The educator shortage could be addressed with more competitive pay and better working conditions, Miguel Cardona said. More competitive pay — not lowering standards for educators — should be a key part of addressing a national teacher shortage, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Sunday on…
Washington Post The Biden administration has created a plan to bring 7.5 million Americans in default on their federal student loans back into good standing, restoring their eligibility for financial aid and removing the incident from their credit history, according to documents obtained by The…
SOURCE:WSJ.COM Will gifted-and-talented school programs still exist in five years? Controversy has ramped up around the longtime practice of providing accelerated classes for selected students. Racial-justice movements highlighted inequalities, prompting changes in districts across the nation. Lawsuits related to these programs are pending in states…
ILLUSTRATION: SOL COTTI SOURCE: WSJ In one vision of classrooms of the near future, young children will put on headsets and read sentences aloud as they navigate computer programs powered by speech-recognition technology. Behind the scenes, that technology will listen to each student and spit…
Advances in artificial intelligence and the metaverse will change the world we live in—and bring new classes to curriculums in coming years. Students will need to learn new skills, as well as hone some older ones, to keep up in fast-developing fields, educators say. Here’s…
A new report estimates that it may take students at least three to five years to recover from the pandemic. Federal relief money will most likely have run out by then. After the coronavirus pandemic sent a jolt through the American education system, interrupting the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Aaliyah Manning’s dreams of becoming a psychologist ended abruptly during her freshman year at Potomac State in West Virginia when the cost of continuing her education became overwhelming. “The money just wasn’t there,” she said. “I knew I wasn’t going to finish…
When Phyllis Glink took a job at the Irving Harris Foundation 26 years ago, “we were by far the biggest funders in early childhood because there weren’t that many of us,” she recalls. A group of maybe a dozen foundations interested in early-childhood issues would…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Students who used federal loans to attend ITT Technical Institute as far back as 2005 will automatically get that debt canceled after authorities found “widespread and pervasive misrepresentations” at the defunct for-profit college chain, the Biden administration announced Tuesday. The action will…
MSCS Named a Level 5 School District Posted on Monday, August 15, 2022 For the first time since the 2014-15 school year, Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) is a Level 5 school district, the highest distinction available based on TVAAS composite scores. Student performance in both…