Schools are struggling to get students to show up every day. Twenty-six percent of students are chronically absent, missing at least 10...

Chicago Public Schools doubled per-student spending since 2012, according to a report by the Illinois Policy Institute. Achievement is...

Nearly 200 low-income families living in Birmingham (Alabama) public housing qualified for a drawing worth $300 in rent and utility...

Worried about a nationwide epidemic of absenteeism, more schools are telling parents to send slightly sick children to school, reports...

High school students are back on the field, the court, the track and the pool, with participation in sports nearing pre-pandemic levels,...

Training teachers to "disrupt whiteness" isn't helping children learn at a Bay Area school, reports Jill Tucker in the San Francisco...

You can't win if you don't play. The only way to improve student achievement is to "get butts in seats," writes Jessica Grose in the New...

School is "like being in prison," says 14-year-old Kieran, who has dyslexia and ADHD. He prefers doing physical labor with his father....

Working for the summer pays off for teenagers from low-income families, concludes a study of Boston's summer job program. Winning the job...

Schools haven't returned to normal reports Alia Wong for USA Today. An alarming number of students are "missing vast stretches of their...

"Equitable grading" is supposed to be fairer to students who have trouble completing homework, getting to school on time and studying for...

Grades are up! Graduation rates are rising! But that's not good news. Test scores are down, across the country, writes Hechinger's Jill...

"As bad as the pandemic was for student learning," some education fads will make it worse, writes Greg Richmond, superintendent of...

No-consequences attendance policies have encouraged students to skip class, teacher Loren Green told the Albany, New York school board....

Giving students a minimum of 50 percent on assignments -- regardless of whether they're turned in -- was a disaster, a former D.C. public...