California has officially recognized Diwali as a state holiday, with Governor Newsom signing AB 268 into law. Starting in 2026, schools and community ...

Podcast series from The Conversation where children ask academics questions wins gold at the British Podcast Awards.

I t was early summer, and Eric Li, who had just finished seventh grade, had two camps to attend in the coming weeks. One was a classic camp in the woods of New Hampshire. The other was the Center for ...

Student achievement is much more closely tied to something schools can’t possibly control — average household income.

From immersive learning to personalized tutors, AI is everywhere in K-12 education. Here are three steps parents can take to stay informed and engaged.

By ending city schools’ Gifted and Talented program, Zohran Mamdani will deny low- and middle-income families the accelerated education he enjoyed as a privileged child.

Even techno optimists acknowledge that the skills children will need are evolving faster than schools can, and that the most utopic AI outcome will still be completely unrecognizable in its ...

Chronic student absenteeism in Rhode Island remains higher than before the pandemic, affecting 22.5% of students who have missed at least 10% of the school year. Common reasons for absences include ...

Two sociologists found that when the pace at which family sizes was shrinking slowed down, starting in the 1990s, progress toward closing the gender pay gap grew sluggish too.

The case for homework isn’t black and white, so we looked far and wide for research to shed a little light on the matter.

Normal gases, like the air you breathe on Earth, are made up of atoms bouncing around. Atoms consist of a positively charged bundle of particles called the nucleus and negatively charged particles ...

Single-sex education was supposed to be a relic of a bygone era, but getting into a top all-girls institution has never been more competitive. Is old-school the secret to modern academic success?