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.
Walk into a public high school in New England, and it will likely look largely the same as it did 50 years ago: a bell schedule, class periods for each academic subject, students sorted into regular and honors tracks, teachers teaching a single subject, students generally compliant, passive and very bored. They still distribute opportunity, […]
As some districts push back against investigations and federal funding threats, others are changing their policies after warnings from the government.
Giles Sims, 34, was sick of getting passed over for jobs because he didn’t have a college degree. But with a wife and a widowed mother to help support, he needed a quick solution. So the laid-off web developer turned to one of a growing number of three-year degree programs. “I can’t afford to be […]
Policymakers have invested heavily in recent years to create new career pathways for high school students. Career and technical education has expanded dramatically, as have the credentials high schoolers can earn. Yet too many students lack the guidance they need to benefit from these growing opportunities. Counselor shortages remain persistently severe, while career navigation is often […]
Wendy Graham’s two kids first encountered Amira, a popular artificial intelligence tutoring platform, in 2025, during a summer reading program in New Mexico. She also used it at home with her daughter, now a fourth grader. But she found that the purple-haired avatar with the big, round glasses didn’t seem to understand where her daughter […]
As historic cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program take effect, a member of Congress is expressing concern over access to free school meals.
States are praising the agreement's block on school-day notifications, daily time limits and other promised changes.
Updated A Senate committee advanced legislation Thursday aimed at undoing the Trump administration’s efforts to split apart the U.S. Department of Education. The bill delivers the plan the biggest rebuke since Education Secretary Linda McMahon began shifting offices to other agencies last year. The education committee’s bill would keep oversight of K-12 and services for […]
A bill that would require states to only use the science of reading in classrooms in order to qualify for a multi-million dollar funding grant passed with bipartisan support from a committee of federal lawmakers Thursday morning. The READ Act (S.4689) would strengthen the federal government’s oversight of the science of reading through amendments to […]
The bill moves to the full Senate just weeks after the House introduced 10 bills that would codify some of the moves.
Plenty of students have math anxiety. It turns out some educators have their own anxiety about teaching the subject, a new study finds. And that appears to affect their students — especially those already struggling in the subject. The recently published paper draws on an unusually detailed survey of teachers in Indiana. They were asked […]
A bipartisan coalition of state lawmakers from around the nation on Monday identified lack of facilities and high costs as two leading challenges states are facing in addressing childcare needs. The bipartisan group, which includes a New Mexico lawmaker, presented their findings at the National Conference of State Legislatures in Chicago, along with several proposed […]
It is impossible to imagine a future that does not have data science embedded in our daily lives. The field combines statistics, coding, and critical thinking to extract meaning from data, making it a desirable skill across industries. Yet most American students graduate without any tested knowledge of it. One high school teacher in Wisconsin […]
As a “dot-commer” who transitioned to education, Jared Bloom brings a unique perspective to K-12 tech adoption.
Young adults were the least likely to support all-day school bans, but at least half of Americans age 30 or older back them.
Most Michigan teachers feel deeply dedicated to their profession, but a quarter of them are considering leaving the profession within a year, and 56% might leave within five years. Those are the results of a new poll released Tuesday. It was commissioned by Michigan Educator Workforce Initiative, an organization focused on addressing the state’s teacher […]
Chronic academic underperformance at two Austin public schools has the district in jeopardy of severe state sanctions. Now, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath will decide what intervention looks like for the school district of nearly 70,000 students. Morath must either close the struggling schools or replace the locally elected school trustees and superintendent with leaders […]
A Dear Colleague letter said such surveys are automatically considered “required” because students may feel influenced to fill them out.
Through MI College Match, students can get automatic college acceptance offers by uploading their transcripts to a free online portal.
Over the past several years, states across the country have rewritten early literacy policy at an unprecedented pace. Science of reading legislation, teacher training requirements, instructional material reforms, and early intervention initiatives have reshaped the national literacy landscape. Today, nearly every state has taken meaningful steps to strengthen reading instruction. But passing legislation was intended […]
In the past five years, there has been a surge in states playing a prominent role in improving outcomes for K-12 students. They’ve adopted evidence-based literacy policies, focused attention on math, and invested public dollars to sustain high-dosage tutoring. But gaining perhaps the most momentum across the country recently is state attention on expanding career […]
Robert Franklin, a retired Oklahoma educator, was enjoying life as a grandfather and giving lectures on the politics of education when he decided to become a candidate himself. Now he’s likely to be the next state superintendent after defeating teacher and conservative pastor James Taylor in the Republican runoff Tuesday. “I thought to myself, ‘If […]
The nation’s 100 largest districts averaged 2.4 out of 8 concerning indicators — the worst performance at any government level, the Reason Foundation said.
Advocacy groups and researchers suggest measures to prevent children from wandering away from school or caregivers and into harm's way.
The commission approved a request for public comment on whether it should reconsider the 30-year program that helps schools connect to the internet.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici filed impeachment articles accusing the secretary of illegally transferring the department's duties to other federal agencies.
Class Disrupted is an education podcast featuring author Michael Horn and Futre’s Diane Tavenner in conversation with educators, school leaders, students and other members of school communities as they investigate the challenges facing the education system in the aftermath of the pandemic — and where we should go from here. Find every episode by bookmarking […]
The agency released widely contested regulations this spring that blocked access to higher borrowing limits for many graduate students.
Kansas City Public Schools teachers will receive a 5% base salary raise after the school board approved a new collective bargaining agreement with the Kansas City Federation of Teachers, the district’s teachers union. Superintendent Jennifer Collier called the raise “historic.” “This is the highest pay increase for KCPS teachers in recent memory and brings our […]
Linda McMahon became the first U.S. education secretary to be the target of impeachment proceedings Thursday. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, a member of the House education committee, filed three articles of impeachment against McMahon, noting the secretary’s “willful intent to unilaterally dismantle and eliminate the Department of Education.” Bonamici announced her plans a week ago, prompting […]
In June 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Nestling House, a childcare center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was preparing to reopen after closing down in mid-March, like so many other childcare programs around the country. It would be a process, with some rooms ready before others, and the leadership team knew things would be different once the […]
As a special education advocate in Oklahoma, Lucia Frohling handles about 40 cases per year in which schools reduce class time for students with disabilities, often for behavior issues or serious medical conditions. When she negotiates with school officials, she often leans on a 2022 warning from the federal government that such “informal removals” — […]
The contracts offer a way for school districts to lock in costs as electricity prices rise, says Louis Maltezos, co-president of the energy infrastructure company.
About 60% of Americans support some form of teacher-led school prayer, but most say student participation should be optional, Pew Research found.
Even a federal law enforcement vehicle parked a block and a half away were enough to impact attendance, an Annenberg researcher said.
The Los Angeles Unified Board voted unanimously to appoint Andres Chait, a longtime district administrator, as superintendent days after his predecessor resigned. “This board’s decision reflects the confidence in Mr. Chait’s leadership, his decades of service to Los Angeles Unified, and his demonstrated ability to guide the district during this period of transition,” said board […]
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. It’s not quite the “Mississippi Miracle,” but California’s reading scores have been inching upwards since the state poured billions into changing the way students learn to read. A shortage of literacy coaches, however, may be preventing students from improving even more. In 2013, before California overhauled its […]
A bipartisan bill would prohibit interagency agreements for various K-12 and postsecondary activities. The other addresses special education specifically.
It’s been a difficult year for Mary Moody, owner of the top-rated Silver Bluff Kids Early Learning Center in Haywood County. She said her business has struggled since federal pandemic funds used to keep childcare centers open ran out in 2025. Moody didn’t want to cut staff salaries after the federal money ran out, she […]
Every soccer season, athletes like me are taught to watch for headaches, dizziness and blurred vision after a concussion. But no one has ever taught many of us that a concussion can also affect our mental health. Like millions of young athletes nationwide, I have played sports since I was 4 years old. Soccer has […]
The groundbreaking new board overseeing the Indianapolis Public Schools and charter schools in the city has hired the head of a major national charter school organization as its first executive director. Karega Rausch, president and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers since 2020, was selected Wednesday to lead the Indianapolis Public Education […]
You probably know that it’s been a choppy semiquincentennial summer here in the District of Columbia. The National Mall’s murky, smelly reflecting pool and the sparsely attended American State Fair made national news. There’s been less coverage of the degree to which the capital’s bunkered down — fences and barriers have made walking the Mall […]
Black students have been excluded from high-quality mathematics for generations — with dire outcomes academically and professionally, a California-based math equity group found. Just Equation’s recent report, “Calculated Barriers,” notes that while these students make up 15% of the nation’s public school population, they accounted for only 6% of those enrolled in AP math classes […]
Cyber criminals can use building technology to breach school district networks, so facility managers must be part of the security effort, says CoSN CEO.
Consistently high absenteeism significantly hindered districts’ pandemic recovery, NWEA finds. An AEI report suggests attendance gains are slowing.
Most school lunch payments will see a 1 cent increase in 2026-27 from last year's rates under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual adjustment.
A Dear Colleague letter said recreational and educational technology use are not synonymous — while also acknowledging screen time concerns.
Supportive teachers can make a world of difference for transgender students, influencing their sense of safety and academic engagement — often in the face of discrimination and bullying — according to new research from two national LGBTQ+ advocacy groups. Students whose identities are affirmed at school report a greater sense of belonging and higher grades, […]
Mayor Zohran Mamdani sued the New York City Council on Wednesday, hours after a bill giving classroom paraprofessionals $10,000 in bonus pay became law. The lawsuit claims that the council’s approval of bonuses for some of the city’s lowest-paid school employees is unlawful because it bypasses the traditional collective bargaining process. The bill, passed unanimously […]
An "abstinence-only approach" led to "unreasonable or unexplained" grant cancellations, said the judge, but he stopped short of reinstating funds.