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Gorodenkoff // Shutterstock Best public middle schools in Alabama Stacker compiled a list of the best public middle schools in Alabama 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. Online schools were not included in the list. PeopleImages.com - Yuri A // Shutterstock #10. Saraland Middle/Nelson Adams -...
1 ways to save on back-to-school shopping Come August, and it’s time to enjoy the last weeks of steamy summer weather, visit the pool and beaches, and—if you’re a student or the parent of one—do your back-to-school shopping. Doing so can be expensive. Families with students in elementary through high school are planning to spend $858.07 on average on electronics, school supplies, clothing and shoes, and that figure jumps to $1,325.85 for families of college students, according to the Nationa...
Survey: 60% of teachers used AI this year and saved up to 6 hours of work a week Nearly two-thirds of teachers utilized artificial intelligence this past school year, and weekly users saved almost six hours of work per week, according to a recently released Gallup survey. But 28% of teachers still oppose AI tools in the classroom. The 74 breaks down the findings from the poll, published by the research firm and the Walton Family Foundation in June, which includes perspectives from 2,232 U.S....
What is contributing to rising college costs? Higher education tuition has doubled in the last 20 years, with some institutions today hitting the $100,000 mark for a four-year degree. These escalating costs have discouraged many prospective students from taking the leap into academia, as well as those experiencing waves of ballooning debt. However, it’s not only students who feel the pinch. As costs rise, higher education institutions and communities feel it, too. The prospect of federal f...
Monkey Business Images // Shutterstock Best private K-12 schools in the Birmingham metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private K-12 schools in the Birmingham metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: top colleges score, college enrollment, culture & diversity grade, parent / student surveys, and student teacher ratio. You can read more about the methodology here. GUNDAM_Ai // Shutterstock #15. Tabernacle Christian School - Location: Garde...
SeventyFour // Shutterstock Best private K-12 schools in the Huntsville metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private K-12 schools in the Huntsville metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: top colleges score, college enrollment, culture & diversity grade, parent / student surveys, and student teacher ratio. You can read more about the methodology here. DenisProduction.com // Shutterstock #13. Huntsville Christian Academy - Location:...
Gorodenkoff // Shutterstock Best private K-12 schools in the Mobile metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private K-12 schools in the Mobile metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: top colleges score, college enrollment, culture & diversity grade, parent / student surveys, and student teacher ratio. You can read more about the methodology here. Anna Jurkovska // Shutterstock #12. Central Christian School - Location: Robertsdale, AL -...
Roman Kosolapov // Shutterstock Best private K-12 schools in the Montgomery metro area Stacker compiled a list of the best private K-12 schools in the Montgomery metro area using data from the Niche. Niche uses five weighted factors for its rankings: top colleges score, college enrollment, culture & diversity grade, parent / student surveys, and student teacher ratio. You can read more about the methodology here. panitanphoto // Shutterstock #15. Lowndes Academy - Location: Lowndesboro, AL -...
July 31, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Business and Keel Point, an independent wealth advisory firm, recently celebrated the start of their new $100,000 collaboration – the Keel Point Professorship in Family Wealth – and welcomed the return to UAH of the professor who will fill that role, Dr. Frank Mullins. UAH and Keel Point representatives described the significance of the partnership during a check presentation ceremony on July 9 at the B...
July 29, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL – The Terminus Spaceflight Research Group at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is set to send a new payload into space, a follow-up to the successful launch and retrieval of a previous Terminus payload in Aug. 2024. This time the student group, a subset of the Space Hardware Club at UAH, aims to loft a CubeSat-like device that will examine the potential of producing electrical energy by harnessing the heating experienced on reentry of the vehicle, as we...
July 23, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have published a paper in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment that demonstrates for the first time that using data gathered on atmospheric particles from Chinese megacities to characterize air quality for U.S. urban centers leads to significant inaccuracies. Dr. Lee Tiszenkel, a UAH alumnus at the UAH Earth System Science Center and Dr. Shanhu Lee, a professor in the Department of Atm...
Many states picked diploma pathways over high school exit exams. Did students benefit? When 18-year-old Edgar Brito thinks about what he’ll do in the future, mechanical engineering is high on the list. The former Washington state’s Toppenish High School student first considered the career after he joined a STEM group in middle school. In a ninth-grade class, he researched the earning potential for a STEM degree (“so much more money”) and the demand for mechanical engineers (“explo...
Most college students are taking online classes, but they’re paying just as much as in-person students Emma Bittner considered getting a master’s degree in public health at a nearby university, but the in-person program cost tens of thousands of dollars more than she had hoped to spend. So she checked out master’s degrees she could pursue remotely, on her laptop, which she was sure would be much cheaper. The price for the same degree, online, was … just as much. Or more. “I’m, like, what makes...
2 out of 5 child care teachers make so little they need public assistance to support their families Caring for children during their first few years is a complex and critical job: A child’s brain develops more in the first five years than at any other point in life. Yet in America, individuals engaged in this crucial role are paid less than animal caretakers and dressing room attendants, The Hechinger Report explains. That’s a major finding of one of two new reports on the dismal treatment of...
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...
