The move to assume broad powers over the Providence school system illustrates both the attraction and challenges of high-profile approaches to troubled or low-performing schools and districts.

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.

In this fourth installment on the growth in dual-language learning, the director of dual-language education in Portland, Ore., says schools must have a clear reason for why they are offering dual-language instruction.

Chief technology officers are facing an unprecedented test of digital preparedness due to the coronavirus pandemic, struggling with shortfalls of available learning devices and huge Wi-Fi access challenges.

A federal appeals court rejected a multi-pronged challenge to a school district plan allowing transgender students to use restrooms and other facilities that match their gender identity.

Young people deserve a say in how to keep their communities safe, writes high school student M’munga Songolo.

In addition to a delay, Wisconsin had to eliminate certain questions from its Smarter Balanced exam, after opting not to use the adaptive testing feature of the test.

Two rural North Dakota school districts will switch to a four-day school week to save costs and improve student and teacher morale.

North Dakota is the latest state to make a push for integrating Native American or other ethnic studies into school curricula.

Facing big transportation costs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some school districts will pay parents or caregivers to get their kids to school, or charge them for the bus ride.

An Ohio appellate court struck down a district's policy allowing staff members to carry concealed weapons in school with 24 hours of "active shooter/killer training."

High school teacher Jenefer Pasqua is running for Wyoming's state legislature to fight against education funding cuts.

Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school, has died at the age of 86.

The pandemic has made it harder for teachers to access the moral rewards of their work, writes education professor Doris A. Santoro.

The mix of hybrid learning approaches is dizzying, but schools are learning valuable lessons about what is worth replicating.

Two infectious disease experts weigh in on how a COVID-19 vaccine that’s 90 percent effective, as early results are showing, could change school health and safety protocols.

What do students who have experienced a loss need in the classroom? Brittany R. Collins digs into the science.

A collection of stories from the previous week that you may have missed.

Here are strategies for creating strong, respectful, productive relationships between superintendents and school boards.

After a summer of protests over racial injustice, school districts are embracing anti-bias programs. The problem is: Few studies show they work.

COVID-19 has revealed stark inequities, but education leaders should seize the moment to dismantle them, writes Sonja Brookins Santelises.