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When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today's youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in their early school years, researchers are beginning to see how the pandemic years have shaped their education, even though many had yet to set foot in a classroom when it began.

A few months before her daughter started kindergarten, Claire Benoist saw a Facebook post that stunned her. Another family with an incoming kindergartner was wondering if it was true that children in the Croton-Harmon School District, 45 miles north of New York City, receive an iPad when they start school. 

An 18-year-old Memphis student is being held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center after he was detained on the way to a school soccer game just over two weeks ago. Yasser Jose Lopez Soza was riding in a car with teammates to the soccer game on Feb. 20 when the driver was pulled over for a traffic violation, Soza family attorney Jay Paul Fearnley said this week. Fearnley said Soza’s case was caused by a “perfect storm” of local immigration crackdowns and changes in federal policy.

As the number of English learners has surged, the growth in the number of teachers with specialized training hasn’t always kept pace. That means general education teachers who want and are expected to help English learners in mainstream classrooms aren’t trained in how to work with these students, nor do they always have access to co-teachers with expertise.

Coding can help students understand the building blocks of world languages, and it provides an authentic way to tell stories.

From sports fiction to dark academia, these novels written for striving readers will appeal to teens with a variety of interests.

Congress approved funding dedicated to English learners in the fiscal 2026 federal budget, but failed to increase the program’s total allocation even as the student population continues to grow, and costs associated with educating them rise.

Kindness toward others is often taught in elementary school, but it’s also important for students to extend it to themselves.

California colleges are looking for answers about the status of a federal grant program serving colleges that enroll many Hispanic students, amid mixed messages from Congress and the Trump administration.

Elementary teachers nationwide say they’re seeing the same trend: worsening — and increasingly severe — behavior problems in young children. Students are more disruptive. They sometimes lash out physically at classmates and teachers. They’re more defiant. It’s pushing many teachers and schools to try new methods to bring classrooms under control, with districts and states sharply divided over the right approach.