1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (606+ words) In 2022, when the Internal Revenue Service raised the educator expense deduction for the first time since its inception in 2002from $250 to $300it felt to some like a slap in the face. "The amount is just so small, it's a joke," Pauline Stavrou,…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1234+ words) On a sunny Wednesday morning this March, teachers at Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park, Ill. , slowly filtered into a before-school, all-staff meeting on artificial intelligence. As teachers fired up their laptops and sipped coffee, the presenters at the front…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (566+ words) Attorneys for two Minnesota school districts and the state's main teachers union asked a federal judge this week to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct enforcement actions in and near…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (900+ words) Politicians have long called on schools to promote character and responsible decision-making, often pointing to fears of waning American competitiveness or societal declines if they fail to do so. Over a span of decades, those conversations have snowballed and evolved,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (243+ words) However, generative AI's ever-growing presence raises important questions for educators: Does this hierarchical framework still reflect the mental skills teachers should be cultivating in their students? And should we perhaps abandon Bloom's framework altogether? Before generative AI, creation'synthesizing ideas from…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (720+ words) Getting high school students excited about teaching can significantly expand the pipeline of diverse educators'but mentorship and support determine whether those new teachers return to the districts that trained them. That's the crux of a decadelong causal evaluation of one…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (686+ words) The "science of reading" has received a tremendous amount of public attention over the past few years. How has that public discourse impacted the classroom? Today's post will focus on its impact on English learners. Altagracia (Grace) Delgado is the…...

3+ day, 34+ min ago  (810+ words) Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of another contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms. Religious leaders, teachers,…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (696+ words) Helping students identified as English learners to acquire the English language often requires funding on top of general education spending to cover the cost of additional instructional resources, teachers, aides, and other supports. But experts say the amount needed to…...

4+ day, 48+ min ago  (970+ words) President Donald Trump is once again proposing to slash more than $8 billion from federal programs for K-12 education. But that doesn't mean schools should immediately brace for cuts of that magnitude. Congress still has until Sept. 30 to approve a budget for…...