Category: Education

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Listenwise. Last week, on February 27, 2025, under the directive of the new U.S. administration, the Department of Education launched a portal it has nicknamed the “End DEI Portal.” This online form is a place for “students, parents, teachers, and the broader community to report illegal…

Reading time, 3 minutes: Are teachers making the most of the teenage brain in the classroom? Adolescence – defined as the period from puberty to around age 25 – is a crucial period of brain development, influencing learning, behaviour, and social cognition. Teachers who understand these changes can enhance engagement, self-regulation, and student outcomes. This…

President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday directing the closure of the U.S. Department of Education, according to sources briefed on the matter. A draft of the order, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, instructs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure”…

Trump to Sign Order Abolishing Education Department Today Katherine Knott Thu, 03/06/2025 – 10:28 AM The long-awaited directive comes as the agency is preparing to lay off likely hundreds of employees and just days after Secretary Linda McMahon took the reins. Byline(s) Jessica Blake  Trump to Sign Order Abolishing Education Department Today Katherine Knott Thu,…

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All the best ways to evaluate learning before, during, and after it happens. All the best ways to evaluate learning before, during, and after it happens. Career Advice, Testing We Are Teachers

This story about talking to kids was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, with support from the Spencer Fellowship at Columbia Journalism School. Sign up for the Early Childhood newsletter. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — When Rickeyda Carter started teaching young children, she led story time…

NIH Nominee Skirts Questions on Plan to Cut Indirect Cost Rates kathryn.palmer… Thu, 03/06/2025 – 03:00 AM At a key hearing Wednesday, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said he’s committed to providing NIH-funded scientists the resources they need. But he offered few specifics on how he’ll do that amid Trump’s plans to slash the $47 billion agency’s budget….