Feb 16, 2026

When school size matters and when it doesn’t

Hechinger Report
For two decades, New York City’s small high schools stood out as one of the nation’s most ambitious — and controversial — urban education reforms. Now, a long-term study provides a clearer picture of their successes and disappointments.

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Student Count Day is here. What that means for school districts across Colorado

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

Sep 30, 2026

The homeschooling boom may be losing steam

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.

Sep 29, 2026

Are religious charter schools constitutional?

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

Sep 29, 2026

Parents are beginning to grasp the reality of grade inflation, new data shows

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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.

Sep 28, 2026

Trump, bucking Congress yet again, cancels $100 million for education

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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.