2+ hour, 57+ min ago  (1038+ words) View the full episode transcript. Ki Sung:" Welcome to the Mind Shift Podcast where we explore the future of learning and how we raise our kids. I'm Ki Sung. Today we're going to get an update on sex ed in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1239+ words) Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. Editor's note: NPR uses only the first names of minors in this story because it discusses their learning disabilities and placement in special education. BAY POINT, Calif. " The…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (822+ words) The annual release includes the latest data " collected directly from state departments of education " on teacher and support staff salaries, student enrollment and even how much money schools are getting from federal, state and local sources. Here are some of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1632+ words) A few days into the new semester this January, the La Salle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2, 500 students in this district " from the youngest learners up through high…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (583+ words) The first day I returned to work after parental leave, I sat down at my desk, logged into my computer " and silently sobbed right up until my first morning meeting. The guilt of leaving my child, the anxiety of starting…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1326+ words) Kim Freudenberg, a longtime teacher in San Francisco, knew that raising two boys meant a lot of hard conversations. She warned them about all the usual dangers: drugs, alcohol, sex, social media, riding a bike without a helmet. "Never once…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago  (765+ words) For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A's are more common. Failure is rarer than it once was. At the same time, student achievement, as measured by standardized tests like…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago  (420+ words) Last year, Susana Beltr'n-Grimm was visiting Hispanic families for a research project about parents and math, when she started to notice a trend. Parents didn't want to talk about math with the Portland State University professor. Instead, they wanted to…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1498+ words) Stacks of worksheets sit atop desks and tables in Chanea Bond's Fort Worth classroom. Her students all have their own school-issued laptops, but Bond has swapped computers for paper " lots of paper. Each class begins with several minutes of journaling…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (359+ words) For decades, economists could rely on a comforting graph about happiness over a lifetime: It followed a U-shape, like a smile. Young people were carefree and happy. Middle age was rough but joy returned again in old age. This wasn't…...