New research finds half of LGBTQ young people live in the 27 states where a swell of new laws restrict their in-school rights

Over two days of chaotic meetings, RFK Jr.’s newly handpicked CDC advisory group updated vaccine recommendations, including for measles and COVID. @amandageduld.bsky.social reports

Links between hunger and learning are clear. This federal food program helps child care providers feed children, supporting their capacity to learn

AI is exacerbating a feeling that since the pandemic, the classroom dynamic has grown transactional www.the74million.org/article/anot...

McDonald: We should look at our children’s distinct educational needs and interests, and say “yes” when they want a change

Developmental trajectories of children with and without reading disabilities start to diverge around 18 months, rather than at 5 or 6 years old

The Trump administration’s First Amendment crackdown in the wake of the activist’s violent death leaves student free speech on even shakier ground

Half of teachers expect to buy food for students this school year, survey finds www.the74million.org/article/half...

“over the last decade, [achievement] declines have not been about specific student groups. Instead, the story is largely about a growing divergence between higher- and lower-performing kids” Read my latest piece @the74.bsky.social --> www.the74million.org/article/stud...

Opinion: How AI in my classroom has helped me create lightbulb moments for my students

Career certificates boom in high school, but not all have value. @patrickonews.bsky.social reports

New study finds that students who do high-intensity interval workouts prior to taking a test score far better on verbal comprehension

Amid Trump’s calls to ID and institutionalize people with psychiatric disabilities, HHS revives a second discredited theory of autism’s cause

A recent survey of nearly 1,000 K-12 teachers found that about half had seen “equitable” grading policies used in their school or district and most reported the approach hurt academic engagement. @amandaaudi.bsky.social reports www.the74million.org/article/a-th...

Analysis: Student achievement is down overall, but kids at the bottom are sinking faster. Read more here from @chadaldeman.bsky.social:

Undocumented preschoolers can stay in Head Start for now

Study: Students' math decline dovetails with math wars, teacher pipeline issues

New Mexico will become the first state to offer universal child care

Poor NAEP showing prompts call for cell phone bans

Exclusive: Superintendent churn is up, but more districts choose women leaders www.the74million.org/article/excl...

Undocumented preschoolers can stay in Head Start — for now. @jonapolitano.bsky.social reports

We're thrilled to announce that The 74's @jonapolitano.bsky.social won INN's Breaking Barriers award, large division. Her investigation, Unwelcome to America, exposed how hundreds of U.S. high schools wrongfully refused entry to an older, immigrant student

Podcast: Key lessons from New Orleans' post-Katrina education experiment. Listen here:

Opinion:What the U.S. military gets right about child care

Analysis: Are kids making progress in reading?

Apprenticeships aimed at boosting child care careers have been flourishing

Team teaching model aims to help Michigan schools retain teachers

Opinion: English teachers work to instill the joy of reading. Testing gets in the way

Opinion: English teachers work to instill the joy of reading. Testing gets in the way

Q&A: John White on New Orleans schools' 'protracted march toward a basic civil right'

Confusion as kids head back to school and RFK Jr. calls the shots on vaccines

Young readers leap, middle schoolers sink as Indiana fights back from pandemic

Opinion: A political and societal toxic stew makes this a dangerous time for K-12 education

Why are so few kids reading for pleasure? @gtoppo.bsky.social reports

Analysis: How New Orleans has 'rebooted' its schools in the 20 years since Katrina. Listen here:

School admin unions on the rise since COVID, with 11 new locals in eight states

Q&A: Kids shouldn't access social media until they're old enough to drive, book says

New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina part one: Reopening in the flood zone

🥳 Our own @markkeierleber.bsky.social has won ONA's Journalism Award for Excellence in Technology Reporting for his investigation "Kept in the Dark." Huge congrats to Mark, his editor @kjmoc.bsky.social & all this year's winners: awards.journalists.org/winners/2025/ #OJA25

Podcast: 7,000 New Orleans teachers lost jobs after Hurricane Katrina. Here's how the city rebuilt

Hill: CRPE researchers were there at the start. The key lesson: Always be nimble in response to new educational challenges and possibilities

Some 15 years after disastrous debut, Common Core math endures in many states

No idea too radical: Inside New Orleans' dramatic K-12 turnaround after Katrina

Trump administration takes on school emails as parental rights issue

Q&A: On Katrina's 20th anniversary, Patrick Dobard revisits NOLA reboot. @bethhawkins.bsky.social reports

Gupta: How the most dramatic education transformation in modern America became too uncomfortable for anyone to talk about

K-12 chronic absenteeism rates down from peak, but remain persistently high. @amandageduld.bsky.social reports

Court temporarily blocks ban on bargaining by Department of Defense teachers unions. @laurenwreports.bsky.social reports

A change to the Child Tax Credit requires children and at least one parent to have a Social Security Number. Here’s what that could mean for families www.the74million.org/zero2eight/w...

From @the74.bsky.social: Across the country, teachers unions have been challenging the constitutionality of their states’ private school voucher programs in court. In Wyoming and Utah, judges ruled in favor of the unions — at least for now.