Education

For the first time since the pandemic, Texas schools will again be rated based on standardized tests. But for one year only, schools that receive a D or F will get a “not rated” label.

As communities and school districts push for book bans, some Texas librarians are nearing their breaking point.

A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."

Abbott said he supports giving parents the option to attend private school “with state funding following the student.” Such measures have failed in the Legislature in the past.

The governor says the court's ruling in 1982 has imposed an unfair burden on Texas.

By wide margins, parents across the political spectrum are satisfied with how their children's schools teach about race, gender and history. That's according to a new national poll by NPR and Ipsos.

As Muslim students across the country began fasting for Ramadan, colleges have stepped up efforts to make them feel more included on campus.

The policy sidelines educators, often for two school years, at a time when districts are already struggling to keep teachers in the classrooms.

Thomas Mayfield helped raise test scores and engagement in the classroom, and now he's helping teachers in Fort Worth learn what he did.

The Florida law prohibits teachers from teaching sexual orientation or gender identity to kids below the fourth grade.