On Wednesday, the Trump administration made the decision to remove federal protections for transgender students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity. The …
During a debate with his Republican opponent for governor of Virginia in October 2001, Mark Warner, a businessman and Democratic Party activist, had little to say about K-12 education besides suggesting that the history questions on Virginia’s standardized tests needed …
The founders of the only public boarding school in the country are making efforts to replicate their program in multiple states. This program aims to provide education to underprivileged students by taking them out of unstable home environments and placing …
During a conference at the White House, Michelle Obama, the First Lady, and Tom Vilsack, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, presented a set of proposed new regulations to protect students from advertisements for unhealthy food during the school day. This …
Two researchers in the field of library science are currently working on incorporating affordable and child-friendly computer coding tools into school and public libraries. Crystle Martin, a post-doctoral student at the University of California-Irvine, is leading a three-year study focused …
President Clinton has issued an executive order calling on federal education officials to assist states and districts in improving underperforming schools. As part of a two-day tour, the president visited schools across the country to showcase successful education reforms and …
Numerous school districts have utilized their COVID-relief funds to implement tutoring initiatives, whether in-person, online, or hybrid, to address the exacerbated achievement gaps caused by the pandemic. However, some districts have not witnessed the desired outcomes. This was the case …
Michael Metcalf, a distinguished numismatist who passed away at 85, had a keen understanding of the quantitative significance of medieval coins long before historians or other experts in numismatics appreciated it. In the 1960s, Michael conducted a detailed study of …
Philosophy graduates have long been asked the question, "What are you going to do with that degree?" Yet, recent statistics demonstrate that these graduates can do almost anything they want. The Higher Education Statistics Agency notes that philosophy graduates are …
