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Teachers work with artificial intelligence on their laptops during the Charleston County School District Charleston Educator Symposium on July 22, 2026, in North Charleston, S.C. Districts still provide most of the teacher training for AI use in the classroom, but a national teachers' college group says preservice programs need to think through their approach to the subject, too.
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Jeanette Vyhanek, a counselor at Wellstone Elementary in St. Paul, Minn., teaches a class of kindergarten students on Oct. 31, 2025. Federal grants to expand the ranks of school counselors and other school mental health services were among hundreds terminated by the Trump administration in 2025. New rules from the U.S. Department of Education would give the federal agency greater latitude to end in-progress grants.
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The analysis looked into dual-enrollment failures and participating students' eventual college enrollment.
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Students walk in the hallways on the first day of school at Heritage High School in Saginaw, Mich., on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. Dual-enrollment classes for high school students have grown increasingly common in recent years. A new study finds socioeconomically disadvantaged students are more likely to fail such classes, but that even those students who fail are more likely than peers to enroll in college.
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Learning about community comes before academics in Finnish preschools, writes a teacher educator.
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A new Pew survey found gaps remain in schools' language-course offerings.
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