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Floods, hurricanes, fires and pandemics are hard for any school district to deal with. But in rural districts the struggle to recover is even harder.

Colleges point to certain statistics when they talk about where their graduates land. But what might they be leaving out? A career education specialist weighs in.

Despite pressure for students to choose STEM over the humanities, classes in literature, art and history can provide students with vital life skills and help combat the current epidemic of loneliness.

Composer Quincy Jones, who died in November 2024, was a titan of 20th-century American music. So why don't music majors study his work?

Experiences of racism affected Black teachers across the district but manifested in different ways depending on their school's location.

If Republicans manage to achieve a long-standing goal by getting rid of the Department of Education, there wouldn't be a secretary of education anymore.

Policymakers commonly suggest that teaching to 'fidelity' following a plan word for word is best for student learning. However, research suggests the opposite is true.

Noam Chomsky's notion of the human instinct for freedom ties together his many intellectual pursuits, from educating creative, independent citizens to rejecting social and economic hierarchies.

The brain science behind the power struggle between parents and their children.

A course explores how ancient apocalypses find their way into movies and TV shows.