Parents Want Tech Banned, but Teachers Say It's Unrealistic
A suburban district is debating whether to curb or ban classroom devices as a growing number of parents push back aga...
Education Policy
On this tag page you’ll find four Education Policy articles that examine how spending and school funding affect family budgets. Read concise takeaways to improve your money strategy.
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High School Students Taking Debt for Low-Pay Jobs: Alarm
A worrying trend shows high school students taking on large loans to pursue trades that pay modest starting wages. Th...
American Schools Have Been Shortchanging Recess, Experts Warn
A new pediatric guidance warns that american schools have been quietly cutting recess in pursuit of test scores, risk...
Education Policy Debates Surge After Melania Robot Reveal
A robot rollout tied to Melania Trump ignites a national debate over funding and the future of public schools. The te...
Clark Howard Right: $200K Strategy to Cut College Tuition Costs
Families earning around $200,000 are weighing whether shifting retirement contributions can unlock substantial colleg...
What Told ‘AI Slop’: A Century of Ghostwriting Debates
A 2023 Vanderbilt incident sparked a modern AI writing debate, echoing a long history of ghostwriting and the ethics ...
Scott Bessent’s Treasury Department Takes on Defaulted Loans
The Treasury Department will assume management of about $180 billion in defaulted federal student loans, a decisive s...
Z’s Straight‑A Boom Quietly Shrinks Gen Z Paychecks
A fresh study links Gen Z’s straight‑A trend to lower long‑term earnings, signaling hidden costs behind perfect repor...
Host Mike Rowe Slams Trades as Real-World Prize, Not a Backup
host mike rowe slams the college-first script as earnings in the trades rise, with data center electricians pulling i...
America’s Math Scores Fall as Screens Replacing Textbooks
A shift from textbooks to screens and AI in classrooms coincides with a decline in america’s math scores. Experts war...
I Don’t Know We’re Ready: Governors Demand Workforce Reform Now
In Washington, governors from both parties pressed for a sweeping review of the nation’s workforce policy amid AI-dri...
American Schools Weren't Broken, Tech Era Woes Rise
Fresh NAEP data in early 2026 shows a broad but nuanced slide in reading and math for 4th and 8th graders, renewing d...