1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (761+ words) A Senate committee advanced legislation Thursday aimed at undoing the Trump administration’s efforts to split apart the U.S. Department of Education. The bill delivers the plan the biggest rebuke since Education Secretary Linda McMahon began shifting offices to other agencies…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago   (694+ words) Jessika Harkay is a Connecticut-based staff reporter at The 74. A bill that would require states to only use the science of reading in classrooms in order to qualify for a multi-million dollar funding grant passed with bipartisan support from a…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago   (646+ words) Anahit Baghshetsyan is a policy analyst at Nevada Policy and a data science policy fellow at 50CAN. It is impossible to imagine a future that does not have data science embedded in our daily lives. The field combines statistics, coding, and…...

1+ day, 37+ min ago   (619+ words) In a three-hour hearing Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the influential scientist who led the national response to COVID, refused to respond to questions about his role in school closures and the mask and social distancing guidelines that experts say have…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (897+ words) Greg Toppo is a senior writer at The 74. In Carlsbad, N.M., a tiny district in the southeastern corner of the state, nine of its 12 schools have turned teacher assignments upside-down, inviting their best teachers to coach a team of colleagues, model…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (703+ words) Jennie Park is an English language development and English teacher in California. She began her career in 1995 and continues to find joy in helping students through education. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a double major in English and Economics…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (861+ words) Kevin Mahnken is a senior writer at The 74. With an eye on the clock, the Gates Foundation refreshed its vision for American schools Wednesday morning, unveiling a set of five-year goals intended to ease students’ transition to college graduation and…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (582+ words) There’s a long-held misconception that students’ opportunities are constrained by the size of their town. In many people’s minds, rural career and technical education and career-connected learning are synonymous with agriculture and manufacturing, while college prep is limited to a…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (576+ words) Wayne D’Orio is a New York area writer and editor specializing in education. His stories have covered a wide range of issues from higher education inside prisons to Boston's struggle to hire Black teachers to the high school curricula tied…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (749+ words) Nearly 6 million children in California would be eligible for a scholarship under the new federal tax credit for education, more than in any other state, new data shows. But unlike other states with millions of eligible students, like Texas, Florida…...