FatCamera/E+/Getty Images It may be summer, but schools are already looking to the 2025-2026 academic year… and it’s tough out there. No one ever said teaching was easy (and if someone does they’re wildly uninformed), but ever since the pandemic, it seems this vital profession has become even more challenging. From underfunded schools to increasing...
FatCamera/E+/Getty Images In a six to three ruling, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Maryland parents saying they should have the option to opt their children out of hearing LGBTQ+ themed children books for religious reasons. Dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the move will spell “chaos for this nation’s public schools.” Mahmoud...
FG Trade/E+/Getty Images The heat dome that covered the eastern U.S. has lifted, and while that means many of us are breathing a (mercifully cooler and less humid) sigh of relief, the memory of how impossible it felt to function under such conditions is still fresh. I think my son put it best when he...
TikTok Across the country, schoolchildren are fully in “end of year” mode. They’re coming home from school wet from field day water games with backpacks stuffed to the gills with papers, books, and art projects that have been accumulating in their desks for nine months. And it’s basically understood that after that last big test...