Education

Buher & Friedlander: Educators are making decisions about emerging technology without answers to basic questions about the benefits and dangers…

For many child-care providers, COVID-19 has led to large enrollment drops, heightened costs, and staffing challenges. For some, it has meant closure. In a recent statement, President Joe Biden called out the “acute, immediate child…

With child care, homeless families have a better chance at finding secure jobs, housing…

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity …

Now is the time to double down on the investments we’ve made since 2020 in shoring up our educator workforce and its pipeline.

Enough is enough. We feel this with each school shooting we endure. We feel this with each suicide that takes a loved one from us far too soon. More …

A student-turned-teacher aims to equip college students with the knowledge to help solve the climate crisis.

The “leaky pipeline” of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), which is especially acute for academic mothers, continues to be problematic as women face continuous cycles of barriers and obstacles to advancing …

Child care providers and employees have kept our economy going during a time when the government, businesses and families have been focused on COVID-19 “rescue.” Now, as we move to…

Limited transportation options help explain why Detroit students miss more school than their peers across the U.S., with disastrous consequences.

Only a fraction of students who need post-pandemic tutoring have received it — but experts say a massive expansion is still possible.

Children born today will bear the brunt of the burden of climate change despite having the least responsibility for causing it. Growing calls to position climate change as a child’s rights…