K-12 Dive

A Center on Reinventing Public Education report outlines ways to successfully transform school systems for improvement.

We’re rounding up last week’s news, including HHS’ proposal to overhaul Head Start and the online safety bills heading to the Senate floor.

If a student is chronically absent every year, they miss up to a full instructional year by the time they graduate high school, a Bellwether analysis found.

The trend may be due to reduced capacity at the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, among other challenges, CEC and NASDSE say.

The association does not believe setting time limits on technology use in schools is helpful in measuring quality screen time, its board chair said.

A senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress breaks down how and why the nation’s third-largest district lost access to district-wide free meals.

The model has become a popular school choice option post-pandemic, and calls for policymakers to give the sector more structure are growing.

Open-ended experiments that engage students with a “need to know” factor rather than a “cookie-cutter” approach are key, say veteran science teachers.

Bringing the technique into the classroom can expand conversations and provide students a layer of safety in responding, educators say.

The lawsuit seeks to vacate the agency’s exclusion of advanced degree programs in fields like education, which caps student loans at $100,000.