why.

Adolescents can overcome circadian phase delay and boost their sleep duration with an earlier bedtime, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The switch from algebra to statistics was a big factor in the CUNY experiment’s success.

Sociologist Peter Francis Harvey embedded with students at private upper-middle-class, public working-class schools to explore implicit lessons

The claim-evidence-reasoning method promotes critical thinking by giving students a framework for solving multistep problems.

Given the current political climate in the U.S., there is no reason to assume more laws that govern what can be taught in public schools will not be passed. But based on how the laws are being written, there are still plenty of ways for teachers to tackle difficult subjects, such as racism in American society.

At Kansas’s Blue Valley CAPS, high-schoolers spend 3 hours a day dipping their toes in adult professions — real life, but with ‘bubble wrap,’ one says.

These authors are consistent top picks of middle school students and may help inspire a lasting love of reading.

It was just weeks ago that Marlin High School in Texas abruptly postponed its graduation ceremony, saying only a handful of its seniors had met requirements to get their diploma. In an update, school officials say that because of the seniors’ hard work, all of them will graduate later this month.

Some folks devour books by the dozen, while others rarely crack one open. It turns out, though, that the avid readers might have a real edge. Learn the unexpected benefits of reading, and check out our own collections of favorites to add to your own must-read list.

Despite decades of research, there’s no clear answer on whether grade retention in early grades is a good idea. Existing data is open to competing interpretations, and big questions about the policy remain unanswered.

Yes, we do know how to help students succeed in school. Too many schools just don’t do it. This post looks more broadly at four important lessons on how schools can help students succeed that are explained in the book “Schools of Opportunity: 10 Research-Based Models of Equity in Action.”

The new official will work under the department’s Office for Civil Rights and provide training on how book bans may violate federal civil rights laws.

Laws under consideration in New York and elsewhere aim to highlight the contributions of LGBT people

An independent school uses art and movement to set students with learning differences up for success.

Finding dystopian books for middle school readers can be tricky because some of the novels descend into extremely dark territory that some readers can handle, but might be too much for others. It can be a challenge to pull together the right books, but when you do, and you hook a student on a great series, it can be an amazing experience for everyone. Diving into fictional worlds that deal with bleak futures can be a great way to escape our own troubles or makes us feel a little better about the future in general.

First-of-its-kind analysis uncovers widespread use of suspensions for attendance violations in Arizona.

Consistent interaction with fellow students who know what it’s like to learn a new language can offer multilingual learners essential support.

Analogies help students remember new information by connecting it to frameworks or contexts they already know.

In recognition of LGBT Pride Month, The Conversation reached out to Professor Jonathan Alexander for recommendations of young adult fiction books that feature LGBTQ characters. What follows is a list that Alexander, who has just stepped down as the children’s and young adult fiction section editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, considers as “must-reads” for this summer.

After the murder of George Floyd, school districts across the country reconsidered the presence of police in public schools. But with the threat of school shootings three years later, many are opting to reverse course, bringing police and school resource officers back on campus. 

Teachers, principals, parents and officials must listen to the most marginalized girls, use their input to create systems of belonging.

Utilizing five-year estimates and chatting with a few experts who added useful context to the numbers, we looked at how one school district has responded to its evolving demographics and what implications the changes have for students who are learning English as their second language.

The Margaret A. Edwards Award winner took over SLJ’s Instagram for a live Q&A that spanned his books, inspiration, censorship, and AI. Here’s what he shared.

If requested, the Common App will conceal basic information on race and ethnicity — a move that could help schools if the Supreme Court ends affirmative action.

The 14-year-old wins $50,000 in cash, a commemorative medal and the Scripps Cup.

Studies show too much noise, particularly loud, irregular noise, can hurt a child’s brain development, because if sound is irregular, it distracts our brains and makes concentration more difficult.

Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro’s middle grade adventure receives a star this month, as do a Jarrett Lerner early reader and the Nintendo game Metroid Prime Remastered. 

Iowa BIG is revolutionizing high school, collaborating with districts to give students opportunities to learn & grow through community-based projects.

As clinical psychology researchers, we study why social media challenges are so appealing to teens despite the dangers they pose, and steps parents can take to protect their kids. We offer five ways parents can help their teen resist social pressure and avoid risks linked to social media trends.

Teachers can use these strategies to help students in grades 6 to 12 develop skills that are crucial to scientific study and exploration.

School districts that created online academies to cater to families who preferred virtual education are struggling to keep them open as enrollment drops and costs rise.

While nearly three-quarters of the high school class of 2023 aspired to attend college, a lesser share, two-thirds, actually expected to enroll, according to a new survey from nonprofit YouthTruth. These gaps worsened for certain groups.

In a course exclusive to the Maryland county school system, students invent objects they think would improve life on the planet.

Parents had objected to Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia changing its admissions policies, including getting rid of an exam.

Concerned parents have many tools, including free software from Apple and Google, to actively oversee how children use their tech.

Text messages, Instagram posts and TikTok profiles. Parents often caution their kids against sharing too much information online, weary about how all that data gets used. But one Texas high schooler wants to use that digital footprint to save lives.

Nearly a quarter of adolescents struggle with insomnia. Do you?

Young adult fiction has a certain reputation with people who don’t normally read it. Since the books are about teens, the themes must be juvenile, right? What literary adult wants to read about whiny teenagers with their naive problems? Admittedly, some YA books are wall-to-wall with whiny teenagers. That isn’t what defines YA, though. In fact, there are many books that prove nothing is off limits for YA.

It’s time for algebra to consistently be seen and experienced as more than a meandering stream of abstract variables and procedures.

Here’s how using strategies that link linguistic effort with content can engage and encourage middle school English language learners.

Media literacy lessons can help high school students develop critical thinking skills as they question what they see online.