There’s a confusing trend going on in the nation’s classrooms: While national test scores have dropped to levels not seen in decades, average high school GPAs are actually climbing. Grading systems ...

If you ask most educators where college and career readiness (CCR) begins, many will point to high school. That’s when many students start thinking seriously about graduation requirements, dual ...

America’s schools are moving quickly to respond to the rise of artificial intelligence, with parents, teachers, administrators, and lawmakers working to wrap their arms around what this means for ...

Personally and professionally, the fact that some students don’t see school as relevant is hard to admit. It would be simpler to say that today’s kids and families need to try harder to get out of the ...

As the school year begins, teachers often devote significant time to planning lessons, reviewing standards, organizing classrooms, and establishing routines. While these are all essential components ...

But the real promise of AI isn’t that it helps teachers produce more. It’s that it helps educators protect more time for the human work of teaching. When technology reduces the hours spent formatting ...

Adolescence is one of the most consequential periods of human development, yet the environments designed to support it often fail to reflect its complexity. Spanning ages 10 to 18, this stage is ...

For as long as school has existed, so has the parental question: How are my kids doing? For nearly two centuries, educators have used some type of report card to communicate with families how their ...

Timing matters. In densely populated areas of the country, first responders may be minutes away from the scene. But in other parts of the country, response times can be much longer. Nationwide, ...

Student perspectives further reinforce these principles. When adolescents are asked to imagine their ideal learning environments, they consistently emphasize flexibility, autonomy, collaboration, and ...

School safety emergencies are inherently chaotic, frightening, and made even more perilous by a lack of real-time visibility once an emergency is underway. In an active shooter incident, first ...

As students return to classrooms across America this fall, parents are focused on school supplies, class schedules, and academic expectations. Teachers are preparing lesson plans, organizing ...