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Ten-year-old Gavin Williams is a lively and affectionate youngster who loves to visit museums, experiment with computer-coding and plunge into ocean waves

In March, the National Education Policy Center published a policy statement claiming that policymakers “should realize there is no settled science of readi

Imagine you are a mature, intelligent middle-school student who finds it difficult to write anything—numbers or letters—on paper in a way that makes sense.

We’re facing a global emergency where tens of millions of children are seeing their education disrupted. But the truth is that for many kids and families,

On March 27, two weeks ago last Friday, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the CARES Act), a $2 trillion stimul

OK, I have a confession to make. I have not been as good at monitoring my children’s internet access as I should have been. If I had to grade myself, I wou

Our family has been working from home with children for seven years. For the past two years, we have been unschooling our now 7-year-old. Before that, he did two years of half-day preschool. The closer we came to sending our kiddo to public school, the more I started seeing homeschool as a more viable option. This wasn’t always an easy choice, but it has made sense for our family.

As the calendar turns to April, I typically end up asking myself the same question every school year—“will they remember?” In my case, that question is a r

Paradoxically enough, as Washington, D.C., has slid from mass school closures into social distancing and working from home toward increasingly likely shelt