Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also ...

Programs that direct public money toward private schools of a family’s choosing or family accounts that can cover any education expenses outside the public school system are proliferating. Parents say ...

The Summit School District is implementing a new literacy curriculum in all elementary schools this year in hopes of improving the district’s English language arts performance. Liz Strempke, director ...

That joyfulness can extend even to the more mundane lessons, like learning new vocabulary, which historically has involved ...

Opposition among parents and teachers is brewing over the introduction of a pilot program that would bring year-round classes to two Alachua County schools. The two schools selected to begin the ...

The Department of Agriculture has cut over $1 billion in funding aimed at helping schools and food banks purchase from local farmers, according to a news report and a school nutrition nonprofit. The ...