Sonya Rinehart, the principal at John A. Holmes High School, walks downtown in Edenton, N.C., on Sept. 5, 2025. In small towns, principals balance school management with ambassadorial acts, forging ties that support students and local growth.
Students wait to board Metro, Cincinnati’s public bus system, to ride to their second day of school on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Cincinnati, Ohio. There are many factors school districts must consider before switching to public transit.
Frontier Middle School teachers meet at Alchemy restaurant in Hamburg, N.Y., in the spring of 2024 for a trivia game about school policies. It's part of a mentoring and engagement pilot program for untenured teachers in their 2nd to 4th years teaching at the school. The program is expanding districtwide this school year.
U.S. first lady Melania Trump participates in the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. The first lady is calling for students and educators to use AI to help solve community problems.
Houston's appointed school board takes a vote during a meeting on Sept. 7, 2023 in the district's central office. A number of studies from recent years have answered questions about school boards' makeup, how competitive board elections are, whether conflict is on the rise, and more.
Jennifer Watkins, who runs a STEM program for the Fouke school district in rural Arkansas, shared how she uses inexpensive ed-tech tools to help students understand robotics at the ISTE+ASCD annual technology and learning conference this summer.
First grade students listen as their teacher Megan Goes helps them craft alternate endings for stories they wrote together at Moorsbridge Elementary School in Portage, Mich., on Nov. 29, 2023. In reading classrooms nationwide, teachers tend to mix core and supplemental materials—whether out of necessity or by design.
A student works a problem in a 2nd grade math class at Place Bridge Academy, May 20, 2025, in Denver. The math instructional strategies that teachers employ can vary depending on whether they trained as general or special educators—a divide researchers say could hurt struggling students.
Students interact with Waffles the pig at Alaqua Animal Refuge in Freeport, Fla., on Aug. 23, 2025. The animal sanctuary teaches students to empathize with animals—which, in turn, has helped many children draw connections to their own feelings.
