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Sen. Blackburn’s Math Act Heads to Senate Floor
The Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Education Act aims to address the country’s STEM shortage.
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The Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Education Act aims to address the country’s STEM shortage.
This "earnings indicator" will be included in the Federal Student Aid process that students undertake each year.
A new report from the Millennial Debt Foundation’s In the Black initiative argues that federal education funding “rests on shaky long-term economic foundations”...
A new national survey from The PIE Network finds bipartisan support for annual student testing, with ninety-five percent of respondents saying it is important f...
Tennessee lawmakers pressed state education officials this week for answers on how the ongoing federal shutdown and potential Trump-backed block grant proposals...
Blackburn said she’s the leader the state needs to take advantage of Trump’s work to shrink the federal government and provide more power to the states.
As the federal government shutdown threatens to pause Military Tuition Assistance payments, Austin Peay State University has pledged to cover tuition for active...
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon named White as the chair of the National Assessment Governing Board that oversees the National Assessment o...
Tennessee lawmakers are reconsidering graduation requirements for career and technical education (CTE) students, but new national research raises caution.
The U.S. Department of Education announced a record $500 million investment in public charter schools on Monday, marking the largest allocation in the program’s...
A new national survey reveals that most parents would send their children to private or religious schools if public funding were available, signaling a major sh...
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited Tennessee on Wednesday as part of her nationwide “Returning Education to the States” tour,.
Blackburn announced she’s sponsoring two bills to revoke the NEA’s charter and prevent it from lobbying the federal government.
Tennessee lawmakers convened the Joint Federal Education Deregulation Cooperation Task Force Tuesday morning assess the impact of President Donald Trump’s propo...
A national study finds just 12% of certificates and industry credentials significantly raise wages—leaving many Tennessee workers struggling as rent and home pr...
The Court’s 6-3 decision puts a temporary pause on a lower court’s order that required the department to reinstate employees who were part of McMahon’s planned ...
The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee advanced Schwinn’s nomination to the full U.S. Senate on a party-line 12 to 11 vote.
Memphis-Shelby Public Schools says district staff are monitoring pending federal decisions that could affect approximately $17 million in funding for district p...
By offering a 100 percent dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit for donations to private school scholarship organizations, the bill would allow individuals to re...
The president’s request to Congress includes specific support for states to continue administering testing as part of their ongoing implementation of the Every ...
For a group of students from the Roots of Music program in New Orleans, performing at CMA Fest in Nashville last weekend marked several firsts: first plane ride...
A recent memo from Tennessee SCORE reports that Tennessee remains among the top five states in the nation for student learning recovery following the COVID-19 p...
The report found Tennessee has strong math instruction policies in three key areas but weak in a fourth, and “unacceptable” in a fifth.
The PAEMST award is considered the nation’s highest honor for U.S. K-12 science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and/or computer science teachers.
That poll of 5,136 U.S. adults aged 18 and older last December found 95 percent of respondents believe math skills are important in their work life and 43 ...
Under her instruction, 74 percent of students were reading on grade level. By comparison, 2024 state testing data shows that 33 percent of elementary school stu...
Thomas B. Fordham Institute Associate Director of Research David Griffith told members of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Second...
Both polls asked voters for their support of key education policies that have been backed this year by Republican leaders, including President Trump and Governo...
A new report from the National Education Association finds Tennessee’s education investments appear to be making an impact, but not one that’s large enough to v...
The legislation would create what a federal education deregulation cooperation task force charged with investigating the Tennessee impact of recent presidential...
The department’s workforce has already been slashed by nearly half, but President Trump says this move will return power over education decisions to the states.
Stephanie Boshears received a welcome surprise during a school assembly when she was named a recipient of the prestigious Milken Educator Award.
Tuesday night, newly confirmed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon went on the Fox News program the Ingraham Angle to reframe a major reduction in her departme...
Mayor Jacobs has known McMahon for decades through his hall of fame career as the wrestler Kane in the World Wrestling Federation. McMahon and her husband Vince...
Tennessee students outperformed the NAEP national average for proficiency in both subjects for both grades. Tennessee students have largely been below the natio...
A new report from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) suggests that gender stereotypes remain a major barrier to increasing women’s participation in scie...
New data from the National Council on Teacher Quality says there are nearly four percentage points fewer teachers from historically disadvantaged groups than ex...
The Federal Trade Commission has charged a company that produces AI-based weapons detection systems used by schools and other businesses with making misleading ...
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee wasted no time applauding President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of a former professional wrestling mogul to serve as the United States...
A new report from the Grad Partnership notes that high school graduation rates in Tennessee have remained relatively stable in recent years, compared to 26 stat...
You can add Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to the growing list of Tennessee lawmakers who support President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to eliminat...
Despite the fact that the U.S. Department of Education funnels more than $800 million into Tennessee alone, some leading Republican legislators have signaled su...
Black students in schools and universities across Tennessee and the nation have reported a slew of racist text messages evoking slavery in the days following fo...
Voters in Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska have decisively rejected efforts to implement school voucher programs that would allow families to use tax dollars fo...
Students for Education (SFE), a Tennessee-based nonprofit dedicated to encouraging youth civic engagement, is expanding its national footprint as part of a broa...
A new study from the Progressive Policy Institute indicates that low-income students in both public charter schools and traditional public schools in 10 major c...
The U.S. Department of Education has named six Tennessee schools as National Blue Ribbon Schools this year including Miller Perry Elementary School in Kingsport...
Tennessee earned an A for transparency in reporting COVID-19 learning loss data, according to a new CRPE report. The report highlighted Tennessee's commitment t...
Congressional Democrats are at risk of shedding a critical voting bloc in swing states: Black and Hispanic voters who say their concerns about improving public ...
Fortified by a stream of Democratic endorsements and high-dollar donations, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared every bit the presidential contender when she ...
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has a history with an issue Tennessee Democrats have spent the last year opposing.
A new statewide survey from the Beacon Center of Tennessee found 50 percent of registered voters in Tennessee are dissatisfied with the way things are going in ...
Representative Scott Cepicky, R-Culleoka, went on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show recently to discuss the failed effort he led last session to reduce the amount ...
While parents strongly support the use of statewide summative assessments to measure student progress, many believe that few K-12 leaders are clearly sharing ho...
A new survey study from the Walton Family Foundation and Gallup suggests that students are still in need of additional academic support to improve performance a...
Tennessee school districts are finalizing their AI policies ahead of the 2024-25 school year as they navigate new legislation requiring guidelines on AI use in ...
Tennessee ranks 14th out of 30 states included in a recent report from the Education Freedom Institute that measures the quality and accessibility of states’ pu...
As more states require schools to out transgender students to their families, a new study links involuntary disclosure of sexual orientation or gender identity ...
Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have announced a new partnership focusing on artificial intelligence research to develop technologies fo...
Knox County Board of Education officials discussed banning books that depict sex at Monday’s school board work session.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing funding to eight Tennessee school districts to purchase more than 40 clean school buses to reduce th...
The education and parent advocacy organization Nashville PROPEL has released a white paper detailing what local parents think about “Nashville’s hidden literary...
It’s not often that statehouse elections in rural Texas steer the national conversation about school choice. But things might change later this month.On May 28,...
Williamson County parents will soon learn whether their kids will have to attend summer school to advance under state reading proficiency requirements.
According to the annual report, which surveyed 1,000 teachers across the country, 70 percent of teachers believe that their students are falling behind academic...
School districts across the state began the 2022/23 school year with one thousand teaching vacancies according to data from the Tennessee Department of Educatio...
A growing New York nonprofit is using a newly released report to cement data around the axiom that social capital — or who you know — is key for first-generatio...
The turbulent rollout of a new federal financial aid application could mean thousands of low-income students miss out on college this fall.But one person feels ...
In the middle of night, students at Utah’s Kings Peak High School are wide awake — taking mandatory exams.At this online-only school, which opened during the pa...
Missy Testerman has enjoyed a teaching career that is decades longer than most, spending more than 30 years in first- and second-grade classrooms.But when she s...
For the first time in 35 years, a Tennessee teacher is the National Teacher of the Year.The Council of Chief State School Officers awarded Rogersville City Scho...
Craig and Joy Stevens raise goats and chickens on a 60-acre homestead about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City — a 35-minute drive from the church where they atten...
About one-third of 12th graders across the country reported using marijuana over the past year, according to a study released March 12.During that same period, ...
Hamilton County Schools became the latest in a growing number of Tennessee school districts that are joining a national lawsuit against social media companies f...
Before Thomas Guskey became a leading academic expert on grading and assessments, he was a middle school math teacher. One day he was chatting with an 8th-grade...
At 5 feet tall, Uyen Tieu doesn’t tower over anyone, including many students. So when a superior said she was too petite to be anything but an elementary school...
A new poll from the National Parents Union (NPU) found a growing concern for the negative effects of social media consumption.That survey found 83 percent of pa...
Memphis parent advocate Sarah Carpenter is among those blasting President Biden’s proposed FY 2025 budget for potentially cutting valuable support for public ch...
The Rutherford County Board of Education is joining a national lawsuit against social media companies for alleged damages to students.School board members unani...
Jose Martinez, a senior at Senn High School in Chicago, wants to teach someday — maybe English. He’s applied to several top colleges in Illinois, but for now, h...
When the American Federation of Teachers, America’s second-largest teachers’ union, officially called for a cessation of hostilities in Gaza on January 30, its ...
Vanderbilt professor and researcher Jason Grissom told members of the Metro Nashville Board of Education that the nationwide recognition the district is getting...
A new report produced by Harvard and Stanford Universities known as the Education Recovery Scorecard, credits MNPS for surpassing national trends for pandemic r...
Harvard University researcher Tom Kane stood before a captive audience at Washington’s Omni Shoreham hotel last Wednesday, just hours after dropping the report ...
Enrollment in U.S. schools was fairly steady between 2021 and 2022, but the number of K-12 students remained below pre-pandemic levels, according to new federal...
Most states have revised their strategies for teaching children to read over the last half-decade, a reflection of both long-held frustration with slow academic...
Days before Christmas, the school board in Jackson, Mississippi, voted to close 11 schools and merge two more — a drastic move that parents in the district had ...
Whole-child education models are those that expand the ambit of schools beyond a traditional academic focus. While a range of whole-child models have been explo...
The conventional wisdom in some quarters is that the charter school movement has run its course. Abandoned by an increasingly progressive Democratic Party for b...
While the entire United States is still reeling in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the recovery process has not been even nationwide. Many rural students and...
Underperforming Indiana third graders who are held back show significant progress for the next five years, a research study has found.The study examined data fr...
Tennessee ranked No. 6 nationally with a grade of B in the ALEC Index of State Education Freedom.Grades were scored overall from tabulating funding and financin...
A new study by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found public charter school students in Tennessee are not only making more average p...
A Tennessee school district has joined a growing list of school systems across the nation that are suing major social media companies like TikTok and YouTube ov...
More than four months ago Dogwood Elementary 5th grade teacher Alexa Guynes cried tears of joy when her school surprised her with the news she’d won the prestig...
In 2020, Faith Miles saw her kindergarten year broken up by the pandemic. Already slower to pick up language skills than her older siblings, Faith was further s...
K-12 teacher shortages — one of the most disputed questions in education policy today — are an undeniable reality in some communities, a newly released study in...
In yet another data point on missed learning during the pandemic, ACT scores from this year’s high school graduates dropped to their lowest level in three decad...
National testing data released this morning reveals severe damage inflicted on student math and reading performance, reaffirming COVID-19’s ongoing educational ...
Memphis-Shelby County Schools showed some of the country’s sharpest declines in math and reading scores on the test known as the “nation’s report card.”Results ...
When former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in July that her former Cabinet department “should not exist,” it made some waves.The school choice advocate an...
Step Up, a mentorship nonprofit founded in 1998, announced they are expanding their operations to Nashville after Music City native, Reese Witherspoon, made a m...
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