2022-06-17 15:00
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Philadelphia schools are focusing career-tech training on preparing students to move from high school to apprenticeships and skilled jobs, reports Chalkbeat’s Dale Mezza… Read More
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2022-06-17 13:45
Tennessee’s technical colleges focus on job skills, such as mechatronics.
We’ve reached peak college, writes urbanist Joel Kotkin in Newsweek. The jobs of the future are in the s… Read More
2022-06-16 15:45
If schools want more black male teachers, principals will have to let them be teachers — not security guards — writes Durrell Burns.
Durrell Burns
When he started teaching, he wa… Read More
2022-06-16 14:00
While there’s little evidence of a “Big Quit” in education there may be a Significant Shift in how teachers see their options, writes Linda Jacobson on The 74.
Prenda micro… Read More
2022-06-15 15:45
Families want and need new charter schools, write a bipartisan group of mayors in an open letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. Proposed changes in federal funding would “privi… Read More
2022-06-15 14:00
Indianapolis charter students are dramatically outperforming similar students in district-run schools, concludes a new study by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education O… Read More
2022-06-14 15:44
Drag Queen Story Hour was starting at a Bay Area library when a group of men entered shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs, reports Iran Dahir on BuzzFeed News.
Panda Dulce, a social wor… Read More
2022-06-14 14:00
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A Texas legislator wants to ban children from seeing drag queens in response to a Dallas bar’s ““family-friendly” Drag the Kids to Pride” event. That’s… Read More
2022-06-13 18:21
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In Sweden, which kept schools open throughout the pandemic, first- through third-graders made normal progress in reading, concludes a newly published study. T… Read More
2022-06-13 14:00
Students learned a lot less in remote classes, test scores show. “The achievement loss is far greater than most educators and parents seem to realize,” wrote Harvard researcher T… Read More
2022-06-12 14:30
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Educators will be teaching in the metaverse very soon, ready or not, write Brookings researchers in a policy brief.
The metaverse is “a 3D model of the i… Read More
2022-06-11 14:30
Moshe K. Levy considers himself “pro-human” rather than “anti-racist,” he writes on FAIR’s site.
So he’s not a fan of Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped (For… Read More
2022-06-10 20:25
“Active shooter drills” terrify students, but do they make them any safer? Photo: Education Week
When schools do fire drills, they don’t set off smoke bombs.
The fad for &l&hell…Read More
2022-06-10 13:45
In response to the shooting of 19 children and two adults, Uvalde, Texas school officials want to hire more police officers, writs Robby Soave in Reason.
Nineteen police officers were at the… Read More
2022-06-09 16:15
Working as a lifeguard was a dangerous job in “Stranger Things.”
A red-hot summer job market awaits teenagers, reports Paul Wiseman and Mae Anderson for AP. Employers are raising… Read More
2022-06-09 14:00
Working part-time during the school year is good for teenagers, as long as they limit their work hours, concludes a newly published study.
Photo: Amina Filkins/Pexels
Students with part-time… Read More
2022-06-08 17:44
Matt Drange’s high school journalism teacher was a cut-up who always had time to hang out with students. Especially teenage girls from troubled families. His beloved teacher repeatedly… Read More
2022-06-07 15:30
U.S. high school students and their teachers agree that people should be allowed to express unpopular opinions, according to the Knight Foundation’s Future of the First Amendment surve… Read More
2022-06-07 14:00
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is renaming itself the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (still FIRE) as it moves beyond college campuses to defend free spee… Read More
2022-06-06 16:30
California students will need an ethnic studies class to get a diploma by 2029-30, but apparently the University of California won’t try to dictate the curriculum, reports John Fenster… Read More
2022-06-06 15:45
Northern Arizona University will require all students to take four Diversity Perspectives courses in Global Diversity, U.S. Ethnic Diversity, Indigenous Peoples, and Intersectional Identiti… Read More
2022-06-05 14:30
LGBT is becoming a social and political identity rather than a sexual identity for many young people, writes Eric Kaufmann in a Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology analysis.
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2022-06-04 17:17
While some states restrict sex education in the early grades, elsewhere teachers are “embracing” new resources and lessons about gender identity, reports Laura Meckler in the Was… Read More
2022-06-03 13:45
School cafeterias are not segregated by gender or sexuality in any state in the union. School sports teams, restrooms and locker rooms, maybe, but the lunch line? No. Anyone who qualifies fo… Read More
2022-06-02 14:00
A chemistry teacher live-streams into a conventional classroom. Photo: Elevate K-12
Virtual learning didn’t work well during the pandemic. Without in-person connections, many students… Read More
2022-06-01 18:18
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California school officials would be required to report any “perceived threat” of a mass shooting to law enforcement under a bill advancing in the state Legislatur… Read More
2022-06-01 14:00
Here's any idea that will infuriate everyone but might do some good:
Let's make 21 the official age of adulthood in America.
No buying guns 'til 21. No voting 'til 21. No being charged as… Read More
2022-05-31 18:45
Third graders who are a year behind in reading are supposed to repeat the grade under Michigan’s “read by grade three” law, but few are held back, reports Tracie Mauriello… Read More
2022-05-31 14:00
Education Week reports that a growing number of school districts are asking would-be teachers: “What have you done personally or professionally to be more antiracist?”
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2022-05-30 18:15
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will reme… Read More
2022-05-30 15:45
Ukrainian refugees are getting a warmer welcome than Afghans, according to a group of refugee advocates and Democratic senators, writes Ilya Somin in Reason.
Ukrainian refugees crossing into… Read More
2022-05-30 14:00
Omar, who had little schooling in rural Afghanistan, is learning English at Chicago’s Sullivan High School. Photo: Taylor Glascock/WBEZ
My mother’s old high school in Chicago (cl… Read More
2022-05-29 16:31
The U.S. murder rate spiked in 2020 and 2021, reports German Lopez in the New York Times.
Cleaning up vacant lots and creating gardens lowered the crime rate in Philadelphia neighborhoods.
T… Read More
2022-05-29 14:45
Terrifying parents and children is not useful: School massacres are “exceptionally rare” events, writes John Tierney in City Journal. They “occurred more often in the 1990s… Read More
2022-05-28 14:50
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In the 1960s, campus protesters rejected adult authority, writes William Deresiewicz. Now the “young progressive elite” want the grownups to protect… Read More
2022-05-27 20:37
School shooters don’t just “snap,” journalist Mark Follman, author of Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America, tells Greg Toppo on The 74.
Scho… Read More
2022-05-27 13:45
At IDEA McAllen College Prep, a charter school near the Mexican border, 77 percent of students come from low-income families and nearly all are Mexican-American.
IDEA McAllen ranks first in… Read More
2022-05-26 15:45
We are failing our young men, argues podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey.
That’s the one commonality in the vast majority of mass shootings. It’s not race or ideology. They’re yo… Read More
2022-05-26 14:00
The shooter in the Uvalde, Texas school massacre was “a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered from a fraught home life and lashed out violentl… Read More
2022-05-25 16:45
The San Francisco school board’s vote to abolish merit-based admissions at Lowell High School amidst claims merit is “racist” angered many parents and Lowell alumni.
Bluer… Read More
2022-05-25 14:00
Remote students’ learning losses are worse than educators are willing to acknowledge, writes Thomas Kane, faculty director of Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, in T… Read More
2022-05-24 16:14
Are elementary teachers well prepared to teach math?
Many elementary teachers aren’t confident about their math skills, and transmit their anxiety to their students, writes… Read More
2022-05-24 15:15
California’s proposed new math framework offers a “choose-your-own-adventure approach” that is “fundamentally flawed,” argue Jennifer Chayes and Tsu-Jae King Li… Read More
2022-05-24 14:00
We know a lot about how to teach students who have trouble learning math, writes researcher Tom Loveless. Why not use that?
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California’s new math frame… Read More
2022-05-23 16:01
Who are these people? Photo: Serrano1004/Pixabay
Don’t say “parent,” advises the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) in a new “gender-inclusive” guide… Read More
2022-05-23 14:00
Teachers were trained to teach students how to guess words they couldn’t read.
The reading wars are over, writes Dana Goldstein in the New York Times. Lucy Calkins, the influential lea… Read More
2022-05-22 18:30
Princeton’s president wants to fire a tenured classics professor, but claims it’s not because he criticized “anti-racist” proposals, reports Anemona Hartocollis in th… Read More
2022-05-22 14:45
Professors who want tenure or promotion at the University of Illinois will have to submit a statement declaring how they support diversity, equity, inclusion and access, reports Colleen… Read More
2022-05-21 14:45
It takes young people a lot longer than their elders to be self-supporting, concludes two new reports from Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
Most millennials did not… Read More
2022-05-20 13:45
When schools closed and classes went online, expectations fell. Some students had trouble accessing classes or younger siblings to tend or jobs essential for paying the family’s rent… Read More
2022-05-19 16:15
Georgia is making “financial literacy” a graduation requirement, reports Carmen Reinecke on CNBC. It’s the 13th state to mandate personal finance education. “I… Read More
2022-05-19 14:00
After two pandemic years, the college-going gender gap is widening, reports YouthTruth’s Class of 2022 survey.
Compared to the class of 2019, the percentage of males with college aspi… Read More
2022-05-18 15:30
The Biden administration has abandoned the Obama legacy on charter schools and chosen teachers’ unions over students, writes Jonathan Chait in New York magazine.
Once again, all gradua… Read More
2022-05-18 14:00
Nearly 1.3 million students left district-run public schools in the last two years, estimates the Return to Learn tracker.
Districts’ pandemic policies were a major factor, says Nat Ma… Read More
2022-05-17 17:15
High school teachers in Casa Grande, Arizona are “revisiting” failing grades to enable more students to graduate Read More
2022-05-17 16:15
Although students “learned considerably less” during the pandemic, high school graduation rates rose in 2020 and returned to the previous level in 2021, write Douglas N. Har… Read More
2022-05-17 14:00
High school grade inflation accelerated during the pandemic, according to ACT.
“The findings echo a recent federal study that also showed signs of grade inflation,” writes Sarah… Read More
2022-05-16 15:30
College students are not OK, writes Jonathan Malesic, who teaches first-year writing at Southern Methodist University, in a New York Times commentary.
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Remote… Read More
2022-05-16 14:00
Remote learning widened achievement gaps in states and districts that kept schools closed the longest, concludes a working paper by Harvard researchers.
Students in high-poverty schools paid… Read More
2022-05-15 16:48
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2022-05-15 14:45
Overprotected by their parents, Gen Snowflake demands that college “make them comfortable,” argued Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment specialist, and Jonathan Haidt, a social psyc… Read More
2022-05-14 14:20
Lenore Skenazy was walking by an elementary school in Queens, when she saw kids playing hopscotch, just as she used to do, and paused to watch.
The teacher or teacher’s aide looked ov… Read More
2022-05-13 13:45
Teaching social and emotional skills — done properly — is an essential part of teaching, argues Fordham intern Nathaniel Grossman. It’s not a frill that takes time from rea… Read More
2022-05-12 14:00
I took computer science in high school to meet boys. And I did. Nerdy boys. It was the era of paper-tape readers and punch cards. I learned basic programming in Basic and tried to learn Fort… Read More
2022-05-11 14:00
Shanthi Gonzales
“Schools aren’t meeting students’ needs” in Oakland, California, writes Shanthi Gonzales, who’s resigning from the school board after more than… Read More
2022-05-10 16:49
Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University profesor, in Inside Higher Ed.
What the new Republican-backed… Read More
2022-05-10 14:00
When are children ready to learn about slavery, the wars against indigenous Americans or the Holocaust?
Parents and teachers want lessons to be “age appropriate,” but disagree on… Read More
2022-05-09 14:00
Americans agree that schools should teach about historic racism and slavery, but divided on present-day racism, writes Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat. He analyzed 20 polls.
Should racism be taught… Read More
2022-05-08 14:22
I’m on vacation with my daughter — her treat — for Mother’s Day and my recent round-number birthday, so I’ll skip the blogging today. Have a lovely day.
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2022-05-07 16:15
A “Support Ukraine” rally in Indianapolis on April 9.
Children still come for after-school classes in math, science and chess, but the “Russian School of Indiana” has… Read More
2022-05-07 14:45
California schools have begun to welcome Ukrainian refugee children, reports Carolyn Jones on EdSource. So far, it’s only a few students, but there are large Ukrainian communities in S… Read More
2022-05-06 14:51
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Auguste Meyrat is sending his children to “screen-free” schools, he writes in The Federalist.
As a teacher, he’s seen the damage inflicted by ob… Read More
2022-05-06 13:45
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Remote learning was an academic disaster, writes David Leonhardt. And it may have been unnecessary.
In March 2020, all states closed schools and switched to remote i… Read More
2022-05-05 14:00
While social-emotional learning sounds “positive and uncontroversial” in theory, “in practice, SEL serves as a delivery mechanism for radical pedagogies such as critical ra… Read More
2022-05-04 15:30
Students are learning math, engineering and problem solving through a curriculum designed by the nonprofit Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Foundation, reports Kevin Bushweller… Read More
2022-05-04 14:00
Credit: The World of Work
American and British children dream of careers as vloggers or YouTubers, concludes a 2019 LEGO survey of children between eight and 12.
Teacher came second, then pr… Read More
2022-05-03 15:30
Teaching special-needs students is challenging and stressful.
Special education teachers are in short supply across the country, and have been for as long as I can remember. Hawaii has a rad… Read More
2022-05-03 14:00
Teachers said a special-ed co-teacher would be worth as much as a 20 percent raise.
What do teachers want? It’s not just higher pay, writes Hannah Putnam on the NCTQ blog. Teachers wan… Read More
2022-05-02 15:30
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In A day in the life of school social workers, Hechinger’s Peggy Barmore looks at how Schenectady (New York) schools diverts troubled students from the classroom and tri… Read More
2022-05-02 14:00
Classroom violence is driving teachers to quit in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district, reports Christine Pitawanich for KGW-TV.
Despite experience as a special-education aide… Read More
2022-05-01 14:30
President Biden plans to cancel student loans through executive action, probably $10,000 per debtor. Left-wing Democrats are demanding $50,000 in loan forgiveness.
There’s no campaign… Read More
2022-04-30 14:45
Stress is the most common reason that a third of four-year college students considering dropping out for at least a semester this school year, according to a Lumina-Gallup poll. Forty-one pe… Read More
2022-04-29 14:00
If books have disappeared from school libraries, young people can find digital versions of banned and challenged books via the Brooklyn Public Library’s Books UnBanned project, reports… Read More
2022-04-28 15:30
California legislators are about to eliminate nearly all remedial classes at community colleges, despite the fact that most students are “underprepared” when they start.
Some stu… Read More
2022-04-28 14:00
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Letter grades may be on the way out for some University of California departments and colleges, reports Michael Burke on EdSource.
UC Berkeley’s College o… Read More
2022-04-27 15:45
Reading Recovery, a one-on-one tutoring program, helps first graders catch up with their classmates, but by third or fourth grade they’re doing worse than similar students who weren&rs&hell…Read More
2022-04-27 14:00
After years of “lackluster” reading scores, working-class Wenatchee (WA) switched to “structured literacy” in 2019 and started to make progress, reports Dahlia Bazza… Read More
2022-04-26 15:30
Teaching first-year college students to write standard English is not racist, argues Erec Smith, an associate professor of rhetoric at York College and founder of Free Black Thought. It&rsqu&hell…Read More
2022-04-26 14:00
It’s time to “decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education,” declares the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)… Read More
2022-04-25 15:30
— Summer Reading Survey
School librarians want to drop To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn from summer reading lists, according to a survey by School Library J… Read More
2022-04-25 14:00
“Math is about getting the right answer,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, after his state education department rejected dozens of math textbooks “It’s not about how y… Read More
2022-04-24 14:45
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Technology has undermined teaching and destroyed students’ attention spans, writes Shane Trotter on Quillette.
His high school handed out iPads and req… Read More
2022-04-23 17:00
Teenage basketball players can go pro and make $100,000 a year and up, reports Tom Huddleston Jr. for CNBC.
Young athletes at Overtime Elite‘s Atlanta academy take high school cla… Read More
2022-04-23 14:43
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Sofia Velasquez, 15, enjoys playing soccer for her Chicago high school, but games keep getting canceled because rival teams can’t field enough playe… Read More
2022-04-22 15:00
Chronic absenteeism — students missing at least 10 percent of the school year — is way up, writes Naaz Modan on K-12 Dive.
Forty-six percent of students in Los Angeles Unified Sc… Read More
2022-04-22 13:45
Schools have reopened, but most homeschooled students haven’t returned to class, reports Carolyn Thompson for Associated Press. “Homeschooling numbers this year dipped from last… Read More
2022-04-21 15:45
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Technology could make free college a reality, says Sal Khan, founder of the online (and free) Khan Academy, in an Education Week interview with Benjamin Herold.
He’s piloting an onli… Read More
2022-04-21 14:00
Completing a four-year degree takes more than four years for most graduates, but there’s a new push to design three-year bachelor’s degrees, writes Hechinger’s Jon Marcus… Read More
2022-04-20 23:24
Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but in colleges, writes Adam Ellwanger on the Martin Center bl… Read More
2022-04-20 15:45
High school rigor is often a facade, writes Natalie Wexler on Forbes. It’s a “Potemkin village.”
High school graduates in the class of 2019 took more “advanced”… Read More
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