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Homeschooled students should provide context about their curriculum and avoid asking a parent to write a letter of recommendation.

How Will They Interpret the Past?

Teaching students about key people and events in Hispanic Americans’ fight for equality is a good way to mark this observance.

As millions of students return to school across the country, we take a look at how a gift from a founding father helped spark a movement to make public education a reality. Pamela Watts of Rhode Island PBS Weekly reports for our arts and culture series, “CANVAS.”

Teenagers become more exploratory in their behaviors with age, becoming increasingly likely to visit new places over time, finds a new study. Its results also show that greater exploration is associated with enhanced psychological well-being and larger social networks.

Developmentally, teens are in a place where they can be motivated to become more responsible. Shifting responsibility from parents to teenager can be a good first step.

In love? There’s a book for that. While asking your mom, sister, and besties is a tried and true go-to for answers, sometimes, it’s nice to gain perspective on your love life from an unbiased source: enter, the best teen romance books of all time.

More young children are struggling with early reading skills, while more older elementary and middle school students are missing foundational math skills like subtraction and multiplication.

We asked members of our community to share recently published novels they would love to have read in high school. Here are your top picks.

When a kid becomes an adult, a new, confusing stage of the parent-child relationship begins, yet there’s little guidance to help families navigate it.

Luke Rodesiler is associate professor of education and chair of the Department of Teacher Education at Purdue. He is the author of a new book titled Bringing Sports Culture to the English Classroom: An Interest-Driven Approach to Literacy Instruction, which will be out this month.

What challenging yourself to do better can accomplish!

Kaitlyn Greenidge and Esau McCaulley discuss why America’s schools can’t get on the same page about required reading lists.

There are now tons of excellent, diverse options for young people to choose from. Here are nine suggested titles to help your middle schooler process through the roller coaster of hormones and emotions they are feeling. 

Something is broken when most of our middle and high school students are struggling to reach reading proficiency.

High school students can explore core ideas like self-reliance and civil disobedience as they read Walden and engage in the game.

Young people in the United States are facing a new set of risks. Why has the situation caught so many people off guard? In decades past, the public health risks teenagers in the United States faced were different. They were externalized risks that were happening in the physical world. Now, a new set of risks has emerged.

D.C. Public Schools kicked off a new school year last week, and with it a reading curriculum resource designed to improve literacy among the city’s youngest readers.

The program called DCPS Readers Next Door includes a collection of 120 books largely written and illustrated by educators in the District, and is an expansion of a years-long effort to align literacy instruction with what experts say are the best practices for teaching children how to read.

With a new school year underway, we’re wondering what goals you might be setting for yourselves. NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander asks you to write about one of your goals in the form of a poem.

A recent study found that high school Industry-Recognized Credentials (IRCs) are a net positive for students who earn them but are not game changers, which raises a lingering question: How else can we transform the high school experience for students so as to significantly boost their wages and career prospects once they are in the workforce? Researchers share their ideas for change. 

As kids progress through school, they tend to increasingly perceive themselves as either a “math person” or a “language person,” even if they’re good at both, according to a recent study. Unfortunately, misconceptions kids have about themselves can lead some students to miss out on educational opportunities.

A required course in high school journalism would give kids the tools to tell the stories of their communities and make them active contributors to civic life, not just readers and writers.

There will be an abundance of collaboration, accomplishment, and adventure.

A group of local high school students joined Harvard mentors for a six-week program to improve their science literacy and equip them with basic life science, laboratory, and workforce skills.

Classroom learning materials will likely be mostly digital or remain a mix of digital and print in future years, representing a significant change from before the pandemic when curriculum materials were mostly print or a mix of digital and print, according to teacher and administrator survey results from Bay View Analytics, a statistical research firm.

When Illinois high schoolers go back to school this month, they’ll have new coursework that lawmakers and Stanford researchers hope will prepare students to better detect misinformation and search for ulterior motives before trusting online news, social media and information sources.

Dual-enrollment programs help nearly 1.4 million high school students take college courses each year. But as dual enrollment grows across the country, access to the option is not distributed equally, according to a new report produced by nearly two dozen higher ed researchers and experts, with funding from the Joyce Foundation.

While most schools across the country returned to in-person instruction last year, many families opted to stick with virtual learning or switched to homeschooling. And for them, the start of this new school year brings a range of new anxieties. Geoff Bennett spoke with Kimberly Back and her daughter, Delilah, about transitioning back to the classroom.

Schools across the country have been caught up in spirited debates over what students should learn about United States history. We talked to social studies teachers about how they run their classrooms, what they teach and why.

By giving students a chance to read text ‘like a reader’ first, you can help them generate insights in a natural, informal way before asking them to consider the mechanics of how it was done.

A day before school began for its approximately 35,000 students, Keller Independent School District announced a last-minute review of scores of books that had been challenged in the previous school year.

The St. Vrain Valley School District in Longmont, Colorado, is launching a program that opens certain advanced courses to high school students. In its first year, the AGILE (Advanced Global Innovative Learning Environments) program will allow high schoolers to take high-level courses virtually.

A love letter all the teachers going back to school this month. What I want to say to you is simple enough: What you do is vital to our future well-being. If most of us will be remembered by a handful of loved ones after we’re gone, you will be remembered by thousands. And you deserve it.

Some institutions had nixed SAT and ACT requirements before the COVID-19 health crisis. But the pandemic pushed the test-optional movement into overdrive as the coronavirus’s spread shut down traditional exam sites. 

The significant number of colleges sticking with these policies, despite coronavirus-related concerns waning, suggests the assessments will have a permanently diminished role in admissions.

Found materials, avatars and design thinking boosted students’ excitement about learning during the pandemic.

ELA teachers can engage students by encouraging them to challenge themselves and discover the joy of learning.

This book should be read for the reasons all good books should be read: because it’s beautiful and moving, nuanced and humane. Most of all, because it’s fun.

Nationwide, there have been efforts to lower youth incarceration rates and close youth prisons. A movement to replace punitive systems with trauma-informed care in Hawaii’s juvenile justice system has been key to their success.

A new international report suggests that physical books may be important to raising children who become strong readers. An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study across approximately 30 countries found that teens who said they most often read paper books scored considerably higher on a 2018 reading test taken by 15-year-olds compared to teens who said they rarely or never read books. 

Parents can help by teaching kids how to manage on their own, experts say. Supporting a middle schooler is similar to coaching an athlete as they train. Parents can’t do the work for their kids, but they can provide key help.

Try these strategies if persuading your child to read feels like pulling teeth.

Educators are taking part in NEH funded summer institutes focused on adolescent friendships as viewed through popular media such as books, TV, and film. Codirectors Karen Harris and Stephan Ellenwood say the program is helping teachers address “a major concern”

Here’s a breakdown of young-adult migration by race and ethnicity from a study by Harvard and Census Bureau researchers. They found two-thirds of millennials living in the same area where they grew up and 80% having moved less than 100 miles away.

The official rule: no secondary school for girls. But behind a veil of secrecy, women are opening small schools so that at least some of these teenagers are able to continue learning.

Hand these 13 titles, fiction and nonfiction, about disability to older readers this Disability Pride Month.

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.

A “Community School” model could take hold at many California K-12 campuses in the coming years. California is making a mega-bet with an unprecedented $4.1 billion investment over seven years, that converting hundreds of campuses in high-poverty neighborhoods into community schools offers the best chance to save children’s pandemic-damaged education and address entrenched inequities.

A conversation with Karina Yan Glaser, who writes middle-grade books set in a Harlem where kids can roam and neighbors know one another’s names.

Middle and high school students fell behind during the COVID-19 pandemic, just as younger students did. But while elementary students were struggling to catch up in reading and writing, older students might be struggling with key concepts in English or falling behind on graduation requirements.

On this episode of How To!, we bring in Arthur Brooks, a Harvard University professor who studies the science of happiness and writes a column for the Atlantic called How to Build a Life. He also is the father to three adult children. He has some surprising tips and tough love for Karen to help her rebalance her relationship with her kids.

A large body of research shows that traditional science education, for both science majors and non-majors, doesn’t do a good job of teaching science students how to apply their scientific knowledge and explain things that they may not have learned about directly.

A recent study developed a series of cross-disciplinary activities guided by a framework called “three-dimensional learning” to support students’ thinking in how to apply their science knowledge to real world problems.

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district secession.

The research initiative at four schools in three states centers on strong school-family-community partnerships to improve student mental health outcomes.

Educator Jennifer Wolf puts book banning in context, from Nazi book burnings to school board races.

The recipients of this year’s Whippoorwill Award cover a wide range of rural people, places, and topics. The Whippoorwill is the only national prize for young-adult books that focus on rural themes, the organizers say.

The Biden administration issued new school discipline guidelines Tuesday aimed at cutting back on high rates of suspension and expulsion for students with disabilities by clarifying rules that the nation’s schools are required to follow.

Teaching middle school students to identify the theme of a text is a difficult task. There are many other skills that need to be taught prior to gaining a real, working understanding of theme. Here are some interesting ideas on teaching theme to middle schoolers for you to try in your own classroom.

Jason Reynolds is not only a prolific and bestselling author, he’s also the national ambassador for young people’s literature. He discusses his newest book “Ain’t Burned All the Bright” with Sunday Morning host Jane Pauley.

Dive into these YA fantasy graphic novels about assassins and knights, magic and romance, and the meaning of saving the world — or yourself.

Some alternative schools in Massachusetts are seeing increased enrollment among students who began working full-time jobs since the onset of the pandemic or who are anxious about returning to a traditional high school after a long period of remote or hybrid learning.