Education

School districts across the U.S. are adopting mental health practices as a part of their daily schedules and curriculums. Yoga, meditation and mindfulness exercises are being implemented alongside traditional reading, math and science lessons.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

Oklahoma’s top education official is ordering public schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades 5 through 12.

Some leaders are considering cellphone bans to maintain a distraction-free learning environment.

Many U.S. school districts are considering cellphone bans designed to maintain a distraction-free learning environment.

Elijah Hogan came through a senior year of high school in a homeless shelter to make it to the top of his class.

Nationally, students made up one-third of their pandemic losses in math during the past school year and one-quarter of the losses in reading, according to the Education Recovery Scorecard.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee kicks off the week of May 28. Test your spelling knowledge with this interactive quiz.

The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling and desegregation orders were only the first steps toward the elusive goal of equitable education. For many Black families, school choice has been critical to finding at least the option that works best for them. And that has not necessarily meant the school with the highest levels of racial integration. Some families...

From free frozen yogurt to free flowers, restaurants, brands and retailers are helping to make Mother’s Day easy and affordable this year.

When it comes to the people who help teach our children reading, writing, arithmetic and so many other important life lessons, we can’t thank them enough. That’s why a nationwide effort known as Teacher Appreciation Week rolls around every year to give us all a chance to give our endless thanks to educators.

The Toussaint L’Ouverture Academy is teaching Creole fluency while also helping families by easing translation burdens for children of immigrant parents.

The U.S. Department of Education recently said that it will soon transfer some student loan borrowers to different servicers. Here’s what you need to know.

More and more, parents are opting America’s children out of public school.

About 15% of teachers say a gun-related lockdown happened once during the 2022-23 school year, and 8% said it happened more than once, according to findings from the Pew Research Center.

A high school teacher and two students are suing Arkansas over the state’s ban on critical race theory in public schools. The lawsuit was filed Monday by the teacher and students from Little Rock Central High School.

Engineer majors earn double that of liberal arts majors five years after college.

The U.S. Education Department says it discovered a calculation error in hundreds of thousands of student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them, a blunder that follows a series of others and threatens further delays to this year’s college applications.

Parents are keenly aware of the distractions and the mental health issues associated with smartphones and social media, but teachers say they might not realize how much those struggles play out at school.

Over more than three hours of discussion about a proposal to stop using MCAS exam scores as a high school graduation requirement, lawmakers kept returning to one specific question: if the measure passed, how would Massachusetts ensure that every school district has roughly the same baseline for determining if students have earned their diplomas? Opponents of the idea, including former…