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To tackle chronic absenteeism, this high school lets students lead It was the last Friday before winter break at H.D. Woodson High School in the eastern corner of Washington, D.C. — historically one of the toughest days of the year for attendance. School team leads Rachel Curry-Neal and Ashlee Judon were eager to see how the day would play out. Their colleagues and they had an ambitious goal: improve overall in-seat attendance rates by at least two percentage points. Like schools across the c...
Eco-anxiety in little kids? These early childhood teachers are on the case. A preschooler in Raegan Haines' class at Palmer Elementary in Denver prepares to plant wildflowers in a pot she decorated. Stavros, a 4-year-old at Denver’s Palmer Elementary School, stood on a low blue chair scooping soil into a white pot he’d decorated with his school picture and stickers of a donut, a camera, and the word “lucky.” Next, he shook a packet of seeds for wildflowers native to Colorado into the pot and...
July 9, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL – The Electric Propulsion Club at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) won first place at the 2025 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Conference Region II Student Conference in Raleigh, N.C. The award recognizes the student club's development of a patent pending of new type of gridded ion thruster. An ion thruster is a form of electric propulsion that creates a cloud of positive ions which is then accelerated using e...
SeventyFour // Shutterstock Best public middle schools in the Birmingham metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best public middle schools in the Birmingham metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: academics grade, teachers grade, district overall grade, culture & diversity grade, and parent / student surveys. You can read more about the methodology here. GUNDAM_Ai // Shutterstock #10. Oak Mt. Middle School - School grades: 6-8 - Location:...
Inside Creative House // Shutterstock Best public middle schools in the Montgomery metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best public middle schools in the Montgomery metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: academics grade, teachers grade, district overall grade, culture & diversity grade, and parent / student surveys. You can read more about the methodology here. Gorodenkoff // Shutterstock #10. Southside Middle School - School grades: 5-8 -...
PeopleImages.com - Yuri A // Shutterstock Best public middle schools in the Huntsville metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best public middle schools in the Huntsville metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: academics grade, teachers grade, district overall grade, culture & diversity grade, and parent / student surveys. You can read more about the methodology here. SeventyFour // Shutterstock #10. Challenger Middle School - School grades: 6-...
Rido // Shutterstock Best public middle schools in the Mobile metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best public middle schools in the Mobile metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: academics grade, teachers grade, district overall grade, culture & diversity grade, and parent / student surveys. You can read more about the methodology here. GUNDAM_Ai // Shutterstock #10. Causey Middle School - School grades: 6-8 - Location: Mobile County...
June 9, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to develop a more accurate map of the outer gas disk of the Milky Way galaxy. The findings are being presented at the 246th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Anchorage, Alaska, on June 8-12, in conjunction with Michigan State University (MSU). The study e...
Teen tech trends and school cellphone bans In early 2025, two of the largest school systems in the country took bold steps to keep students off their phones. The Los Angeles Unified School District in California began a cellphone ban during school hours, citing mental health and academic concerns. A few months later, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a plan for a similar “bell-to-bell” smartphone ban in all public schools. These moves reflect growing anxiety about teens spending too muc...
May 30, 2025 -HUNTSVILLE, AL – The Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) recently hosted the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) from the Dominican Republic (DR) during NASA's 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC). The two student squads had bonded during a UAH team visit to the DR in 2024, an outreach opportunity that helped power INTEC Team Apolo 27 to a second-place finish in this year's human-powered competition, a...
UAH researchers use adhesive tape to generate electricity for low-cost, self-powered wearable biosensors and energy harvesting May 16, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – A research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has published a new paper in American Chemical Society Omega that demonstrates inexpensive store-bought tape can be used to craft a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) capable of harvesting electrical energy from various sources, including human movement and environmental c...
May 19, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – Dr. Nathan Spulak, an assistant professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded a $299,000 National Science Foundation EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement fellowship to enhance safety for earth, air and space vehicles and habitation structures by examining the characteristics of composite materials. The researcher is the principal investigator on the project, a collaboration between UAH and the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cle...
May 23, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – On April 21, at 4:15 A.M. EDT, samples from the UAH Biology Sysoeva Lab were launched into orbit as part of NASA's SpaceX CRS-32 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission will carry out the Genetic Exchange in Microgravity for Biofilm Bioremediation, or GEM-B2 experiment. A collaborative project between The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Texas State University and Bioserve at t...
sirtravelalot // Shutterstock Best private high schools in the Mobile metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private high schools in the Mobile metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses seven weighted factors for its rankings. A majority of the score is based on academics, but other factors include culture and diversity; sports; clubs and activities; resources; and surveys of parents, teachers, and students. Monkey Business Images // Shutterstock #22. Safe Haven Christian Academy...
LightField Studios // Shutterstock Best private high schools in the Montgomery metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private high schools in the Montgomery metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses seven weighted factors for its rankings. A majority of the score is based on academics, but other factors include culture and diversity; sports; clubs and activities; resources; and surveys of parents, teachers, and students. Monkey Business Images // Shutterstock #21. FRUITFUL GROUND...
Monkey Business Images // Shutterstock Best private high schools in the Huntsville metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private high schools in the Huntsville metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses seven weighted factors for its rankings. A majority of the score is based on academics, but other factors include culture and diversity; sports; clubs and activities; resources; and surveys of parents, teachers, and students. Tyler Olson // Shutterstock #19. Union Chapel Christian...
Ground Picture // Shutterstock Best private high schools in the Birmingham metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private high schools in the Birmingham metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses seven weighted factors for its rankings. A majority of the score is based on academics, but other factors include culture and diversity; sports; clubs and activities; resources; and surveys of parents, teachers, and students. LStockStudio // Shutterstock #25. Riverside Christian Academy -...
When the Marshall Fire swept through the grassy plains and foothills outside Boulder, Colorado, in late December 2021, it burned down more than 1,000 homes—and left many young people shaken. "It can just be pure anxiety—you're literally watching a fire march its way across, and it's really, really close," said David Thesenga, an 8th grade science teacher. Some of his students at Alexander Dawson School in the small town of Lafayette lost their homes to the fire. As more students come to sch...
Private sports coaching has long been a behind-the-scenes part of youth athletics, but in recent years, it's become a booming micro-economy—fueled not by schools or clubs, but by everyday families looking for something different. The demand for high-quality private coaching is only growing stronger, Athletes Untapped says. A combination of youth sports specialization, college recruiting, and a cultural push for individualized development has created the perfect opportunity for private c...
April 23, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – It's often said that one of the hardest things to accomplish in team competitions is a "three-peat" – winning three championships in a row. After placing first in 2023 and 2024 in NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC), The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) was set to do just that this year, before a catastrophic mechanical setback on the first day of the two-day competition ended the dream of a third consecutive victory. However, the UAH tea...
KaTiedra Argro has been on a mission: restore her school's reputation as a premier Philadelphia educational institution where young women hone their skills, excel as leaders, and find their voices. The principal of the Philadelphia High School for Girls spent last fall visiting 48 elementary and middle schools to recruit students. She went all over the city, from Northeast to Southwest, to sell kids on an historic all-girls school that was founded 13 years before the Civil War. A member of Girls...
President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and teachers say mass federal layoffs mean that too few people are left to carry out a complicated law intended to protect some of the nation's most vulnerable students' right to an education. The administration laid off nearly half the Education Department's staff, The Hechinge...
COVID had already killed thousands of people in other countries and was spreading in the United States when a top federal health official said schools should prepare to offer "internet-based teleschooling" in case they had to close for a period of time. "We are asking the American public to work with us to prepare for the expectation that this could be bad," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, then a leader in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's pandemic response, told reporters on a Feb. 25, 202...
This month marks the five-year anniversary of the World Health Organization's declaration that COVID-19 was a pandemic. That announcement shuttered school buildings and launched millions of students into remote learning. While the immediate health crisis is over, the long-term impact on students is not, The 74 reports. The latest Nation's Report Card underscores that academic recovery remains elusive, with many students needing months of additional instructional time to close the pandemic...
For her first few years in New York City's public school system, Kai Kraft thought she was "the only Asian kid in the Bronx." Through elementary and middle school, she had teachers from diverse backgrounds — but none who identified as Asian American or Pacific Islander. And as a result, Kraft, who is Filipino American, often didn't feel comfortable confiding in her teachers when she experienced discrimination from her peers. "I let a lot of casual racism slide, even until middle school, because...
