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Two girls read a book together during a lesson at Carter Traditional Elementary School on January 24, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky.

K-12 Education Advancing early literacy with a 1st-grade safety net

Jen Krajewski, Cynthia Lake, Amanda Neitzel

July 21, 2026

Students at computers with screens that include a representation of a retinal scanner with pixelation and binary data overlays and a brightly coloured datawave heatmap at the top.

Artificial Intelligence AI is rapidly changing education and research needs to keep up

Stacey Alicea, Meghan McCormick

July 21, 2026

A man leaves the federal courthouse where a group of Democratic state attorneys are asking a federal judge to block U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and halt it from laying off nearly half of its staff, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., April 25, 2025. REUTERS/Amanda Sabga

Education Tracking lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s K-12 education agenda

Rachel M. Perera, Thalia González, Aidan Tomlinson

July 6, 2026

Professor writing mathematical formula and equation to blackboard in school classroom.

Higher Education New Kentucky research complicates the corequisite course consensus in higher education

Zeyu Xu, Ben Backes

June 23, 2026

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