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A veteran school administrator offers insights on how children’s caretakers can better prepare them for a new school year.
Three years observing in a public school has given one scholar a close-up look at the sweeping challenges in public education.
Different views of gentrification drive divisions that keep school activists separated by race.
Community members want their schools to address issues beyond academics, new research suggests.
Research has shown for more than a century that students fall behind during the summer break. An expert offers six tips on ways to help children keep up their academic skills during the summer.
The effort to give every student equal access to an education has lasted decades and may need even more time before the goal is reached.
In the first study of its kind, researchers found medication alone has no detectable impact on how much children with ADHD learn in the classroom.
An expert on food policy explains how the end of COVID-19 waivers will impact children’s access to food, as well as the importance of food banks and pantries.
Waiting for kids to show signs of distress has little value, says a researcher who is pushing schools to take a more proactive approach toward student mental health.
Schoolteachers routinely report feeling ill-prepared to guide their students through difficult conversations about high-profile violent events.
In middle school classes, students from lower-income families tended to be concentrated in just a few classrooms, new research from North Carolina has found.
Children who are bullied in school are at higher risk for depression and anxiety later in life.
School districts throughout the nation are beginning to heed calls to give students and teachers a day off in observance of the Eid al Fitr, a major Islamic holiday held at the end of Ramadan.
Music education in Minneapolis public schools stood out as one of the best and gave rise to the city’s music scene that helped propel Prince to fame, a scholar writes.
School districts across the nation are wrestling with whether to have police officers on school grounds.
Interviews and surveys with hundreds of teachers and school administrators reveal the effect of persistent staffing shortages on school personnel – and on students.
Despite signals of increased turnover, the past two years have not experienced mass departures from the teaching profession.
School districts across the US are starting to pay subs more and make it easier to become a sub – in an effort to keep classrooms operating despite large numbers of staff out sick.
School shootings are typically preceded by a series of warning signs. Are educators, police and policymakers paying enough attention?
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