Participants of OM Costa Rica's Pearl Process programme start their own small groups to impact more women in high-risk communities.

An OM Arts student shares how picking up trash led to sharing the gospel in Israel.

When Mom, from Cambodia, reassures a sexually-abused girl that God cares, her words are like a healing salve applied to an open wound.

When making formal statements, school and district leaders should call out racist patterns and commit to dismantling White supremacy, advise Dorinda J. Carter Andrews and Shaun R. Harper.

The College Board's national experiment with virtual AP exams gets underway this week amid accusations and stern warnings about student cheating.

A new surveys shows that many of this year's high school upperclassmen are behind in their efforts to prepare for post-secondary education.

Football, wrestling and competitive cheer pose a high risk for COVID-19 spread, while swimming and golf are at the low end of the risk scale developed by a national panel.

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13). A few in OM’s history have experienced this and are honoured as modern-day martyrs.

"How can we honour these 'mothers and fathers' [of OM]," asks David Greenlee. "Inclusion is one way, encouraging their ongoing participation, not forgetting them in our concern."

"Every time we communicate, there is potential to inform and inspire others for mission. Shall we not then covenant to ‘tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth’?" asks Greg Kernaghan.

"Indeed, there are so many variables as we ‘see’ vibrant communities develop among the least-reached peoples. As we work towards this vision, I nevertheless fall back on the age-old cliché that my father stressed repeatedly: 'We are not called to be successful, but called to be faithful.'"

"I am reminded that we are called to be hospitable (Romans 12:13) and we demonstrate this by how we welcome new believers and each other," says Heather. "This is easy to do when we all have similar backgrounds and have known each other for years. But as the Church, and our movement, becomes more diverse, do we merely tolerate or do we warmly welcome newcomers?"

OM Ministry Leader, Lenna Lidstone, discusses how to use Discovery Bible Studies to see vibrant communities of Jesus Followers among the least reached.

The Education Department programs the president wants to consolidate into a block grant deal with English-language acquisition, charter schools, after-school activities, rural education, and more.

On Thursday, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced legislation that would establish a national standard for youth-concussion treatment and prevention.

The version of the tax bill passed by the Republican-led Senate would double the amount teachers can deduct for classroom supplies.

The answer is unclear but "the threat is real," English-language-learner advocacy groups say. The advocates say the Education Department has evaded their questions about the future of the office of English-language acquisition.

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Congress grilled the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google about "pandemic profiteering," anti-competitive practices, and the flow of misinformation about COVID-19.

Education needs to stop going around in circles, writes Stanford’s Thomas S. Dee.

When COVID-19 hit, two early-childhood centers put their competition aside to work together to support families during the pandemic. Here's how they did it.

New sheets outlines how districts can support English-learner students, but concedes that "schools may not be able to provide all services in the same manner they are typically provided."

Native-language assessments may more fully reflect what English-language learners know and can do academically after months away from school. But not all states offer them.

Two U.S. Department of Education employees have been detailed to Iraq’s education team, but their work has been inhibited while they are holed up for safety reasons.

Why do bright young teachers leave urban schools? What will it take to keep them there?

When some students are online and others in school buildings, how can teachers make sure everyone is learning what they need to learn?

All Classroom Q&A posts sharing classroom-management advice (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post.

Penn State Laureate Michele Dunleavy, professor of dance at the University Park campus, will visit Penn State Altoona, Beaver, Shenango and Behrend the week of Sept. 16 for class visits, performances and workshops. It will be the first leg of her tour across the commonwealth during the 2024–25 academic year.

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.

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

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is partnering with think tanks and advocacy groups across the country in a campaign encouraging public employees to consider dropping their union memberships.

This school year doesn't have to repeat the educational inequities of the spring. We talked with educators, parents, and experts to find a better way.

Layoffs that are based on seniority can disproportionately affect Black and brown teachers.

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.

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

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

Lots of ink for this new America's Promise report finding increased high school graduation rates from 2002 to 2008, as well as a decrease in the number of high schools with very high drop-out rates. Good news, ok, but still no cause for celebration: As my colleague Andy Rotherham notes, our nation's

The district is reconnecting high school dropouts by focusing on life goals, academic gaps, social-emotional challenges, and personal commitments.

More than 40 states are considering postsecondary and career readiness in school performance in some way in their Every Student Succeeds Act plans.

Many children whose parents didn't go to college aim for degrees in higher education, but they're far less prepared to go to college than their peers who grew up with college-educated parents, finds a new report.

The College Board's plan to score students' 'level of disadvantage' based on their schools and neighborhoods has some college counselors asking: Will wealthy parents try to game the system?

Two recent studies of Teach to One: Math highlight the tension in math between grade-level-based accountability systems and approaches to instruction that enable more personalized paths to college and career readiness.

An EL Education school in Rochester, NY, shows that giving young children real problems to solve can instill the qualities students will need as adults.

Preparing students for the workforce isn't the most important purpose of higher education, according to a survey of the trustees that lead the country's colleges and universities.

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?

Only 3 percent of adults think students are "very prepared" for college when they graduate from high school, according to a Gallup survey released last week.

In a new exploration of dual enrollment, the Education Commission of the States calls on states to rethink their restrictive policies.

Students from low-income families face a bumpier road than their wealthier peers, according to the National Center for Education Statistics' annual Condition of Education data compendium.