Lindsey Henderson, a secondary-mathematics specialist for the Utah board of education, talks about data science during a seminar at Pleasant Grove High School in Pleasant Grove, Utah, on May 30, 2023.
Fourth-grade students Briley Williams, 9, left, and Jacqueline Naula, 9, work together in their English/language arts class at Israel Putnam Elementary School in Meriden, Conn., on Dec. 9, 2022. Meriden schools have made progress on attendance and addressing social-emotional learning needs.
Student teacher Lana Scott, who plans to graduate from Bowie State University in the spring of 2023, teaches a small group of kindergartners at Whitehall Elementary School the alphabet, Jan. 24, 2023, in Bowie, Md.
Kimberly Hankins, the superintendent of the Lower Kuskokwim School District in Bethel, Alaska, speaks before a visit from first lady Jill Biden at the Bethel Regional High School gym on May 17, 2023.
Former President Donald Trump addresses the crowd at the Moms for Liberty national summit in Philadelphia on June 30, 2023. Trump is more focused on education during his third presidential run, and has said multiple times that school principals should be elected.
Students walk through a gate at Harvard University on June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. Harvard was a named defendant in a June U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the consideration of race in college admissions.
First grader June Ferguson participates in a Slow Reveal Graph exercise about heart rates in animals led by Jenna Laib, the math specialist at Michael Driscoll School in Brookline, Mass., in June. Laib curates a website for the program, which helps students make sense of data by gradually revealing information.
