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Columbia University awoke Wednesday to a calendar that laid bare the breadth of its troubles, especially for its president. House Speaker Mike Johnson was...
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Students’ use of cellphones in class has been a major source of frustration among teachers. Now, teachers’ unions are picking up the cause. A...
News
Hundreds of students gathered on Wednesday in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Mass., to protest Israel’s war in Gaza and the Ivy League university’s suspension...
Teaching
The Biden administration’s newly unveiled loan-forgiveness plan could help teachers who went into debt to complete their training—if it survives regulatory scrutiny. The plan...
Technology
President Joe Biden signed legislation Wednesday banning TikTok, if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake in the company within the next nine months....
Teaching
Reading aloud to students during class time may sound like a simple, almost quaint, endeavor, as if from a bygone era. But literacy experts...
Teaching
Here’s the latest post in a lengthy series on “small” moves teachers can make that can have big payoffs in the classroom. For what...
Teaching
As historian David McCullough said, history is the study of who we are and why we are the way we are. That’s why teachers...
Academies
Lawyers for a school which has taken Ofsted to court have slammed its “mystifying and frustrating refusal” to provide more detailed explanations for why...
Academies
The education secretary has said it will be “hard to guarantee” that government would fully fund a teacher pay rise, despite schools struggling with...
Academies
A school must pay Ofsted tens of thousands of pounds after losing a High Court battle over its ‘outstanding’ downgrading, with a judge ruling...
Leaders
The U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled final nutrition standards for school meals Wednesday that include a new, gradual limit on added sugars. The rules...
News
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said he intended to call President Biden and demand that he take action, including potentially sending in the National...
Technology
A high school counselor can track what’s trending on TikTok by hearing what undiagnosed mental health or neurological condition her students think they have....
News
In response to pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the country, Brandeis, a historically Jewish university in Massachusetts, announced it would extend its deadline for...
News
Brown on Wednesday became the latest university to threaten students with punishment if they did not leave a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on campus....
News
School meals will soon contain less salt and sugar, but can still include chocolate milk, under new nutrition guidelines released by the Biden administration....
News
To the Editor: Re “How Joe Biden Lost His Way in Gaza,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, April 21): The masterful, balanced and well-reasoned column...
Academies
Ofsted will train inspectors on artificial intelligence use and explore how the technology can help the school watchdog to make “better decisions”. The government...
News
For almost a quarter of a century, a coterie of the nation’s most elite universities had a legal shield: They would be exempt from...
News
Columbia University set a midnight deadline late on Tuesday for an encampment of student protesters to disband, after which New York City police could...
News
Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday to allow teachers and other school staff members to carry concealed handguns on school campuses. The measure,...
Policy
High rates of superintendent vacancies have caught the eye of concerned lawmakers in at least one state. Wisconsin legislators passed a bill to expand...
Policy
The politics of education today look very different from those of the Bush-Obama years, when Democrats for Education Reform got its start. The bipartisan...
Policy
LGBTQ+ students will receive explicit legal protection from sex discrimination and harassment under a long-awaited revision of Title IX rules the Biden administration released...
Leaders
School districts will be required to offer overtime pay to more employees under a federal rule finalized by the U.S. Department of Labor Tuesday,...
Leaders
As a teacher, I worked directly with kids. As a school leader, I work on behalf of kids. My days aren’t spent entirely in...
Leaders
When Kathleen Corley first started as a music teacher, she’d often be annoyed with her class—they didn’t want to learn what she was teaching....
News
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said he intended to call President Biden and demand that he take action, including potentially sending in the National...
Technology
A high school counselor can track what’s trending on TikTok by hearing what undiagnosed mental health or neurological condition her students think they have....
News
In response to pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the country, Brandeis, a historically Jewish university in Massachusetts, announced it would extend its deadline for...