It’s not easy for school leaders to plan the perfect professional development for their teachers. Teachers often find sit-and-get PD boring, repetitive, or untethered to the skills they need. There’s also a sizeable gap in how principals and teachers view PD: In a nationally representative survey of over 1,400 teachers conducted in October 2023, the…
The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday touted its decision to give Iowa more control over spending federal education dollars—but the specifics of the newly approved flexibility fall far short of the Trump administration’s stated goal of converting most federal education funding to block grants. During a Jan. 7 press conference at Broadway Elementary School…
At least eight states are trying to crack down on attempts to remove books in school libraries, passing legislation that gives librarians more leeway in selecting materials, sets up formal processes for responding to challenges, and bars schools from pulling books from the shelves for ideological reasons. Dubbed “freedom to read” laws by supporters, this…
New York has joined California and Minnesota in passing a law requiring warning labels on social media platforms deemed to have addictive features. Platforms that offer feeds that the state considers addictive, and those with auto-play, or infinite scroll, will now be required to display a mental health warning when users open an app and…
The Minneapolis school district closed all schools a day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in the city this week, and federal law enforcement agents later arrived at a high school , where clashes between agents and civilians ensued, according to local reports. This appears to be the first…
Five years ago, the University of Southern California’s Pedro Noguera and I published In Search of Common Ground. In a time of intense polarization, the two of us—from different parts of the political spectrum—sought to find points of agreement and better understand our disagreements. As we wrote, I was repeatedly struck by the outsized role…
Newly announced guidance from the federal government that removes a half-dozen long-standing and common vaccines from the list of recommended immunizations for children could sow further mistrust in the shots among families and lead to unnecessary confusion and challenges for schools, according to experts on vaccine law and school health. This week, the U.S. Department…
Omar Muñoz trained as a chemical engineer and worked for almost 30 years as an industry executive, most recently in management at Intel Corporation in Chandler, Ariz. Recently, the mid-career professional began to re-evaluate his priorities and consider a new direction. His children were nearing high school, and he thought about how he could spend…
Yesterday, we unveiled the 2026 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. Of course, education research involves a lot of scholars doing very different kinds of work in very different fields. Thus, each year, some readers are more interested in how scholars fared within particular fields of study than in where scholars rank overall. With that in…
The finding aligns with a growing body of research suggesting that language plays a critical role in math learning. A 2021 meta-analysis of 40 studies found that students with stronger math vocabularies tend to perform better in math, particularly on multi-step, complex problems. Understanding what a “radius” is, for example, can make it more efficient…
