High school apprenticeships are slowly spreading, as young people become more disillusioned with four-year college and ...

In a time when respectful debate seems impossible, high school speech and debate clubs have persevered. Debate team members and sponsors see the activity as even more important in a fracturing society ...

Izzy, 18, had spent her senior year of high school online. Then she’d gone straight to online summer school at a local community college near Denver. When in-person classes there started this past ...

The first two times I tried college, I didn’t finish. There was never enough time to care for my young son, work a full-time job and do my schoolwork. And there was never enough money to pay rent, ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is best known for tests that track reading and math achievement but includes other subjects too. In early 2024, when the main reading and math ...

The repercussions from the decimation of staff at the Education Department keep coming. Last week, the fallout led to a delay in releasing results from a national science test. This story also ...

The Pocket Park Kids,’ which my 4-year-old and I saw together, intends to make it fun for kids to learn how to save the planet.

High school staff often treat students they suspect of gang involvement differently, tracking them into classes that leave ...

An affordable bachelor’s degree remains the No. 1 lever for financial, professional and social mobility in America — and we need more college graduates. Yet supports for first-generation college ...

The blows keeping coming, from the end of affirmative action to outright interference in who leads college campuses.

I recently stood before hundreds of young people in California’s Central Valley; more than 60 percent were on that day becoming the first in their family to earn a bachelor’s degree. Their very ...