School safety — including the safety and security of students, faculty, staff, and facilities — cannot be an afterthought. It must be a foundational priority, focusing on proactive safety measures ...

Just over a decade ago, as director of WestEd’s national Center for School Turnaround and Improvement, my team worked with some of the nation’s most struggling schools. In addition to finding poor ...

Ten years. That is how long I served as a principal in a Baltimore middle school—through four district leaders, two U.S. presidents, and a pandemic. There was no secret lever to pull. No magic button ...

A few years on from district-wide remote learning spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, Principal Darren A. Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling ...

Talking about schools is a reliable applause line for Republican candidates. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, former President Donald Trump got a roar of approval when he talked about race and sexuality in ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Indiana. Parents of George Washington Carver Montessori School 87 students demanded more accountability from school board members on Thursday, after ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s a new approach for the largest school district in the state, over how they deal with problems ...

How culture war politics are changing the shape of education around the country. WASHINGTON — For the past few years, images of angry parents at school board meetings and pitched protests over what ...

Attendance matters. Good grief, of course it does. The data don’t lie. Students who miss school tend to fall behind. They don’t do well in class and are more likely to drop out. A recent Legislative ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) — The tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School prompted Joseph Wright to come to Lincoln Public Schools as its head of security. Now, after 27 years with the Lincoln Police ...

In the U.S. and all over the world, residential schools, or Indian boarding schools, forcibly fractured Indigenous cultures. The implication that these institutions were just “schools” does little to ...