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The judge overseeing a 10-year-old legal agreement indicated he will end court oversight by the end of the year.| www.the74million.org
It was in physical education class when Laila Gutierrez swapped out self-harm for a new vice. The freshman from Phoenix had long struggled with depression and would cut her arms to feel something. Anything. The first drag from a friend’s vape several years ago offered the shy teenager a new way to escape. She quit […]| The 74
The White House took giant steps Tuesday toward breaking up the U.S. Department of Education and spreading key K-12 functions across other agencies, moves that many consider a violation of federal law. The Department of Labor will “co-manage” the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education by administering roughly $28 billion in grant funds through an […]| The 74
When I first arrived at Monte Vista Elementary over 20 years ago, it was evident that the school was full of dedicated students and teachers. But the numbers told a different story. Many children entered with limited early literacy and numeracy skills, and as a result, overall performance ranked near the bottom of the district […]| The 74
Around the country, school districts have invested time and money to adopt a high-quality curriculum, only to find the boxes unopened and the digital materials rarely, if ever, accessed. What’s the problem? The truth is, adopting and implementing a new curriculum isn’t simply an educational challenge — it’s a human behavior problem. For students to […]| The 74
Dionne Miller, who runs Room to Bloom Learning Academy, a child care program in Indianapolis, has been faced with some impossible choices over the past year. In December, Indiana’s Family and Social Services Administration announced that, due to the end of pandemic-era federal relief funding, it would stop enrolling new children in its main child […]| The 74
The chatbot developer Character.AI has said it will ban users under 18 years old from using its virtual companions, an unprecedented move that comes after the mother of a 14-year-old user sued the company in federal court last year, saying the boy talked to a Character.AI chatbot almost constantly in the months before he killed […]| The 74
The judge overseeing a 10-year-old legal agreement indicated he will end court oversight by the end of the year.| www.the74million.org
When six Southern public university systems this summer formed a new accreditation agency, the move shook the national evaluation model that higher education has relied on for decades. The news wasn’t unexpected: It arrived a few months after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in April overhauling the nation’s accreditation system by, among other […]| The 74
West Virginia schools continue to lose students, a continuing problem that has contributed to a wave of proposed school closures and consolidations around the state. State Schools Superintendent Michele Blatt said schools have lost 2.5% of their students in the past year. The state’s enrollment is now 234,957 students for this current school year, Blatt […]| The 74
A Northwestern study finds students in Oakland’s MathBOOST program made major math gains — thanks to community members trained as high-dose tutors.| www.the74million.org
When Clarice Jackson raised concerns in 2000 about her adopted daughter’s inability to read two or three letter words by the fourth grade, she was told by Nebraska school officials it was because of the child’s early home life and her misbehavior in class. When Ohio mother Joy Palmer raised concerns in 2013 her daughter […]| The 74
A dearth of drivers has a particularly pronounced effect on students with disabilities.| www.the74million.org
When The 74 started looking for schools that were doing a good job teaching kids to read, we began with the data. We crunched the numbers for nearly 42,000 schools across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. and identified 2,158 that were beating the odds by significantly outperforming what would be expected given their student […]| The 74
Pruden and Rodriguez: Even before children can read, they think visually – just like adults.| www.the74million.org
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Nearly 9,000 children across 16 states and Puerto Rico remained locked out of Head Start programming as of Friday evening, according to the National Head Start Association, despite the federal government’s reopening on Wednesday night. For some programs, the promise of incoming funding will be enough to restart operations. But many won’t be able to […]| The 74
Maia Jackson should have been cranking out a research paper for her communications class. Instead, she found herself queuing up at a food pantry to secure groceries for her household amid the nation’s longest government shutdown. “I walked out with a shopping cart full of food,” the 25-year-old college senior said. “I could barely carry […]| The 74
Senate lawmakers on Monday advanced legislation that would launch the most comprehensive overhaul of New Jersey’s regulation of charter schools in 30 years. The bill advanced by the Senate Education Committee on Monday would outright ban for-profit charter schools, require them to post a range of documents online, and impose residency requirements for some charter […]| The 74
LEWISTOWN — Slaughterhouses and butchers used to be scattered throughout the United States, numbering about 10,000 in 1967. Only about 3,000 remain and about 85% of the American meatpacking industry is controlled by four companies: JBS, Tyson Foods, Cargill and Smithfield. The other 15% of that market share is held in part by small and very […]| The 74
Wisconsin lawmakers are exploring ways to make it easier for school districts to consolidate as they face declining enrollment and financial difficulties. There are 421 school districts in the state of Wisconsin and about two-thirds are struggling with declining enrollment. According to preliminary numbers from the Department of Public Instruction, enrollment for public school districts […]| The 74
In July, a group of teenagers hacked an educational technology company that serves thousands of school districts across the United States. Two months later, they told the company, their peers and policymakers how they did it and why it was a good thing for them, the company and our country. No, you’re not experiencing déjà […]| The 74
After weeks of legal wrangling and piecemeal payouts, the federal food assistance program will be funded in full now that the nation’s record 43-day shutdown has ended. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, released guidance Thursday to states to proceed with full benefits for November and December. Child and […]| The 74
As we tremble, whether in fear or anticipation, about the changes artificial intelligence will bring, we risk missing a more urgent danger: letting machines erase our children’s ability to learn. AI promises to “think” faster, broader and beyond us. That sounds exciting but it spells disaster for the place we most depend on human growth: […]| The 74
The governor’s Council on Workforce and Apprenticeships convened on Thursday in Raleigh to discuss and vote on strategies that were drafted to achieve 11 goals related to workforce development in North Carolina. In a previous meeting in September, the council discussed the goals, which were first announced in June. A slew of strategies were approved […]| The 74
Updated Nov. 14 A video illustrates a cartoon Brachiosaurus trudging along. The dinosaur has bright colors and a friendly voice carefully designed to draw the attention of a toddler. As the green leaf-eater goes to speak, a banner ad floats across the screen. Experts caution that this experience can distract the child. “There’s advertising embedded […]| The 74
Five years after the height of the pandemic, students are still experiencing its negative impacts. Achievement remains below pre-pandemic levels, absenteeism is still elevated, and well-being — in particular, the mental health of students — continues to be stressed. There has been some progress, but far from what is needed to be able to say: […]| The 74
The U.S. Department of Education is expected to reopen for business Thursday after the longest government shutdown in history. Education Secretary Linda McMahon is likely to pick up where she left off 43 days ago, reshaping the federal role in school policy and trying to phase out the agency. The staff won’t be as small […]| The 74
Democrats’ romp in last week’s Virginia elections offered an almost complete redemption of their poor performance four years ago. In that race, Republican Glenn Youngkin upset national expectations to seize the governorship, with a raft of GOP challengers riding his coattails to both statewide office and a new majority in the House of Delegates. Their […]| The 74
If you’re a white student in a Los Angeles elementary school, the odds are stacked against you. Your chances of attending a school in which 7 out of 10 of your classmates can read at grade level are only 40%. That’s less than even odds. Asian students have it even worse: Only 29% attend a […]| The 74
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. At CART High near Fresno, there is no gum stuck to the floor. The saffron-yellow walls are unmarred by graffiti. Toting laptops, students file calmly down spacious, light-filled hallways to classes like biotechnology and digital marketing. There’s no fighting, no shouting, no bells. […]| The 74
The Center on Reinventing Public Education has been tracking the evolution of how districts and schools approach generative artificial intelligence since 2023. Today, CRPE is releasing an updated database for the 2025-26 school year. Since last year, more districts have been publicly sharing information about their AI strategies, and these are increasingly sophisticated and varied. […]| The 74
More than five years after the dawn of COVID-19, chronic absenteeism in U.S. schools remains high — at last count, it exceeded prepandemic levels for the fifth straight year. In about half of urban school districts, more than 30% of students were chronically absent, missing 10% or more of school days. And bedrock attitudes about […]| The 74
Program offering free preschool for low-income families was among nine statewide that didn’t get Nov. 1 federal grants as planned.| www.the74million.org
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Shaw: Students, teachers and administrators agree that engagement is important, but differ in how they define and measure it.| www.the74million.org
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Adams: Many students don't have access to teams — and even if they do, schools & families can't afford coaches, uniforms, equipment or transportation.| www.the74million.org
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Three Gen Z advocates on how the pandemic-era trend continues to grow, pointing to the need for colleges to rethink their outreach strategies.| www.the74million.org
Amid a wave of new research on the pandemic’s shattering effect on classrooms, one expert called it the ‘question that keeps me up at night.’| www.the74million.org
Fears of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law prevent children from discussing their families in class, drive parents away from engaging at their kids' schools| www.the74million.org
New hiring and talk of modernization led one researcher to say, ‘I am more hopeful than I was three months ago.’| www.the74million.org
As state authorities debate whether to make private school choice universal, critics are trying to dramatically limit them through the courts| www.the74million.org
Osborne: In 14 GOP-dominated states, Education Savings Accounts will upend equal opportunity and make school quality dependent on family wealth.| www.the74million.org
Chang & Allensworth: How schools in Chicago, Providence, Memphis, Kansas City are reducing chronic absenteeism with data, outreach and support.| www.the74million.org
States must ensure schools have solid data, and schools must help students use it| www.the74million.org
As more GOP governors turn to ESAs, some find the rules, as one former state chief put it, ‘incredibly permissive’| www.the74million.org
Moon: A new analysis shows these trends vary widely by race, grade level, geography, even schools. What that could mean for the future.| www.the74million.org
DiMarco: The reasons vary widely by grade. Understanding which students are missing school, and why, is essential for developing targeted solutions.| www.the74million.org
A poll commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation finds public open to more “relevant,” “useful” math that reflects students’ lives| www.the74million.org
A T74 special series covering the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding of New Orleans’ schools.| The 74
Gupta: How the most dramatic education transformation in modern America became too uncomfortable for anyone to talk about.| www.the74million.org
States that ambitiously pledged to cut chronic absenteeism in half are doing better than national average, but it’s not enough, one expert said.| www.the74million.org
The newest episode of ‘Where the Schools Went’ spotlights the tumultuous reopening of George Washington Carver High in the Ninth Ward.| www.the74million.org
Much has been written about the city’s long road to recovery. Behind those headlines is another story that shaped the lives of thousands of children.| www.the74million.org
Huffman and Jefferson: Tutoring isn’t just an investment in students – it’s an investment in our country’s future.| www.the74million.org
Carone: Youth sports are considered just a physical outlet for kids. What we’re overlooking is the depth of learning and development happening there.| www.the74million.org
Cohen: Start by improving data, so it's clear who is missing school, and putting an end to messaging that implies skipping class isn't a big deal| www.the74million.org
A Massachusetts judge sided with education groups who allege March’s mass layoffs amounted to a shutdown of the agency without congressional approval.| www.the74million.org
The spread of private school choice programs are fueling growth, but public schools also see the model’s potential.| www.the74million.org
Parents can be jailed or face fines up to $10K. ‘No one wants a mug shot,’ said an Ohio mom who spent 9 days locked up.| www.the74million.org
Millions in local taxes, buses and schools could go from districts to charters, who educate more than half of students in Indianapolis, other cities| www.the74million.org
Aldeman: The leaders of 3 team-based teaching models talk about an alternative to the traditional one-classroom, one-teacher staffing plan.| www.the74million.org
Aldeman: In the last decade, achievement scores have been falling — and gaps have been widening. Why is a huge unanswered question| www.the74million.org
Khan’s chief learning officer says AI isn’t education’s 'golden ticket,' but can be 'an important tool in the toolbox' in improving student outcomes.| www.the74million.org
Even as Trump pushes to shutter the agency ‘immediately,’ the nominee said the move cannot be made without Congress: ‘We'd like to do this right.’| www.the74million.org
Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden| www.the74million.org
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Launching their mini-series on artificial intelligence, Michael & Diane dive into where the tech is useful in education — and where it’s disruptive.| www.the74million.org
But if confirmed as deputy secretary, she could find herself in culture war conflicts she’s previously sidestepped.| www.the74million.org
Aldeman: New data show school staffing levels continue to hit all-time highs.| www.the74million.org
Aldeman: Layoffs are coming in the next 2 to 3 years. The only questions are when, where and how bad they will be| www.the74million.org
Aldeman: Schools in 46 states effectively lowered their teacher-student ratios by continuing to hire while enrollment has dropped| www.the74million.org
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Aldeman: An all-time high in 2022-23, with 173,000 students & 159,000 employees, including 15,000 more teachers. See latest numbers.| www.the74million.org
One urges educators to prep for an artificial intelligence boom. The other warns that it could all go awry. Together, they offer a reality check.| www.the74million.org
Deans for Impact founder urges educators to ‘calm down’ and resist the ‘overhype and magical thinking’ that often accompany innovation.| www.the74million.org
AllHere, ed tech startup hired to build LAUSD’s lauded AI chatbot ‘Ed’, played fast and loose with sensitive records, ex-software engineer alleges.| www.the74million.org
Researchers unveil loopholes, laws & lack of protections allowing Black, brown, low-income students to be excluded from America’s most coveted schools| www.the74million.org
Aldeman: The easing of No Child Left Behind in 2012 set off a decline that is still being felt. Maybe it's time to bring back accountability| www.the74million.org
