The U.S. Department of Education’s national report card released this week showed an increase in Iowa’s reading scores, but a drop in math. Iowa Department of Education director McKenzie Snow says the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP or nape) covers fourth and eighth graders.

We climate science experts at the University of Iowa strongly advise Iowa’s Department of Education to maintain its existing educational standards on climate change. Climate change and human influence on the climate system are scientific facts.

A representative of the Iowa Board of Regents told lawmakers Wednesday that the board is ready and willing to conduct the review of academic programs that would be required under a new bill. Labeled in the bill as the “Workforce First Act,

Iowa students using taxpayer-funded education savings accounts to pay for their private education grew to 27,866 participants, according to the Iowa Department of Education. That's up more than 60% from the roughly 17,000 students who used the funds for ...

The Iowa Department of Education credits the state’s strength in reading to proven practices grounded in an evidence-based approach.

A review team that Iowa formed last fall to revise its science education standards and draft recommended changes -- which some team members said contained changes they hadn’t signed off on -- has been discharged so a second team now can review public feedback and recommend changes based on the input.

Gov. Kim Reynolds sent a notice to each of Iowa's state universities Thursday reminding them to comply with the state's prohibition of diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs.

Iowa lawmakers advanced a flurry of bills aimed at reforming the state’s three public universities, controlled by the state Board of Regents, during a slate of hearings on Tuesday. Iowa lawmakers in the House and Senate advanced bills that would create a school of intellectual freedom at the University of Iowa,

Iowa lawmakers advanced another spate of bills aiming to reform higher education in state regent universities on Wednesday. Among the bills considered and advanced by Iowa House Republicans Wednesday,

Iowa’s current draft of its K-12 science standards, which include changing the word “evolution” to “biological change over time,” has drawn ire from some parents, educators, students and residents across the state who say the wording changes water down scientific concepts.

Public school students tested across the nation are still not scoring as high in reading as pre-pandemic levels, according to The Nation's Report Card

Some Iowans are raising concern about new proposed state science standards. In the proposal, any mention of "climate change" was changed to the phrase "climate trends". Although the standards would still include the concept of biological change over time,