education

The Massachusetts marching band performs before an NCAA college football game against Boston College in Amherst, Mass., in 2021.

Nearly half the states now allow in-state tuition for immigrant students

BY: - August 16, 2023

When Cristian Dubon Solis was getting ready to graduate from a Boston high school in 2020, he started planning to apply to college. It was only then he realized that as an immigrant lacking permanent legal status, he wouldn’t qualify for in-state tuition at Massachusetts state universities, nor for state-sponsored financial aid. With no way to […]

Students at Joshua Tree National Park.

‘This is the existential crisis’: A push for climate change education

BY: - June 27, 2023

When wildfires and smoke swept through Oregon in 2020, Lyra Johnson’s family made plans to evacuate their home near Portland. Johnson, then 14, was told she might have to quickly learn to drive — despite not having a license — in order to get her grandmother to safety. Thankfully, the danger passed before Johnson was […]

Fourth graders study in a view through a classroom window.

Debate over holding back third graders roils state legislatures

BY: - May 5, 2023

Should third graders who don’t read well enough to pass a standardized test repeat their grade? That question is roiling states, with some choosing to keep the practice, some to modify it and others to scrap it. Most states require students to take standardized tests that measure progress in reading and math in the third […]

A teacher waves to her students as they get off the bus at an elementary school in Louisville, Ky., as they return to school following a COVID-19 outbreak in January 2022.

4-day school weeks, gaining in popularity, face pushback from lawmakers

BY: - May 2, 2023

MINERAL WELLS, Texas — Desperate to fill open positions amid a statewide teacher shortage, school officials in this rural North Texas city of about 15,000 chose to follow the lead of neighboring districts by converting to a four-day school week at the start of the current student year. “We decided if we can’t beat them, […]