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Head Start鈥檚 Antipoverty Mission Threatened by Trump Administration Overhaul

From health screenings to low adult-child ratios, Head Start's 鈥榞old-standard鈥� quality could be at risk under sweeping HHS proposal.

Emily Tate Sullivan & Amanda Geduld
childhood health
childhood health

Measles Cases Hit 35-Year Record High Just As Kids Head Back to School

South Carolina and Utah account for half of the 2026 cases. In S.C., 50 districts are already back in session and Utah schools are soon to follow.

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld
future of high school
future of high school
Future of High School

The Schools Turning to AI to Rate Students Beyond A-F Grades

Mastery Transcript Consortium teachers will use the technology to provide feedback on everything from student's artwork to verbal presentations.

Patrick O鈥橠onnell
Author: Patrick O鈥橠onnell
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AI Tutors Are Praising Instead of Teaching. Here鈥檚 Why That鈥檚 Hurting Students

Austria: Researchers call it sycophancy: when an AI system flatters, agrees with or validates a user even when a correction would be more truthful.

Davis Austria
Author: Davis Austria
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New NAEP Report Shows Learning Progress Has Stalled. Here’s What to Do About It

Rafal-Baer: Reversing decades of stagnation takes engaging learning opportunities, evidence-based approaches, meaningful data & the will to use it.

Julia Rafal-Baer
Author: Julia Rafal-Baer
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Children Are Drowning. It’s Time We Bring in the Teachers

Student鈥檚 View: There is no substitute for learning to swim. But classroom instruction can protect millions of children who never get swim lessons.

Kate Casciato
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Exclusive: Nearly 1,900 U.S. Public Schools Within a Mile of a Data Center

Research shows lower math scores among students attending schools nearby.

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
The Big Picture
The Big Picture
The Big Picture

Settling Scores: Experts Debate Why AP Performance Has Soared

Since the College Board began changing its grading criteria for Advanced Placement exams, scores have climbed rapidly.

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken

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Trump Accounts Have Arrived. Here鈥檚 What Families Need to Know

A visual explainer on these new accounts, which will have some babies investing from day one.

Emily Tate Sullivan & Dianne Kirsch

Spotlight Oklahoma

Spotlight Oklahoma
Spotlight Oklahoma
Spotlight Oklahoma

Tulsa Charter Network Begins to Bounce Back From Pandemic Decline

Elsie Urueta Pollock founded Tulsa Honor Academy more than decade ago and now works to encourage more Latinos to open charter schools.

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
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Spotlight Oklahoma

Three Schools, One Direction: Combining High School, College and CTE Work

Student鈥檚 View: I found an ocean of opportunity at my three schools 鈥� and a community of people who believed in me.

Caleb Phillips
Author: Caleb Phillips
Spotlight Oklahoma
Spotlight Oklahoma

Aquatic Robots, Drones and Power Tools: STEM Spans All Grades in Oklahoma School

With computer science beginning in kindergarten and a character education curriculum, Dove Schools charter network has a 100% college acceptance rate.

Lauren Wagner
Author: Lauren Wagner
Spotlight Oklahoma
Spotlight Oklahoma
Spotlight Oklahoma

How the 鈥楽outhern Surge鈥� Passed Oklahoma By

Tyner: Educational decline can happen slowly, almost invisibly, until it becomes impossible to ignore. Other states should take note.

Adam Tyner
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Accountability Works. Outcomes-Based Contracting Makes It Work Better

Cerf: Accountability in contracts tells providers they will be judged by how much children learn 鈥� and must accept the consequences when kids don't.

Chris Cerf
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As the Education Department Is Dismantled, Who Protects the Right to Learn?

Lhamon and Young: Moving special education services and civil rights complaints to other federal agencies weakens protections for students.

Catherine Lhamon & Michelle D. Young
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Note to Democrats: Supporting Unions Isn’t the Same as Supporting Education

Elorza: The logic of 'Stand with unions, stand with teachers; stand with teachers, stand with students' is simple and convenient. It鈥檚 also wrong.

Jorge Elorza
Author: Jorge Elorza
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AI Tutors Are Praising Instead of Teaching. Here鈥檚 Why That鈥檚 Hurting Students

Austria: Researchers call it sycophancy: when an AI system flatters, agrees with or validates a user even when a correction would be more truthful.

Davis Austria
Author: Davis Austria
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Head Start
Head Start

Head Start鈥檚 Antipoverty Mission Threatened by Trump Administration Overhaul

From health screenings to low adult-child ratios, Head Start's 鈥榞old-standard鈥� quality could be at risk under sweeping HHS proposal.

Emily Tate Sullivan & Amanda Geduld
New York
New York

2-K Offers Are Out: 2,000 NYC Toddlers Get Spots, 5,700 Apply

More than 80% of applicants got into one of their top three program choices, and more than half got into their first choice, officials said.

Michael Elsen-Rooney
California
California

These New Exams Will Test California 4-Year-Olds鈥� English Fluency With Playful Games

The California Department of Education approved two language screeners to replace the English Language Proficiency Assessment for California (ELPAC).

Zaidee Stavely, EdSource
Early Care and Education
Early Care and Education

Trump Overhaul Could Gut Head Start Standards, Leaving States to Set the Rules

The proposed changes would replace more than 100 pages of regulations with a much shorter version, leaving specifics to state and local laws.

Moriah Balingit, The Associated Press
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Who Decides Which Stories Children Get to Read?

Jan Lacina, editor of a textbook that helps teachers select children鈥檚 books, discusses censorship and why access to diverse literature matters.

Mark Swartz
Author: Mark Swartz
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Bright Spots
Bright Spots

Is Your School Beating the Odds in Reading?

Using new national data from over 40,000 schools, this interactive map identifies the schools beating the odds in teaching kids to read.

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Teachers Shouldn’t Have to Be Superheroes to Get the Job Done

David Rosenberg & Karen Hawley Miles
New Mexico

New Mexico Just Became the First State to Make Child Care Free for Nearly All Families

Bryce Covert
Author: Bryce Covert
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Survey: 1 in 4 High School Seniors Changed Post-Graduation Plans Due to COVID

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Uvalde Teachers Eva Mireles & Irma Garcia鈥檚 Classroom Was Filled With ‘Love’

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Lawmakers Aim to Boost Kids鈥� Access to Autism Therapy at Colorado Schools

Faith Miller, Colorado Newsline
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Erin Douglas & Jason Beeferman
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