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Opinion: Forget Hot-Button Ed Issues — Voters Want Safe Schools and Kids Who Can Read
Excited graduates wearing caps and gowns walk across the stage. After exhorting speeches, auditoriums and bleachers erupt in tears, hugs and laughter as one milestone is passed and another era begins. As the nation’s school districts celebrate this transition in the lives of the Class of 2024, they are also preparing for the transition from […]
The Key Investors Who Once Touted L.A. Schools’ Failed $6M AI Chatbot Go Silent
Earlier this summer, leaders at the ed tech company AllHere, contracted by Los Angeles schools to build a heavily hyped $6 million AI chatbot, offered assurances to one of its investors. At the time, principals with Boston Impact Initiative were finalizing the firm’s annual impact assessment of AllHere, a 2016 startup that offered a tech-driven […]
Alaska Apprenticeship Program Approval Brings Millions to Teacher Pipeline
When the only preschool teacher left Harold Kaveolook School in Kaktovik, a village of around 250 people on the northern coast of Alaska, Chelsea Brower was in charge. It was January and she had been the preschool aide for about a year-and-a-half. “Being with the kids and trying to be their teacher is what really […]
Opinion: Lessons for Closing Schools: Face the Challenge, Prioritize Students, Be Honest
Prompted by declining enrollment and the impending loss of federal pandemic relief funding, school districts nationwide are wrestling with whether to close schools — and, if so, how many. Seattle is weighing a plan to close a quarter of its elementary schools. Rochester, New York, voted last fall to shut 11 of its 45 schools. […]
New Hampshire Appealing Federal Court Decision Against ‘Banned Concepts’ Law
Months after a federal court held that a 2021 state law regulating how teachers address race, gender, and other topics was unconstitutional, New Hampshire’s Attorney General’s Office has filed an appeal. In a filing to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston announced Wednesday, the office argued that the U.S. District Court of New […]
Opinion: From COVID Learning Loss to Artificial Intelligence, Education R&D Can’t Wait
When COVID struck, scientists rushed to stem the pandemic in a coordinated effort that led to the creation of new vaccines in record time, saving millions of lives. These vaccines resulted from decades of investment by the federal government in mRNA research. Investing in research and development is a time-tested and effective way to solve […]
Ohio Moves Ahead with Science of Reading Lessons, But Some Schools Still Lag
Boxes of new science of reading workbooks sit at the front of classrooms at East Woods Intermediate School in Hudson, Ohio, ready for teachers to start using when students return to school next month. Like a third of the 600 districts across the state, the Hudson schools near Cleveland didn’t use science of reading books […]
Opinion: From Success Mentors to Washing Machines, Ways to Help Kids Stay in School
For lack of a washing machine, a seventh-grader was nearly lost. This student, who lives in temporary housing in the Bronx, missed the first two weeks of class. When his mother finally agreed to a visit from a social worker, she revealed that she had no money for laundry and her child had no clothes […]
Harris Could Set Democrats’ K–12 Agenda By Reviving Ideas from 2020
Fortified by a stream of Democratic endorsements and high-dollar donations, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared every bit the presidential contender when she appeared before the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers last week. Addressing thousands of her party’s most loyal supporters just days after being endorsed by President Joe Biden, the newly ascendant […]
LA Unified Faces Criticism After Collapse of Splashy AI tool “Ed”
Parents, educators, and advocates criticized Los Angeles Unified’s bumpy rollout and collapse of its splashy artificial intelligence chatbot “Ed” – even as the district moved ahead with more projects powered by the cutting-edge technology, LAUSD last month shut down the chatbot after the firm hired to build it lost its CEO and furloughed workers. District officials […]
Alabama GOP Re-files Bill that Could Expose Librarians to Criminal Penalties
Republicans in the Alabama House of Representatives have refiled a bill that would attach criminal penalties for having some materials in libraries that are accessible to children. HB 4, sponsored by Rep. Arnold Mooney, R-Indian Springs, would apply certain criminal obscenity laws to public libraries, public school libraries and “employees or agents acting on behalf of […]
Recent Grad Sees a Gap in Educational Quality for Tribal Students in North Dakota
North Dakota tribal schools need better support — especially when it comes to serving low-income students, Shayla Davis, a member of Superintendent Kirsten Baesler’s Student Cabinet, told a crowd of tribal educators Friday. “There should be no gaps in education,” Davis, a 2023 graduate of Devils Lake High School and member of the Mandan, Hidatsa […]
Oklahoma Superintendent Unveils Guidelines For How To Teach The Bible In Schools
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters issued guidelines Wednesday for how teachers should include the Bible in public school curriculum that include requiring analysis of biblical stories and art. And amid a growing swell of pushback from districts, he warned there would be consequences for school districts that don’t comply. Grade-level specific guidelines apply […]
Facing Enrollment Drops And New Law, New Hampshire Colleges Rush To Team Up
Even after the exams and papers are done, students at New Hampshire’s community colleges have sometimes faced another headache: credit transfers. Across the state’s public higher education systems, not all completed courses at a community college are helpful for a given degree at a public four-year college or university. A student pursuing an engineering degree, […]
New North Carolina Music Office to Promote and Invest in State’s Music Industry
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has announced the creation of a North Carolina Music Office to bolster and honor the state’s music industry and its artists by investing in the industry and creating music programming. “North Carolina’s vibrant music industry is a key part of our state’s creative economy, driving economic growth and supporting nearly […]
Florida Student Athletes Can Now Profit; Rules Could Change If Bad Actors Emerge
Florida student athletes can now profit from their names, images, and likenesses — NIL for short — under a policy the Board of Education unanimously approved on Wednesday. The measure had been passed by the Florida High School Athletic Association in early June. Craig Damon, executive director of the association, said consultations with other state […]
Houston Students Aren’t Staying in the Classroom Post-Pandemic
From purchasing alarm clocks, donating Uber gift cards, showing up on families’ doorsteps and even attempting to help parents plan their vacations, Clear Creek ISD employees are exhausting their options to get students to show up to school. In the roughly 40,000-student district southeast of Houston, 17 percent of students were considered “chronically absent” during […]
School (in)Security Newsletter: Kamala’s Student Discipline Fail; School Ransomware Costs Surge to $3.75M
Crazy few weeks in American politics, huh? With Joe Biden out and Kamala Harris in, the Democrats’ last-minute, presumptive presidential nominee will once again have to reckon with her controversial legacy combatting student absences — and their nationwide surge since the pandemic — as she faces off against Donald Trump between now and November. Elected […]
Meet America's High Schoolers Vying for Olympic Gold
All eyes are on Paris, which is hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics for the first time in a century from July 24 to Aug. 11. Among the athletes competing on Team USA this summer, several are still in high school making their mark in sports ranging from gymnastics to skateboarding. Many of these students are […]
Illinois Lawmaker Calls For Strengthening Protection For Homeschooled Children
An Illinois lawmaker heading a child welfare committee said the state must strengthen its laws and policies to protect homeschooled children facing inadequate education, abuse and neglect. Rep. Terra Costa Howard, the chair of the Adoption and Child Welfare Committee in the Illinois House, called for action following a Capitol News Illinois and ProPublica investigation, […]
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