Congress nixed funding for PBS's "Ready to Learn" children's educational program—which provides competitive grants for local ...

Robert Hutchins, the great University of Chicago sage of education, remarked nearly 60 years ago that television, “one of the greatest technical marvels in history,” had been so degraded that “it is ...

As parents and caregivers throughout the region juggle work and/or working from home, kids stuck in the house, and social distancing, WHYY has expanded its TV and online educational programming as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) prepares to shut its doors for two weeks starting Monday, a unique partnership ...

AMES, Iowa – Most parents carefully select what television programs and movies their children can watch. But a study in the latest Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology found that even ...

The Walt Disney Company is part of a group of entertainment companies challenging federal requirements on the amount of educational programming broadcasters must air each week. With the versatility of ...

While gifted and talented education programs can be found in most public schools in the country, there is no federal standard for how they are carried out—or how students are selected for them. For ...

Over the past decade, the number of students with disabilities has been increasing, and there’s also a special education teacher shortage. That has made individualized education programs, which ...