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.
From transgender student rights to student free speech, here is what's been decided and what's left for future terms.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Parent-teacher conferences can conjure a familiar scene: adults crammed into child-size chairs, listening to teachers run through a list of students’ achievements and struggles. For many families, they can also mean frustration. Today’s school conferences are sometimes 15 to 20 minutes, with little time for parents to ask their own questions. Adults may arrive […]
Justices are set to consider two cases out of Texas that aim to block such laws, which have regained momentum in recent years.
This year’s startling collapse of New York City’s reading scores, followed by last year’s big gains, has some experts asking: Did something go wrong with the test itself? There is no clear evidence there is a problem, experts emphasize, but the unusually wide swing in scores warrants careful investigation, multiple testing experts told Chalkbeat this […]
Conversations about Education Savings Account programs seem to start in the same place: the money. Where is it going? How is it being used? Who is benefiting? Understandably so. When taxpayer money moves, people talk. But being on the frontlines for several years as a certified literacy specialist — working with families, taking the calls, […]
Prospective home buyers are often experiencing transition in their personal lives. Perhaps a wedding — or divorce — is on the horizon. Maybe their kids have grown up and moved out, or their financial circumstances have changed. In many cases, though, people are looking to move because they want to start or grow their families, said Daryl […]
Updated August 18, 2026 Every few years, testing experts at the U.S. Department of Education weigh state assessments against their “gold standard,” the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as “the nation’s report card.” In a review released in 2021, two states stood out, but not in a good way. Both Iowa and Virginia […]
Every few years, testing experts at the U.S. Department of Education weigh state assessments against their “gold standard,” the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as “the nation’s report card.” In a review released in 2021, two states stood out, but not in a good way. Both Iowa and Virginia established fourth grade reading […]
Foussat Language Academy is embracing a multi-tiered social-emotional learning model to improve screening and classroom supports.
We’re rounding up last week’s news, from the educational impact of extreme weather to chronic absenteeism data.
Maine joined 15 states on Friday in suing the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding. The new lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle between Democratic-led states and the U.S. Department of Education over a mental health grant program that Congress established following the 2018 school […]
This year, at least six states enacted laws trying to reduce the number of students chronically absent from school. The measures include requiring monitoring of absences and publicly releasing data, developing new guidance on the best ways to address the problem and increasing punishments for parents and guardians of chronically absent students. Chronic absenteeism is […]
This year, at least six states enacted laws trying to reduce the number of students chronically absent from school. The measures include requiring monitoring of absences and publicly releasing data, developing new guidance on the best ways to address the problem and increasing punishments for parents and guardians of chronically absent students. Chronic absenteeism is […]
State education agencies are being asked to do something they have rarely been asked to do before: lead. As the federal government’s influence over education recedes, leaving confusion in its wake, calls for guidance, clarity and strategic direction are shifting to states. And they are shifting fast, to agencies that are often understaffed, under-resourced and […]
For anyone who cares about student literacy, the past few years have given us reason to cheer. While trends in national test scores, young people’s reading habits, and talk of a “learning recession” are clear causes for concern, there’s another side to the story. More than 40 states now mandate evidence-based reading instruction in public […]
On a mid-June morning in the small city of Norfolk, Nebraska, a group of 2- and 3-year-olds clumsily ran around a playroom wearing identical purple cloth vests. As the toddlers babbled to their teachers, a rectangular recording device hidden in a chest pocket captured every word as they asked to go to the bathroom, talked […]
On a mid-June morning in the small city of Norfolk, Nebraska, a group of 2- and 3-year-olds clumsily ran around a playroom wearing identical purple cloth vests. As the toddlers babbled to their teachers, a rectangular recording device hidden in a chest pocket captured every word as they asked to go to the bathroom, talked […]
We’re rounding up last week’s news, from students with disabilities in general classrooms to state AI laws.
Why preventative maintenance is critical for safe, reliable K-12 cafeteria operations.
Schools nationwide face a tough balancing act: boosting achievement while budgets shrink and staff struggle.
Updated When Jen Hanson, a veteran multilingual educator, first arrived at Denver’s Cherry Creek School District in June 2025, she said she quickly suspected the district was creating its own rules for moving students out of its English learner program, leaving her to question whether it was holding on to kids — and the state […]
Standardized testing has long been the gold standard of student success. Large-scale assessments give districts a big-picture view of student progress, offering convenient data points to compare performance, identify trends and demonstrate accountability. But numbers can only tell part of the story. They never capture the child behind the score — the effort behind mastering […]
As students head back to class across the country, Varsity Tutors for Schools, one of the nation’s largest providers, has gone out of business. In a shareholder letter last week, Chuck Cohn, CEO of Nerdy, Varsity’s parent company, wrote that leaders would “wind down” the online service they launched during the pandemic as districts nationwide […]
For the past several years in Miami public schools, every student — including my own children — could stand in the same cafeteria line, carry the same tray and eat lunch for free. But on July 22, the Miami-Dade County School Board voted to end its universal school lunch program, reversing a policy that had […]
It’s 2026. Satellites connect to devices in our pockets, artificial intelligence algorithms can drive cars and scan X-rays, and Homer’s 3,000-year-old poem is the basis for the summer’s hottest movie. But there’s always a but. And right now, in a time when public school absences remain stubbornly high since Covid closures five years ago, it […]
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.
School marketing and five benefits of education research.
Schools and districts can take steps to modernize campuses and prepare for weather disruptions, says UndauntedK12.
Princess Moss was elected president of the National Education Association during its annual representative assembly on Sunday. She was previously vice president of the nation’s largest teachers union and a music teacher from Louisa County, Virginia. Moss won the election with 50.3% of votes from a delegate assembly of nearly 6,000 members, according to the […]
A second grader in Norway drew a YouTube logo when my colleagues and I asked what they wanted to be when they grow up. When we asked why, the child explained that YouTubers are famous and make lots of money. When we asked second graders in Wisconsin this same question, we were surprised to often […]
The teenagers at the entrepreneurship class at a new Detroit Boys and Girls Club had ideas for a business or product they could create. Now they had to refine them and think about how to pitch them to investors or customers. “Go back to your product statement, what your product is, and then tell us […]
Whether Title IX permits transgender students to play on sports teams aligning with their gender identity is among the gray areas that may be settled by future cases.
Peter Rosario has spent years watching his teachers help Spanish-speaking preschoolers sound out English words at La Casa de Don Pedro, a Newark-based nonprofit organization that offers support for immigrant families and contracts with Newark Public Schools to provide state-funded preschool. But Rosario says the state’s investment in programs like his hasn’t turned into clear […]
A family shopping for college today knows more about the cost of a mortgage than the real price of a college degree. That confusion isn’t only a technical problem inside financial aid offices. It’s a public trust problem for higher education. This problem isn’t new. In 1998, the National Commission on the Cost of Higher […]
When Joel Francik became principal of Central Elementary School in 2019, all of his prior education experience had been in middle school — first as a teacher, then as an assistant principal. He wanted the job, he said, because he thought he could make a bigger difference in students’ lives if he met them earlier […]
A GAO report finds 42 states and the District of Columbia increased the share of students with disabilities in general education classes.
The most recent moves outsource various special education and civil rights activities to the departments of Health and Human Services and Justice.
We’re rounding up last week’s news, from “misconceptions” at the Education Department to Texas’ curriculum change.
As a professor, I recently gave a chatbot a weak student thesis, propped up by evidence that did not support the claim, and asked what it thought. It called the argument sharp, the structure clear and the reasoning strong. My job is to tell a student, kindly, when an argument is not working yet. But […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is planning a dramatic overhaul of Head Start that would gut its quality standards, upending the hallmarks of the early education program for impoverished children, two people familiar with the deliberations said. Head Start, established in the 1960s to help fight poverty, has long been considered by experts to be […]
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced in-person classroom instruction to go virtual, students suddenly needed to have their own laptops or tablets in order to interact with teachers and complete assignments. Most states used federal pandemic funding to address the digital divide. This refers to the gap between students and families who had their own tablets, […]
Money will start flowing in January for the new federal scholarship tax credit program. Per the law, taxpayers will be able to direct $1,700 of their annual federal taxes to fund scholarships for students. Since public school students are eligible, Edunomics Lab outlined a way that districts could tap real money — we estimate $1,000 […]
As book bans surge nationwide, Jan Lacina — professor at Texas Christian University and associate editor of the Early Childhood Education Journal — explores the benefits of diverse children’s literature in her new textbook for educators, “Children’s Literature to Read Our World.” The research-grounded guide aims to help teachers intentionally select books for their students, […]
This article was co-published with FastCompany. NEWNAN, Ga. — Arnco-Sargent Elementary sits in a wooded area on a two-lane road about 50 miles south of Atlanta. Across the street is a child care center. A Baptist church is less than a mile away. But if developers get their way, the school’s newest neighbor could be […]
Middle schoolers aren't reading for fun anymore. Here's how to bring the joy back.
Why the most successful school districts are already planning for next summer.
We’re rounding up last week’s news, from the impact of school closures on teacher turnover to districts’ social media lawsuits.
CHICAGO — A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is calling for an overhaul of the nation’s childcare system, which they say is failing children, parents and providers. The group of 13 Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who have spent the last year studying childcare access and affordability problems, offered an array of policy recommendations during the […]