Become a Chalkbeat sponsor
Back to School Reading List
Getting ready for back to school season? As schools reopen for the academic year, we hope these stories, resources, and essays help students, teachers, and parents have a smoother transition.
The district’s new middle school model had a rough start for some students at schools like Broad Ripple Middle School. But other families are celebrating the new classes and activities.
I was trying — and failing — to teach literature to teens. Then I discovered ‘The Piano Lesson’ and ‘Fences.’
My grandparents raised me as a ‘satellite baby’ in China. When I returned to NYC at age 5, I got to know my parents for the first time.
My Gen Z clients are digital natives who communicate effortlessly over text.
One in 14 U.S. kids has had an incarcerated parent, but the experience can be surprisingly lonely.
The district’s new middle school model had a rough start for some students at schools like Broad Ripple Middle School. But other families are celebrating the new classes and activities.
Nationwide, Native students miss school far more frequently than their peers. Watonga High School bucks the trend.
Educators and tribes are working together to connect with families and help school feel more relevant, as part of their efforts to combat high rates of chronic absenteeism.
Illinois Department of Early Childhood’s first secretary could be Teresa Ramos, a long-time education advocate, pending confirmation by the state Senate. Pritzker made the announcement Monday.
Entre las principales propuestas de Donald Trump para el sistema educativo está la eliminación del Departamento de Educación y la ampliación de opciones educativas para las familias.
FutureReadyNYC, which helps schools launch career tracks in education, technology, business, and health care, is expanding to 36 new schools, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday.
In the wake of a state settlement rolling back some teacher training guidelines about cultural relevance, Black educators say they worry about the impact on the state’s teaching workforce.
The Newark Board of Education agreed to pay back the state more than $30,000 in state aid.
About half of the city’s public schools would have otherwise lost out on $157 million dollars in midyear cuts, according to the city’s Education Department.
The paid apprenticeships through EmployIndy could serve as a roadmap of what’s to come for other Indiana high schoolers.
Candidates promised a bigger child tax credit. A Republican-controlled Congress will decide its fate next year.
I was trying — and failing — to teach literature to teens. Then I discovered ‘The Piano Lesson’ and ‘Fences.’
Philadelphia school leaders say it will take a while for their multi-million dollar curriculum changes to improve students' scores.
The election of Donald Trump sent a wave of fear through trans youth and their allies. But they’re also organizing and deploying lessons from states that already have restrictive laws.
Schools issued 27,724 suspensions during the 2023-24 school year, a 2.4% decline year over year. But superintendent suspensions, which last six days or longer, ticked up about 1%.
School board members called on the district to settle with its teachers union on the same day the union asked them to intervene.