13+ hour, 7+ min ago   (849+ words) In one of Denver’s wealthiest suburbs, where median family income tops $150,000 and nearly every kid is expected to go to college, students are now lining up for trade certifications. Their parents aren’t worried; in fact, most of them are championing…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1678+ words) SEWARD, Alaska — It was 2018 when Casie Warner first realized there was a major problem in this popular cruise port, nestled on an inlet about a two-hour drive south of Anchorage. At the time, Warner worked as a home visitor, providing…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (671+ words) For 15 years, we let children carry cellphones into most of our classrooms. By the time states began ordering the phones out, a generation had spent its childhood inundated by screens. We had protected everything about the arrangement except for the…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (969+ words) I was supposed to be dancing, but instead I had been chatting incessantly. The teacher sat me under the piano so I could focus. From that tucked-away spot, I could see nothing but feet. Sneakers and socks sliding across the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1489+ words) MONTPELIER, Vt. — All red brick and white trim and dating from as far back as the 1870s, the buildings that frame a grassy quad on a hill above Vermont’s capital city comprise the quintessential college campus. Behind the scenes, this holdover…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (628+ words) Universities across the country are investing in artificial intelligence literacy. Students are attending workshops, experimenting with generative AI tools and earning certificates meant to show that they are ready for an economy shaped by AI. The problem is that we…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1523+ words) Before Kris and Matthew Ferderer could take their 9-month-old daughter, Elliott, home for the first time, they had to receive specialized training to manage her oxygen equipment, feeding tubes and a catheter that delivered medication directly to her heart. Elliott,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (947+ words) FOLSOM, Calif. — At Folsom Lake College’s main administrative building, a flyer on the wall tells undocumented students, “You can still go to college in California even with the current political climate.” “Keep going,” it says. “You are not alone.” “I…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (836+ words) Something essential has been missing from the national conversation about what it will take to improve and sustain early childhood education. We are not producing nearly enough leaders with the specialized expertise to turn good policy ideas into lasting systems…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1191+ words) CHICAGO — Midway through her graduate nursing program, Yesenia Raithel Vargas made a desperate plea to a Facebook group for other moms in Chicago: Does anyone know a licensed therapist willing to let her sit in on sessions and work with…...