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Education

From classroom policies to student outcomes, we explore the shifting landscape of education and offer insight into how these changes affect the next generation.

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A quarter-century after 9/11, whether students learn about the attacks often depends on where they live. Most states have no mandate.
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25 years after 9/11, most states still do not require its history to be taught


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  • A loophole in the Higher Education Act meant homeschool graduates weren't counted as high school ones. The House of Representatives passed legislation to close it.
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    Mar 4
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    Congress targets obscure legal loophole keeping some homeschoolers out of jobs

  • Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer's approval rating at an all-time low; and Texas to fix 4,000 mistakes in Bible-filled curriculum.
    Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Paul Hennesy/Anadolu via Getty Images
    Mar 2
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    Schumer’s approval rating hits record low; Texas moves to fix thousands of errors in Bible-filled curriculum

  • The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that it's too early to determine the constitutionality of a Louisiana law that requires public schools display the Ten Commandments in their classroom — meaning it can be enforced.
    Douglas Sacha/Getty Images
    Feb 21
    3m read

    Court allows Louisiana law requiring 10 commandments in schools to take effect

  • Feb 12
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    Inside the plan to move charter schools into public buildings

  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the department is cutting its academic ties with Harvard University.
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    Feb 7
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    Hegseth says Defense Department is cutting ties with Harvard

  • For more than 60 years, many people seeking raw, country-by-country economic and population data have turned to the CIA’s World Factbook. But this week, the "gold standard" for global statistics went dark. On Wednesday, the agency quietly shuttered the online reference, replacing it with a farewell note that urged readers to "stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it… in person or virtually."
    SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
    Feb 6
    5m read

    Goodbye, Factbook: CIA shuts down world reference publication after six decades

  • One Texas group is trying to make a difference in children's reading rates by trading time spent reading for a new bike.
    Jon Shapley for SAN
    Dec 24, 2025
    10m read

    Can giving kids bikes help them learn to read? In this city, it works

  • Thousands of high school seniors received an early holiday gift this month: admission to their first choice college through early decision, often called “ED.” With binding ED, students apply to one school in November, agree to enroll if admitted and receive an answer in mid-December — months before many of their peers will even apply through the regular admission cycle. 
    Ali Caldwell
    Dec 22, 2025
    6m read

    As elite college admissions tighten, early decision faces new scrutiny

  • The statue of Barbara Rose Johns stands in the U.S. Capitol, in place of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Johns is honored for her fight against segregation in education.
    Aul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images
    Dec 18, 2025
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    The Civil War ended 160 years ago. Why is Robert E. Lee trending today?

  • Head Start, an early-childhood network that pairs classroom learning with health and family support systems for infants through preschoolers at 1,600 local agencies, now faces new language curbs on its grant requests. According to court filings, federal officials sent applicants a six-page list of roughly 200 terms to remove, a directive that providers say conflicts with their duties to deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate services and support.
    Getty Images – Royalty Free
    Dec 12, 2025
    3m read

    Preschool network Head Start sues feds over ‘word ban’ of DEI terms

  • According to a new poll, 63% of registered voters no longer see the value in a college degree, a 20-point increase compared to 12 years ago.
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    Nov 30, 2025
    4m read

    Big myth on campus: Most Americans no longer see value in a college degree

  • Northwestern agreed to pay the Trump administration $75 million through 2028, over a federal funding freeze amid campus protests.
    Max Herman/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect
    Nov 29, 2025
    4m read

    Trump admin to unfreeze Northwestern’s funding after $75M agreement

  • The California State Board of Education announced they’ve officially approved HMH’s “Into Math California” for grades K-8.
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    Nov 20, 2025
    6m read

    California schools to give students AI to help in math

  • West Point's cadets say that the CLDT program "builds our lethality" and offers lessons to take into future Army leadership roles.
    West Point
    Nov 19, 2025
    4m read

    Cadet leadership course transforming future US Army leaders

  • West Point
    Nov 19, 2025
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    West Point cadets: Lessons in leadership, for the future of the Army

  • An Indiana University professor has reportedly been removed from teaching a class on social justice after she used a graphic that labeled the “Make America Great Again” slogan a covert form of white supremacy. The school took action against the professor under a new state law claiming to encourage “intellectual diversity.”
    Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images
    Nov 14, 2025
    4m read

    Professor who criticized MAGA suspended with ‘intellectual diversity’ law

  • One school is facing a sharp drop in incoming students’ math skills and is adopting new measures to identify and support those who need help.
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    Nov 12, 2025
    3m read

    UCSD has to offer middle-school math classes to freshmen

  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness overhaul could reshape eligibility by 2026
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    Oct 31, 2025
    5m read

    Public Service Loan Forgiveness overhaul could reshape eligibility by 2026

  • Head Start preschool programs may close across the country later this week because of the federal government shutdown.
    Rebecca Blackwell / The Associated Press
    Oct 28, 2025
    3m read

    Head Start programs could close due to government shutdown

  • Universities propositioned by the White House to receive preferential treatment in terms of federal funding in exchange for agreeing to President Donald Trump’s policy changes are either radio silent or outright rejecting the deal. 
    Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
    Oct 17, 2025
    4m read

    Trump adding schools as colleges turn down funding offer for policy changes

  • Penn and USC have become the latest two universities to reject the Trump administration’s offer of favored treatment for government funding.
    Mario Tama/Getty Images
    Oct 17, 2025
    3m read

    Penn, USC are latest schools to reject Trump funding deal

  • Indiana University terminated its director of student media, Jim Rodenbush, who oversaw the university’s print newspaper, The Indiana Daily Student, according to a letter from the editors published on the paper’s website.
    AP Photo/Darron Cummings
    Oct 16, 2025
    3m read

    Indiana University fires director amid student paper censorship controversy

  • Layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education were issued for an office that’s tasked with serving 8.5 million special education students.
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    Oct 14, 2025
    4m read

    8.5M students to lose special education resources following Ed Dept layoffs

  • Atlanta’s population appears to grow exponentially. But a closer look at annual reports suggests the hot city is now cooling off.
    Oct 14, 2025
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    After a decades-long population boom, Atlanta’s growth is slowing down

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