Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased.
New York City has abandoned its test to screen for gifted and talented children. Now the responsibility of choosing students falls squarely on teacher recommendations.
The pandemic has supercharged the decline in the nation’s public school system in ways that experts say will not easily be reversed.
Biden’s $10,000 in relief isn’t enough.
Critics of the proposal say the rules are overly restrictive and would stymie the growth of charter schools, whose 3.6 million students are largely Black and Hispanic.
Readers ponder an impending horrible milestone. Also: Grief in our times; college debt; policies and public opinion; students’ letters.
The mayor, who has dyslexia himself, would open two new schools, train teachers and direct schools to use phonics-based lessons as a way to address a literacy crisis in the city.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland called for a review last year, after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves of children who attended similar schools in Canada.
Readers call for more openness and discuss judicial restraint and the justices’ religious beliefs. Also: Mask decisions; Twitter’s dark side; skipping school.
Calling out racism is part of the work, not all of it. After you get rid of the things you don’t like, you need to build the things you do.
Across the continent, pupils face bullying, harassment and humiliation over the invasion of Ukraine, another perverse effect of a war that is overwhelmingly affecting the innocent.
The Magic City Acceptance Academy, a public charter school, finally opened last year after several attempts. Students there have watched state legislators debate their future in real time.
To explain its puzzling rejection of dozens of textbooks, the state released 6,000 pages of comments, revealing an often confusing and divisive process.
We invited high school students to write letters reacting to a recent article, and here are some of our favorites.
Low-quality pre-K programs can be worse than useless. High-quality ones can change lives.
Gov. Greg Abbott may target a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that requires schools to educate undocumented children. Some conservatives see an opening for a fresh look at old precedents.
New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities.
Americans still underperform in math. That, not debates about testing and social emotional learning, should be our focus.
Parents at a school in Rochester, N.Y., said Patrick Rausch, a white social studies teacher, had also instructed his seventh-grade students to call him “massah.”
Readers discuss the Florida Department of Education’s objections to some of the topics in math textbooks. Also: The Ukraine war; mask mandates.
More than 30 schools, teaching tens of thousands of Rohingya students, were closed in Bangladesh, where officials are said to have feared the schools would encourage the refugees to stay permanently.
Why did U.S. schools make so much progress in the 1990s and early 2000s?
Maia Kobabe’s book “Gender Queer,” about coming out as nonbinary, landed the author at the center of a battle over which books belong in schools, and who gets to make that decision.
Quiero que mis hijas lean, vean y escuchen cualquier cosa que despierte su interés, aunque a mí no me guste.
College debtors aren’t a privileged class.
Retooling the party for an age of disorder.
The Panel for Educational Policy blocked the Adams administration’s funding formula, a move that may delay school budgets for the coming year.
In 1992, Héctor Tobar was a young reporter at The Los Angeles Times when the city erupted in violence. What really happened — and what didn’t?
After the police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted, Los Angeles went to war with itself. The violence lasted a week, but its causes stretched back years.
Since the Great Recession, the college-educated have taken more frontline jobs at companies like Starbucks and Amazon. Now they’re helping to unionize them.
Parents seem to be freaking out over everything their kids see, read and do.
The justices’ decision could have broad implications for freedom of religion — and freedom from it.
A left-right debate on the overblown gender panic gripping American politics.
La política sustentada en teorías de la conspiración arriba al Mundo Mágico.
Readers are split over whether this prospect should be cheered or feared. Also: A hard-line U.S. message to Russia; parents and teachers.
Unruly parents, players and coaches are driving a referee shortage. Do you think sports officials are treated unfairly?
Conspiracy-theory politics catches up with Disney.
A group including parents of Asian American students challenged the new criteria at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia.
Members of the court’s conservative majority indicated that the coach, Joseph A. Kennedy, had a constitutional right to kneel and pray at the 50-yard line after games.
At least 40 children and teenagers have been shot this year, taking a toll on young people whose lives have already been disrupted by the pandemic.
Do you use your own internal compass to get from place to place? Or do you depend on a smartphone map?
The Florida governor and state lawmakers revoked the theme park’s special tax status in an ongoing battle that escalated over a recently passed education bill.
Christopher Rufo helped make critical race theory a conservative rallying cry. Now he sees L.G.B.T.Q. issues as an even more potent line of attack.
We want to hear from you.
Tennessee has a plan for that.
Joseph Kennedy, a football coach at a public high school in Washington State, lost his job after praying on the 50-yard line after games.
And why it doesn’t have to be like this.
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s move to revoke the company’s special tax status in Florida showed how combative his party has grown toward corporations that are increasingly taking a stand on political issues.
They talked to The New York Times for Kids about being singled out at school for how they wear their hair. Now they’re fighting for legislation so other kids won’t go through the same thing.
“Finally, network has a good understanding of the millennial way. Networks 10 years ago were like: “What the hell are you guys talking about? You sound crazy.’”
The statement issued Thursday by the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore, the state capital.
Watch two teams practice for the 30th anniversary of the Double Dutch Holiday Classic at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
We spent six months with Genesis, one of one million New York City students who has lived through the most disrupted moment in the modern history of public education.
A weeklong effort to vaccine children ages 5-11 began at New York City schools this week.
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
The city's 1 million students return to classrooms today, many for the first time since March 2020.
What to look for in backpacks, lunch boxes, and pencils.
What the spread of the Delta variant means for sending kids back to the classroom.
St. Theresa School argued in a court document that it was the school’s First Amendment right to fire the pregnant teacher.
America’s greatest city is beating the pandemic. Can it also recover from decades of division and neglect?
Here are the mayoral candidates in their own words, so voters can make up their own minds.
Moms spend a lot of time cataloging their failures. This Mother’s Day, revel in your talents.
Working on the audio documentary “Odessa” gave one producer a painful look at the post-lockdown emotional struggles of teenagers.
Une simulation des flux d’air dans une vraie salle de classe à New York montre que des mesures simples de ventilation peuvent réduire le risque d’exposition au coronavirus.
Few counties in the United States meet the C.D.C.’s guidelines to avoid major restrictions on reopening schools, according to a New York Times analysis.
Una simulación del flujo de aire en un aula real de la ciudad de Nueva York muestra que la simple ventilación y la filtración pueden reducir la probabilidad de exposición al coronavirus.
A simulation of airflow in a real New York City classroom shows how simple ventilation and filtration can reduce the probability of coronavirus exposure.
A deal between the city and its teachers' union cleared the way for prekindergarten and special needs students. More will follow.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
Even in states where teachers are allowed to get shots, a sudden expansion of vaccine eligibility, combined with a limited supply of doses, has made it difficult for some to make appointments.
There are 13,000 school districts in the U.S. Here is how some are faring.
To keep your little ones occupied, look no further than the world of podcasts. Here are a few ideas for kids ages 2 to 6.
From the basement apartment she shares with her mom, Taniya Ria is one of tens of thousands of students who spent time trying to navigate remote learning on a phone.
A reader praises President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for defense secretary. Also: Stresses in teaching today.
Bianca Barragán is counting on her children’s bilingual education program to teach them English. From afar, that’s a challenge.
Remote learning is extra hard for millions of students who lack reliable internet at home. Wi-Fi buses are the solution in this Michigan community.
The U.S. military’s past battles with Infectious disease have helped it fight off coronavirus.
Mayor Bill de Blasio canceled the start of in-person classes for the country’s largest school system just three days before they were set to begin, sowing even more confusing among parents and educators.
The White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said President Trump wants schools to reopen despite the rise in coronavirus cases.
Racism is at the heart of our nation’s inequality.
You want to read more but are having a hard time staying focused? This list will help keep you on track.
Our cities’ teachers on how children’s neighborhoods at birth shape their lives.
A city poised on the edge of Europe and the rest of the world became the incubator for talents like Dries Van Noten, Luc Tuymans and Ann Demeulemeester.
Facing the threat of the coronavirus, schools around the country are trying a new experiment in distance learning on a mass scale. We followed one family through the experience.
Here is a growing list of public and private schools, as well as colleges and universities, that have suspended or altered classes in the local effort to curb the outbreak.
What happens if you alter the alphabet song so that you don’t have to condense the 12th through 16th letters into a single breath? Some people get angry.
His hands-on methods of teaching mechanical engineering at M.I.T. made him a star on campus (and on PBS) and led to student contests on a global scale.
Senator Elizabeth Warren was among several Democratic presidential candidates voicing support for the strike in the country’s third-largest school district.
Send your kids to school with A+ supplies that will last the year through. We worked with the experts at Wirecutter to compile this list of essentials that’ll make shopping for school supplies a breeze.
The House voted Tuesday to give 2.5 million young undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship, a defiant gesture as President Trump pushes a crackdown on migrants.
At one school, black and Hispanic enrollment plummeted to 14 percent from 50 percent. At another, it went to 4 percent. “What has happened?” a black alumna asked.
In a 10-point declaration of his education policy priorities, the Vermont senator framed efforts to curtail charter schools as a means to “desegregate” public education.
High schoolers offer their views on violence in El Salvador, suicide, transgender people, leggings, Asian stereotypes and more.
Investigators said that Raniya, whose death caused an outpouring of grief and made national headlines, had a birth defect that caused a blood vessel in her brain to burst.
A social studies teacher says students can grapple with difficult ideas.
Changes to middle school enrollment in parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan could force City Hall to take action on school segregation.
The program is the first one to be closed as part of the city’s escalating effort to stem the country’s largest measles outbreak in decades.
Defenders of the writing style have lobbied to revive it in schools, igniting a debate about American values and exposing intergenerational fault lines.