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Letter to the Editor: PSAT Students Didn’t ‘Break Oath’

The following letter pertains to our recent featured news story about teenagers using Twitter to discuss this week’s PSAT exam.

Dear Editor,

I took the PSAT this year and although we …

Civil Rights Groups Are Pressing Betsy DeVos to Affirm a Supreme Court Decision That Protects Undocumented Students’ Education. Here’s the Backstory on Plyler v. Doe

In recent news, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sparked controversy by suggesting that reporting undocumented …

An Oval Office Brawl Over Transgender Kids: 7 Things We Know About the DeVos-Sessions Showdown

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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