Keeping a 13-year reporting project going takes patience, compassion and lots of voicemails. That’s what I’ve learned in the almost six years I’ve been leading OPB’s Class of 2025. When the project ...

When COVID-19 first shut down schools in March 2020, the Class of 2025 was in 7th grade: the middle of middle school. School buildings shuttered and education shifted online for all students, forever ...

Last week, in a humanities class at a highly selective university in the Northeast, a student played The New York Times’ Spelling Bee game on a phone, according to another student who sat within view.

Many students don’t do the reading and don’t speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech. By Anemona ...

For teachers, every empty desk is a drain: on class time, energy, and ultimately their enjoyment of the job. More than 1 in 4 students nationwide chronically misses school. Now, new research links ...