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Benjamin Riley: AI is Another Ed Tech Promise Destined to Fail
For more than a decade, Benjamin Riley has been at the forefront of efforts to get educators to think more deeply about how we learn. As the founder of Deans for Impact in 2015, he enlisted university education school deans to incorporate findings from cognitive science into teacher preparation. Before that, he spent five years […]
Report: Charter Schools Are Failing Students with Disabilities
The authors of new research on how U.S. charter schools are serving children with disabilities say their findings should alarm state education leaders, the agencies that authorize the independent public schools and nonprofit organizations that support them. On the whole, charter schools do not outperform their district-run counterparts when it comes to providing high-quality special […]
NEA Staffers Locked Out After 3-Day Strike Disrupts Convention, Biden Speech
The National Education Association and members of its employees union are back at the bargaining table after a three-day strike that disrupted the NEA’s annual conference and led to the cancellation of a speech by President Joe Biden. But when a contract agreement might be reached is unknown. Also unclear is when staffers will be […]
Kansas State Board of Education to Study Limitations on Cellphones in Classrooms
TOPEKA — The Kansas State Board of Education plans to finalize in August parameters of a 30-member task force that would be formed to develop policy recommendations on non-academic use of cellular telephones by prekindergarten through 12th-grade students while at school. In public and private districts across the United States, officials are limiting or banning […]
Private School Participation Grows In Arkansas Voucher Program’s Second Year
More than two dozen private schools have applied as first-time participants in the second year of Arkansas’ school voucher program. Created through the 2023 LEARNS Act, the Educational Freedom Account program allows state funds to be used for allowable expenses such as private school tuition. It’s being phased in with expanding eligibility criteria each year […]
Opinion: Some Lessons from Britain’s New Push for Education and Workforce Training
Britain’s Labour Party celebrated July Fourth with an overwhelming victory. It will hold at least 411 of the 650 seats in Parliament, taking power after 14 years of Conservative rule with a clear mandate for change. Its Manifesto, or party platform, describes five national missions, including one on education and workforce training named “Break down […]
Critics Warn Massachusetts, Long a Leader in Education, Is Losing Its Edge
Midway through her State of the Commonwealth address in January, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey uttered 11 words that would be greeted with raucous cheers in any state capitol other than the one she was standing in. “By every metric,” she said — skipping past the word “nearly” in the official transcript — “Massachusetts has the […]
Los Angeles Failed Students With Disabilities During COVID. How to Help Them Now
When the pandemic hit, 10-year-old Luis, who has autism, quickly started to regress. Luis’s mother said the boy stopped socializing after his fourth grade class at his Los Angeles Unified school in Southeast L.A. shut down. She asked that the family not be identified in order to protect her son. He began having behavioral issues. […]
Opinion: NYC Parents Sound Off About Plan to Ban Cellphones in Schools
In a recent ABC News interview, New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks confirmed reports he is considering banning cellphones in schools as early as this September. Gov. Kathy Hochul had earlier announced she’d introduce a bill during the January 2025 legislative session to ban smartphones in schools. The bill would permit phones capable of […]
School Vouchers Fight is Nebraska’s Last Petition Drive of 2024
OMAHA — The last petition circulators eyeing Nebraska’s November ballot are still chasing voters, days after last week’s deadline for other groups to submit signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office. Support Our Schools has two additional weeks to turn in signatures because of when the Legislature changed the school choice law that the group’s […]
Does a Proposed $10 Billion Bond Favor Richer California School Districts?
As lawmakers finalize a school facilities bond for the November ballot, some superintendents from low-income and small districts say the proposal leaves them with an all-too-familiar feeling: underfunded and overlooked. “Am I mad? Yeah, I am very mad,” said Gudiel Crosthwaite, superintendent of Lynwood Unified, in a low-income area in Los Angeles County. “California has […]
Opinion: School Interventions Offer Best Shot At Reducing Youth Violence
Black youth show up in emergency rooms with gunshot wounds or other violent injuries at an alarming and disproportionate rate in the United States. Some hospitals have violence interventions that can be effective in keeping these kids safer after they are treated, but in most cases victims are sent back into the world to continue […]
New Report: School Cops Double Student Arrest Rates and Race, Gender Key Factors
Arrests were two times greater in schools with a regular police presence than at similar campuses without one and race, gender and disability were huge factors in which students were detained, according to a new government watchdog report. The Government Accountability Office report found that when “race, gender and disability statuses overlap” — a concept […]
When ‘Universal’ Pre-K Really Isn’t: Barriers To Participating Abound
When Tanya Gillespie-Lambert goes to an event in a local park in Camden, New Jersey, she takes a handful of brochures about free preschool with her. She has no hesitation about approaching strangers — moms with kids especially — to plug the service in the local public school district, where she’s director of community and […]
Arkansas Governor, Ed Secretary Urge Schools to Join Mental Health Pilot Program
The governor and education secretary sent a letter to Arkansas school superintendents Tuesday urging them to join a new pilot program focused on increasing access to mental health care for students and restricting in-school cellphone use. Building off recommendations from superintendents who met with Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Education Secretary Jacob Oliva last month, […]
Payment Backlog Leaves Missouri Child Care Providers On the Brink of Closing
This spring, the state of Missouri owed Kimberly Luong Nichols $5,000 in backlogged payments for children at her Kansas City daycare who were part of a state subsidy program. For four years, she’s operated a licensed daycare inside her home, where she currently serves 10 children. Luong Nichols stopped drawing a salary last summer to […]
Alabama Department of Education Targeted In Cyberattack
Alabama State Schools Superintendent Eric Mackey said Wednesday that the Alabama State Department of Education’s computer systems had been breached last month, and that students and employees of the department may have been affected. Speaking at a press conference in Montgomery, Mackey said the breach took place on June 17. According to Mackey, the department’s […]
Many Americans Think K-12 STEM Ed Lags Behind Peer Nations. They’re Half-Right
About two-thirds of U.S. adults believe K-12 STEM education in this country is average or worse when compared to peer nations, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. A remaining 28% believe it is above average or the best internationally. Turns out the perception is more true of math than science. Senior Pew researcher […]
Illinois Switching to ACT Exams For State Assessments
SPRINGFIELD – When Illinois high school students sit down to take their annual state assessments next year, they will take a different exam than in recent years. The Illinois State Board of Education recently announced that starting next spring, it will use the ACT exam rather than the SAT. Both are standardized tests that measure […]
Federal Program Will Give Eligible Students $120 To Buy Groceries This Summer
Summer can be the hungriest time of the year for students who rely on free or reduced school meals and a new federal program is trying to help those families. Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (S-EBT) — also known as SUN Bucks — is a new grocery benefit program through the U.S. Department of Agriculture that […]
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