Public Schools

How do you keep rural schools open when enrollment is declining and small towns are emptying out?

Georgia's Fulton County is among a number of suburban districts turning to national non-profit AVID to shrink achievement gaps and get students of color ready for college.

Several states have recently introduced bills that could interfere with the teaching of scientifically founded theories on climate change in public school science curricula.

Voters in Arizona will decide whether to move forward with a program that would allow all students to receive public money for private school.

Unions in the state have been unable to force public-employees to contribute to collective bargaining funds for almost 65 years, and yet they have managed to thrive.

A study by the Government Accountability Office finds that black students, boys, and students with disabilities were disproportionately disciplined.

Is a new model of teacher protest emerging?

Public school teachers and their supporters protest against a pension reform bill at the Kentucky State Capitol on April 2nd, 2018, in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Teachers participate in a one-day strike against the government's privatization drive in public education, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 19th, 2018.

New technologies in the workplace are so ubiquitous that we barely notice them, but it's taken longer for these tools to take hold in classrooms.

We’ll continue to work toward discovering why more and more kids are being diagnosed, but in the meantime we need to provide help for the ones who are already on the spectrum. One frustrated mom proposes 10 easy-to-implement solutions.