Named after the hundred-eyed watchman of Greek myth, Argus watches the education landscape: spotting new opportunities, pressure-testing the ventures we're building, and tracing every read back to the real-world signals behind it.
The evidence library: the raw signals the pipeline is watching across the education ecosystem. Every idea is built from these.
A major and final piece of West Virginia lawmakers’ 2023 hallmark education legislation goes into effect this school year when schools are required to retain third graders whose reading and math abilities aren’t at grade level. Lawmakers carved out some exceptions for students with disabilities and other young learners. The robust education bill, known as […]
The district offered free school meals for the past four years through the Community Eligibility Provision but no longer qualifies for the federal program.
The department will no longer include information on nonbinary students and has excluded "gender identity" from its definition of rape.
Short of dropping a dead weight copy of the state Education Code on your foot, a State Board of Education agenda item on the California School Dashboard normally wouldn’t evoke tears. But Jessica Sawko’s tears earlier this month were spontaneous and heartfelt during her one-minute testimony before the State Board of Education. They expressed joy […]
In the Pilsen neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side, there’s a mural of my grandfather selling ice cream. My dad worked construction and sold ice cream too, and he and my mom both spent years working in factories. The mural is a tangible reminder of where I came from and how far my family has traveled […]
Anthropic recently rolled out its Claude for Teachers tool, making a free version of Claude with advanced technical capacities available to any K-12 U.S. educator who applies to the company using a school email address and asserts that CfT will be used for educational purposes. The tool has many features that will make it appealing […]
Veteran educators are among those most likely to exit, leaving leaders to rely on novice teachers at a time when students need stability and experience.
From enrollment trends to student eligibility for the new federal school choice program, what did you learn from our recent stories?
A Louisiana teacher is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his constitutional challenge to a state law that requires the Ten Commandments to be posted in K-12 and college classrooms. The posters began going up in classrooms this summer, following the approval of a 2024 law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in […]
In a step toward giving math the attention early literacy has gotten, the Legislature on Monday approved a bill that would require schools to assess the math capabilities of all students in kindergarten through second grade each year, beginning in 2028-29. The bill would also require districts to provide math support, such as additional coaching […]
Sending children off to their first semester of life away from home can be a nerve-racking experience for many parents and guardians. The world somehow feels scarier today than it was when they went off to college — or at least, social media makes it appear that way. As a result, today’s parents understandably seek […]
More than half of these students experienced one negative event, such as verbal harassment, in the last year, Glisten and Trevor Project find.
Every year, New York City surveys families, teachers and students about their experience with the public schools. The questionnaires are designed to “support a dialogue among all members of a school or program’s community about how to make the school or program a better place for learning.” Unfortunately, they reveal a large disconnect between what […]
Accessibility “cannot be an afterthought” when an employer uses online systems for such purposes, an EEOC attorney said.
A Massachusetts policy that restricts where private school students can receive publicly funded special education services is at the center of the lawsuit.
From fiscal “red flags” to artificial intelligence in school HR, what did you learn from our recent stories?
At a Board of Regents meeting Monday, state education officials announced that high school graduates in New York could soon start receiving a new type of diploma — one that reflects their skills and knowledge, rather than the number of credits they’ve earned. The new diploma is a central component of New York Inspires, the State Education […]
Indiana’s school choice program leaves its nearly 300,000 rural public school students with fewer options and fewer resources while funding the private education of others. More than one in four Indiana school students, or 28%, reside in rural areas. A recent analysis of each of Indiana’s 82 rural counties found that only eight, or fewer […]
The emergency order has set off ripple effects in lower courts and triggered federal probes into a number of districts in recent months.
It’s the same picture, every year, when my family visits India. My uncle is sitting right in the middle of the gathering, and yet the conversation never touches him. He has cerebral palsy and depends entirely on others for daily life. He rarely speaks. He rarely joins in. Then someone picks up a guitar. From […]
In one of the opening scenes of “Toy Story 5,” Jessie — a cowgirl doll — tries to find out why the twins who live across the street never want to play with her owner Bonnie. What she finds, when she peers through the window of the neighbor’s home, is the two young children on […]
The Texas State Board of Education will vote Friday on a set of new social studies standards that have drawn fire and fervor for espousing pro-American views and Christian values. If approved, the vote would typically mark the beginning of a long, and probably divisive, process to design curriculum based on the standards. But The […]
Proficiency by grade 3 is linked to long-term academic and life outcomes, making early identification of struggling students key.
From a large district’s consolidation plan to a report on states meeting special education requirements, what did you learn from our recent stories?
By some metrics, things are looking up for the Providence Public School District (PPSD). Students are coming to class more often. Their standardized test scores are rising. And more of them are graduating high school. These are a few of the accomplishments the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) highlights in a 62-page report released […]
Civil rights advocates say students of color will be harmed by the removal of the tool used to investigate racial discrimination.
BOSTON — Tatiyana Reaves got into trouble recently for writing a one-syllable word — and not the one you’d think. Taking a computer class at her Fayetteville, N.C., high school, she handed in a paper with the offending word: whilst. “[The teacher] called me over, and she was like, ‘I don’t want to see you […]
For as long as anyone remembers, no childcare center on Kauaʻi has had a single opening for an infant or toddler. Not one. On this tropical island lush with vegetation, the childcare landscape is desolate. Kauaʻi is the only major Hawaiian island that has gone without center-based infant and toddler care for most of the […]
This year, my son’s school sent out a book for the entire district to read, “The One and Only Ivan,” about a gorilla who lives in a cage in a mall on the side of a highway. While the book was deeply depressing, what was even more heartbreaking was the fact that my fourth grader, […]
States are in a tough bind as they contemplate how to address childcare needs. The extra federal money from the pandemic era is gone just as they are trying to swallow higher spending and cost shifts mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Republicans passed last year. Some states have pulled back on […]
From post-COVID academic recovery research to district leaders’ top concerns, what did you learn from our recent stories?
The second Trump administration has stepped up efforts to discourage use of the program, which school leaders have used to fill crucial shortages.
When Mississippi overhauled its literacy education in 2013, one of the most controversial pieces was a policy to retain third graders if they couldn’t pass the reading portion of the state’s English language arts assessment. Years later, as education officials across the country have taken notice of Mississippi’s literacy gains, more states have adopted their […]
The move would give the agency broad authority to end grants, including “for convenience,” after such approaches have led to legal disputes.
High school came with more responsibility and less accountability for Josiah Ulukita. Courses were much harder, teachers were less strict about attendance and it was easier to skip school with friends or go on his phone during class, he said. Ulukita went from easily passing middle school to failing freshman English and social studies. After […]
Missouri education officials are preparing to ask lawmakers for roughly $300 million more for public schools next year, setting up a potentially difficult budget fight as the state faces a projected revenue shortfall. The numbers are yet to be finalized, but the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s preliminary report shows that recent changes to […]
American education has spent decades searching for explanations for declining achievement. Poverty, inequality, school funding, curriculum, technology, teacher quality and the effects of the pandemic all matter. Yet one of the most consequential variables receives far less attention: what parents expect from their children and what happens when those expectations weaken. The issue is not […]
From increased vaccine exemptions in kindergarten to E-rate’s uncertain future under the FCC, what did you learn from our recent stories?
Policy changes under the Trump administration will improve quality and access, write two top federal officials.
Math improvement rarely stalls because districts aren’t taking action. More often, it stalls because well-intentioned supports accumulate faster than schools can turn them into a coherent, actionable instructional plan. The instinct to seek additional support is understandable. Students need help immediately. Teachers deserve time and training. Families want progress they can see. So districts invest […]
The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himself was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. Douglass described in his 1845 autobiography how one of his enslavers, Mrs. Auld, began teaching him to read when he […]
When a student is in crisis, the hardest problems are easier to solve when someone already knows their story, and trust is already there. The heart of New York City’s Every Child and Family is Known initiative are the caring adults in schools who check in with students living in temporary housing, build relationships with […]
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is again joining a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education as it continues trying to end federal grants for school-based mental health services. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Tong joined a lawsuit about these same grants one year ago. That’s when the Department of Education initially discontinued the […]