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Not enough Black students are being exposed to STEM careers
A substantial number of Black students have the aptitude but not the access to in-demand STEM and CTE fields. This exposure gap is even wider for Black girls, a new report warns.
After 20 years of shrinking enrollment, Minneapolis and St. Paul schools face a reckoning
The Minneapolis district has seen its enrollment drop by nearly 20,000 students since 2000-01. In St. Paul in the last five years, enrollment has fallen by more than 5,000 students and the district, which is the second-largest in Minnesota, currently enrolls 60% of the school-aged children who live in the city.
A Missouri high school program goes farm-to-table
At Maysville High School in Maysville, Mo., population 1,100, classes can be a little tough for the squeamish. Course work can involve assigned reading and algebra, but also a serious amount of blood and guts.
Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says
Under the Investing in Innovation program, or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 billion between 2010 and 2016 to education nonprofits and researchers for the purpose of developing and testing new ideas in the classroom. But only 26% of the innovations yielded any positive benefits.
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