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Too hot for summer school?

Scorching temperatures test the limits of programs meant to help students catch up academically

The island without childcare for babies

Kaua’i spent at least a decade without a single opening for infants or toddlers at childcare centers, causing moms to quit their jobs or leave the island. Now, an effort is underway to change that.

Could a public campus really close? The fight to save Southern Oregon University

A financial crisis like those plaguing colleges across the country has led this rural, regional school to the brink

The next literacy challenge: Teaching students how to write

Facing political attack and falling enrollment, colleges take the fight to … each other

Education researchers warn political review of federal grants could reshape what gets studied

Tracking Trump: How he’s dismantling the Education Department and more

A week-by-week look at what the president has done so far on education

As international enrollment falls, U.S. students face program cuts and higher prices

HHS removes nearly one-fifth of sessions from early childhood research conference

In California’s ‘Lithium Valley,’ students are training for jobs that haven’t yet materialized

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OPINION: Walking away from education technology isn’t the answer to the latest backlash

OPINION: How a small town in rural Maine built a public school that serves a whole community, including infants and toddlers

OPINION: Poor Southern states have a brain drain problem. Public universities can and should be doing more to help

OPINION: The days of ‘good guy’ capitalists are over. College students are right to turn against the tech elites

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The next literacy challenge: Teaching students how to write

Facing political attack and falling enrollment, colleges take the fight to … each other

OPINION: Walking away from education technology isn’t the answer to the latest backlash

OPINION: How a small town in rural Maine built a public school that serves a whole community, including infants and toddlers

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Schools try to block kids from accessing dangerous content and games online. Little kids are outsmarting them

More Early Childhood

Key to helping boys in school: Make them feel safe to be themselves

Blending algebra and geometry: An approach to high school math slowly gains favor

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Threats of more closings have colleges and students worrying about how to save themselves

Advertising, training fairs, free tuition: How one state is trying to get more men into college

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Math Matters

Unequal offerings, unequal outcomes: We explore the nation’s math education crisis

Faster solutions, lower test scores: How AI is eroding math skills

Blending algebra and geometry: An approach to high school math slowly gains favor

SURVEY: What do you want to learn about math education? What are journalists missing when they write about math education?

Remembering our friend and colleague Fazil Khan, a year later

Khan, who moved to the U.S. from India to attend Columbia Journalism School, was a beloved colleague and star data journalist dedicated to exposing injustice

Climate change vs. schools

The toll of climate change on kids and how education adapts.

In Texas, high schools bet on a bright future for oil and gas careers under Trump

Data centers, air pollution, climate math: Lessons from a climate and education conference

Getting boys in on climate action

Child care under strain

The American child care system is fragile.

Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free child care center for city workers

Lessons from the first state in the nation to offer universal child care

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Texas fue pionero en dar matrículas estatales para los inmigrantes indocumentados. Ahora está dando marcha atrás.

El sistema de cuidado infantil de Estados Unidos depende de los inmigrantes. Sin ellos, podría colapsar

El College Board cancela programa de premios para estudiantes negros y latinos de alto rendimiento

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