Concerns about screen time are not new—but they are heightened when kids across the country are spending much of their school day online.

The Certified Family Life Educator credential, available through the Human Development and Family Studies degree program, was recently endorsed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of Head Start.

A pair of multidisciplinary faculty members at Penn State Shenango received an Advancing Equity and Inclusion Grant from the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence to help fund a series of four online workshops focused on project-based learning. 

Penn State Shenango Physical Therapist Assistant students and faculty recently volunteered at the Medical Equipment Recycling Program in Farrell.

Matthew Caputo, associate teaching professor of engineering at Penn State Shenango, is exploring the fatigue behaviors of nickel-titanium shape memory alloys.

A multi-disciplinary group of Penn State Shenango faculty presented the results of a research study about diversity topics being included as part of general education curricula.

It's the potential beginning of the end of teachers' unions in this country.

The staff union for the National Education Association is threatening to strike over contract negotiations.

The current batch of teacher strikes, including in West Virginia and Oakland, Calif., are not just about pay.

A leadership program for young Black men looks to confront racism in law enforcement. Corey Mitchell explains.

Anti-racist school leadership is about becoming more racially aware and taking action, explains Denisa R. Superville.

A new nationally representative survey of teachers, principals, and district leaders offers key takeaways.

When a student noticed that no one was teaching her classmates about racism, she took matters into her own hands, Catherine Gewertz reports.

Black Lives Matter, climate change, family separation? All appropriate classroom topics, writes Christina Torres.

Breaking the cycle of institutional racism includes a quality education for Black students, writes Khalilah M. Harris. Here’s how that could look.

Here's why we chose to dedicate our entire Big Ideas special report to addressing anti-Black systemic racism in schools.

Congress controls how much gets spent on education. But a presidential administration can influence how it's spent. Here's a few areas to watch.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett said it would be "unthinkable" for the landmark "Brown" desegregation decision to be overruled.

The first season of the Netflix political potboiler was rich with education-policy plotlines, and we're hoping for more of the same.

Spotlight Education week continues with "Frontline" reports on for-profit colleges and a "TED Talks" special featuring a mix of education voices.

Eliminating credit recovery as a path to graduation would do more harm than good, writes one assistant superintendent.

Disconnections make it tough for homeless students to stay in school, says a new study, which also details the new requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act that bolster resources for their support.

A collection of news stories from this week.

Philanthropies may be moving away from big new investments with a K-12 academic focus and toward areas like social and emotional learning and wraparound services, Grantmakers in Education finds.

In a recent high-profile case, Harvard College rescinded its offer to a school-shooting survivor after racist comments he’d written online surfaced. But how common is it for colleges to take back offers? And do students have any recourse?

The three Somerville High School juniors allegedly entered a freshman cabin and sexually assaulted three victims.

A seven-month investigation into an alleged sexual assault by a high school football player in a small Missouri town has set the internet ablaze.

A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a proposed plan that would have paid certain student-athletes as much as $5,000 annually in deferred compensation.

Three Ga. high school seniors have been charged with aggravated sexual battery and consumption of alcohol by a minor stemming from an alleged sexual assault during a post-prom party.

Two high school basketball coaches and an assistant principal/athletic director are facing criminal charges stemming from an alleged hazing incident that resulted in the hospitalization of a 15-year-old boy.

The parents of a 16-year-old who died last fall from football-related brain trauma are suing the New York school districts he played for and the medical responders who tended to him the night he sustained his fatal injury.

USA Gymnastics, which develops the U.S. Olympic team, reportedly failed to inform authorities of numerous allegations regarding sexual abuse by coaches.

A Chicago-based former Little League team has filed a lawsuit against Little League International over the organization's decision to strip the team's United States championship earlier this year.

A Los Angeles judge ruled that a teenage football player may proceed to trial against the national Pop Warner organization, four years after he suffered an on-field injury that left him a quadriplegic.

In the lawsuit, the Chicago-based team's parents allege Little League was aware of potential residency issues, "but chose to ignore and/or deliberately conceal these facts in order to garner higher ratings, publicity, and money."

Since June 2020 Education Week has tracked if & when the over 200 schools named after men with ties to the Confederacy changed their names.

School board members in Tucson, Ariz., acted after learning that a controversial economics textbook that hadn't been properly vetted.

Matto Christ Church in Ishikawa prefecture experienced many answers to prayer since they were introduced to prayer walking by an OMer.

No studies sufficiently answer the question, finds the GAO, which means debates over whether newer restorative-justice approaches help or harm safety are likely to continue.

The miner says Transnet knows full well where its own inefficiencies lie and it needs to start addressing these.

In South Africa, an astounding 81% of Grade 4 pupils can't read for meaning. It's time we looked at approaches in other markets that have clearly delivered results, says Nick Hedley.

In the latest Auditor-General report, what stands out is persistent underperformance and the level of desperation in local governments. Reliance on consultants who don't solve the underlying problem is no longer sustainable, says Khaya Sithole.

Guest blogger Aimée Eubanks Davis says, "We need to address the resource and social-capital network disparities that often exist between elite private and flagship public institutions and their large public counterparts.

Julie Gunlock closes out her week of guest blogging by lamenting how, despite the creative ideas out there, her school district, for example, doesn't seem to be deploying any of the innovative solutions we hear so much about.

Like other Americans, liberal and conservative teachers perceive news sources' credibility differently. How does that affect their teaching of media literacy?

A collection of stories from the week that you may have missed.

Education groups filed a brief expressing concern that excluding undocumented immigrants would affect census numbers used in several federal education funding programs.

In 24 states and the District of Columbia, dual-language learners comprise more than 20 percent of children ages 8 and younger.