The Year in Education: 25 of our top stories about schools, students and learning

CPR
Thursday, Oct. 1, marks Colorado’s Student October Count Day, a date that determines school funding for the rest of the year.

Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
New data for the 2025-2026 school year show that homeschooling participation continued to grow across the country, but the pace of that growth has slowed.

The Conversation
Just over a year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered an unusual judgment: a tied vote.

The 74
For years, researchers and education pundits have tried to tell parents that their children are not performing as well as they might think in school.

EdWeek
The Trump administration is using a mechanism widely viewed as illegal to cancel nearly $100 million Congress appropriated for expanding college-level foreign-language instruction and helping transient U.S. agricultural workers get GEDs and go to college.

The 74
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ new essay about her daughter's school offers lessons about education, standards and parent choice.