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Robin Lake: We must start thinking, talking and acting bigger when it comes to preparing teens for both college and career.

As college costs soar and demand for skilled labor rises, programs that prepare students for well-paid work are gaining popularity: In 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high-schoolers, college students and adults. Yet many states struggle to answer a basic question: Is career education working?

While the star of ‘Abbott Elementary’ presend to teach onscreen, these real-life educators instruct the show’s child actors.

In this second of three preview instalments, Q&Q presents middle grade and graphic novels.

“I love the inherent optimism and boldness” in young adult fiction, says the novelist, best known for reimagining classic fairy tales. Her new book is the contemporary rom-com “With a Little Luck.”

Most of our nationa’s students aren’t receiving the support they need to become successful readers. Here are three things advocates and education leaders are doing to improve equity in reading outcomes.

Today’s post is the fourth in a series offering strategies to support older students experiencing reading challenges.

A local school district is putting an interesting spin on getting students excited about and focused on reading.

New report shows some progress but persistent achievement gaps; co-author Kane urges action before federal aid expires.

After schools prevented students from taking algebra before high school to reduce racial inequities, parents in San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., pushed back.

A teacher at a public school near Houston has a secret classroom bookshelf largely made up of challenged titles. Many of the books deal with race, sex and gender.

Setting up community partnerships and tasks that simulate real jobs creates a solid foundation for a career and technical education program.

For some students, digital reading was actually detrimental: The researchers found that reading on screens lowered reading comprehension skills among younger students, those in elementary and middle school grades. But where does that leave teachers, who often are required to use both formats in their classrooms?

In the first-year seminar Juvenilia, taught by English faculty Melissa Jensen, students focus on early writings by now-famous authors, musicians, and artists.

In this piece, we’re going to revisit the greatest hype bubble in the history of international education to understand why Finland attracted such intense fascination, what we can learn from it, and wrestle with two uncomfortable questions: Was Finland’s success not real in the first place? Or did genuine triumph rapidly give way to unprecedented failure?

A $4 million grant is helping nonprofit Urban Arts tap into Minecraft to expand its game design curriculum to underrepresented middle-schoolers.

These novels that draw on folklore and fairy tales feature magic, monsters, adventure, and plots that are sure to keep readers turning pages.

Boston is one of 10 places where Bloomberg Philanthropies will spend a total of $250 million preparing high school students to start health care jobs as soon as they graduate.

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s multiple-choice quiz designed to test your knowledge of books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment asks you to identify passages from 20th-century books that have become classic middle-grade and Y.A. novels.

Helping students understand their remarkable republic and what it needs to thrive is to equip them to defend it from the vocal ideologues, left and right, who’ve lost faith in the American Project.

We invite students to explain how to do any task in 400 words or fewer. Contest dates: Jan. 10 - Feb. 14, 2024.

Students at a New Jersey high school want to widen A.I. discussions beyond dueling tropes of tech magic and doomsday panic.

If we spend our teenage years afraid we might share our thoughts in the wrong way or at the wrong moment, how is this affecting a crucial ingredient in becoming an adult: the ability to think critically?

Designed as a guiding light for those supporting adolescents, Portrait of a Thriving Youth is a dynamic picture of what youth need to flourish.

We’re kicking off our Mind the Middle Project for 2024 a bit early, with a guest post by Gina Soldano-Herrle about starting a middle grade book club for all. To find out more about the project and sign up to participate, visit here.

These simple strategies can help motivate middle and high school students to have engaging and productive classroom discussions.

A college admissions and college counseling veteran gives his insight into how to support your child in their school life.

Spoiler alert: Solutions are not as obvious as we might wish. We’re dealing with something more than kids watching TikTok during science class.

Hand these four books to YA readers who can’t resist a sweet holiday love story.

All teachers should be responsible for English learners, researchers said.

Freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace schooling for all.

Dan Santat’s middle grade graphic memoir received the prestigious honor at a ceremony where Oprah Winfrey spoke about 2021 School Librarian of the Year Amanda Jones and the power of diverse books.

At a national conference, social studies educators discussed how the culture wars are reshaping their work at a time when simply teaching the subject may be viewed as political

Because their fellow students work so hard, even the slackers at Stuyvesant High School know they have to get their schoolwork done.

In a global exam for 15-year-olds, only a handful of places, including Singapore, Japan and Australia, kept math performance high through the pandemic.

These strategies go beyond flash cards to help students learn new terms and apply them in novel contexts.

Five years ago, Linda Pistun set out to achieve two goals: end world hunger and improve science education in public schools. In August, at the age of 11, she became a published author.

Queries sent to 20 top schools, many known for engineering programs, found that 11 do not require calculus while 6 strongly recommend or encourage it.

In her very first year of teaching eighth grade, Kali Burks learned three invaluable lessons.Burks, a teacher in Wayne schools, shared her “teaching fails” at the “Don’t Make Me Use My Teacher Voice” story slam on Nov. 16. The event was presented by Teachers Lounge Indy, in collaboration with Chalkbeat Indiana and Indy Kids Winning.

Love is the language that everybody can understand. Love is the language that has no boundaries for religion or financial background. Love is everywhere and everyone needs love.

Freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace schooling for all.

The National Council of Teachers of English(opens in a new window) has announced the winners of the 2024 Orbis Pictus and Charlotte Huck Awards. Since 1989, the Orbis Pictus Award has recognized excellence in nonfiction for children. The Charlotte Huck Award was established in 2014 to honor excellence in children’s fiction writing. 

Culture battles on gender and race did not seem to move many voters.

The D.C. high school students wrote books about climate change, extreme weather and grief as part of an after-school program with Reach Incorporated.

Suicide has been a leading cause of death for young people for at least the last half-century. This year, for the first time, the median age for teen suicide in Los Angeles County has dropped to 16 — the youngest ever. As systems of care have withered, an old superstition has taken root: that talking about suicide would cause people in crisis to kill themselves.

A math professor has spent 20 years experimenting with ways to improve student engagement, and now his teaching strategies are going viral.

School board elections have become a new battleground in American politics, with typically non-partisan races becoming increasingly polarized and garnering national attention. That was true in this week’s election among a few closely watched counties. Julie Marsh, a professor of education policy at the University of Southern California, joins Geoff Bennett to discuss.

Graduates should be ready to succeed in college, careers or the military. But we struggle to define those pathways in equally rigorous ways.

Students are still learning, even during brief breaks, which serve to help them decompress, refocus, and process new information.

New York University’s Kristie Patten: What autistic students can teach us about focusing on assets, not deficits.

Teachers can create safe learning environments where students develop confidence in their writing abilities and feel more comfortable sharing their work.

There’s a good argument that Shakespeare is the world’s most popular author. About 90 percent of American schools assign Shakespeare to students. His work has been translated into more than 100 languages. Declare “To be or not to be,” and most will answer, “That is the question.” The Bard’s work is widely integrated across culture, education, and the modern English language. Despite this, people find Shakespeare hard. Some might even say too hard. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a unique benefit: facilitating the reading experience of Shakespeare’s works.

Proponents say no-phone rules reduce student distractions and bullying. Critics say the bans could hinder student self-direction and critical thinking.

The Education Department grant will fund coaching, workshops and $22,000 in scholarships for D.C. middle-schoolers.

When Virginia’s Prince William County school district switched to standards-based grading nearly a decade ago, middle school social studies teacher Erin Merrill wanted an easier way to keep track of her students’ mastery of the specific standards tested on the year-end state standardized assessment.

Merrill also wanted to empower her students to take ownership of their learning. Her solution: giving students a data notebook to track their progress.

Five takeaways from a psychology professor who has worked on studies of teenagers in the legal system.

Defense Department schools are moving students with learning disabilities into general education classrooms for some subjects, a spokeswoman for the Department of Defense Education Activity – Pacific confirmed Friday.

Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games novels have become YA canon. The book series, and the subsequent movies starring Jennifer Lawrence, challenged our views of female protagonists, class structure, and political involvement — and did so through accessible, engaging stories that, while aimed at young readers, captivated nearly all of the literary world. We wanted to put voice to just how prominent Collins has been in the YA genre. Thus, we gathered other young adult authors, who also happen to be enormous fans of her work, to weigh in on both what these books have achieved in the last decade and what they mean to them as both writers and readers.

Kids and teenagers used to dislike reading quite a bit because it was regarded as a mandatory subject in school; they started to see reading as a chore rather than a pastime. However, young adult fiction has recently improved in children’s relatability, which has raised their interest in reading.