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Opinion: ‘Gap Busters’: Lessons from Charter Authorizers in Helping All Kids Achieve More
It’s the end of another school year, and while celebration is certainly in order — millions of teachers, students and families have worked incredibly hard — schools also must use this time to reckon with a challenging truth. Four years after the pandemic rocked America’s education system, students continue to post lackluster test scores and […]
Opinion: In South Florida, Parents Are Building Their Children’s Education a la Carte
Twelve years ago, Christa Jewett left her job as an environmental consultant in South Florida to start a venture that spoke to her heart: offering immersive, hands-on marine science lessons to students of all ages, using local and state parks along the Atlantic Ocean as real-life classrooms. For years, Jewett had to work side jobs […]
L.A. Schools Probe Charges its Hyped, Now-Defunct AI Chatbot Misused Student Data
Independent Los Angeles school district investigators have opened an inquiry into claims that its $6 million AI chatbot — an animated sun named “Ed” celebrated as an unprecedented learning acceleration tool until the company that built it collapsed and the district was forced to pull the plug — put students’ personal information in peril. Investigators with the […]
Reinventing Report Cards: Reading, Writing, Collaboration and Other Work Skills
A movement to throw out traditional A-F grades in favor of tracking high school students as they gain mastery of academic and life skills is gaining momentum, with five states and powerful players joining forces to advance it. The hope of the “Skills for the Future” collaboration is to make it easy for schools to […]
National Conference Convenes Education Leaders Around ‘Future-Focused Schools’
Hundreds of education leaders from across the country gathered in Washington, D.C., last week for Successful Practices Network’s (SPN) 2024 Future-Focused Schools Conference. The three-day conference discussed a shifting education landscape, changing student and employer needs, and successful strategies being implemented across the nation — including in North Carolina. This shifting landscape includes generative Artificial […]
Opinion: ‘Brown’ Devastated the Black Teaching Force. It’s Long Past Time to Fix That
It’s been 70 years since the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education ruling that declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. We recognize that Brown was a seminal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Yet we also acknowledge its profound consequences. Before Brown, in the 17 states that had segregated school systems, 35% to 50% of […]
Maryland May Join Other States to Retain Third Graders With Low Reading Proficiency
A proposed literacy policy in Maryland could have third-grade students held back for a year if they don’t achieve certain reading scores on state tests, or “demonstrate sufficient reading skills for promotion to grade 4.” Maryland would join more than half of states that allow third-grade students to be held back if the policy is […]
Was Los Angeles Schools’ $6 Million AI Venture a Disaster Waiting to Happen?
When news broke last month that Ed, the Los Angeles school district’s new, $6 million artificial intelligence chatbot, was in jeopardy — the startup that created it on the verge of collapse — many insiders in the ed tech world wondered the same thing: What took so long? The AI bot, created by Boston-based AllHere […]
Indiana’s Ed Scholarship Accounts See Boosted Participation Ahead Of 2024-25 Term
The number of Hoosier families using an Indiana Education Scholarship Account (ESA) — meant to help students who require special education services — is up 200% for the upcoming school year, the Indiana Treasurer of State announced Monday. The agency said more than 50% of the $10 million appropriated for ESAs in the 2024-25 academic […]
Oklahoma’s Largest School Districts Now Led by Black Women, Making State History
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma reached a new milestone on Monday with a new superintendent taking office in Oklahoma City Public Schools. For the first time, Black women are simultaneously leading the state’s two largest school districts, OKCPS and Tulsa Public Schools. Jamie Polk stepped into the OKCPS superintendent role on Monday, succeeding Sean McDaniel. Ebony […]
Opinion: For Youth Job Training Programs to Work, Employers Must Have Skin in the Game
Employers often complain about how difficult it is to find talent for open positions or how education and training programs must better align to workforce needs. Meanwhile, education and training providers bemoan a general lack of clarity from employers on the skills necessary to secure employment. Taken together, this means workforce training programs have fallen […]
Rhode Island’s Ed Chief on Charters, Enrollment Loss and Providence’s Future
After five years in charge of Rhode Island’s largest district, state education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green will soon decide whether Providence schools have made enough headway to be released from state control. She’s called on a Massachusetts-based consulting firm, SchoolWorks, to lead an independent review of the system. Based on the deplorable condition of many schools […]
Building Bridges Across State Lines Is Set to Transform Education in Connecticut
The American public education system is unique to each state, shaped by differences in demographics, legislation, past and present community involvement, and more. Every state has its own challenges to overcome, as well as its bright spots. It’s critical that our public schools are shaped to fit their specific communities to ensure students, families, and […]
Private School Just For Low Income Kids Looks To Create Thriving Adults
Fourth-grader Jeiona Odon sets the tray of food on a lunch table at The Greater Dayton School as fellow student Jacyn Diamond begins placing bowls on a revolving tray at the center. The bowls of Caesar salad, spaghetti and chicken piccata are all made with fresh ingredients. And each bowl has tongs for the half […]
Opinion: High-Poverty Schools in Colorado, Massachusetts Defying the Odds for Students
Students from low-income families typically face significant barriers to high-quality education. There is a substantial amount of work to be done to ensure that these students have the same opportunity to learn as their more advantaged peers. Two recent reports from Education Reform Now highlight strategies that high-poverty schools across Massachusetts and Colorado are implementing […]
The Rise Of Education Entrepreneurs In Minnesota
When Dale Ahlquist cofounded Chesterton Academy in Hopkins, Minnesota in 2008 with colleague Tom Bengtson, he wanted to offer an ideal learning environment for his younger children and some of their friends. His older children graduated from a conventional private school and there was much he appreciated about their experience; but he believed he could build something […]
With Poll Showing 1 in 4 Kids Is Chronically Absent, How 1 District Is Reaching Out
Officials at Virginia’s Richmond Public Schools knew something had to change when nearly 40% of students were chronically absent in the wake of the pandemic. Dozens of seats remained empty when classrooms fully reopened in the 2021-22 school year. Approaches to absenteeism in the 22,000-student district were failing, and administrators were forced to rethink how […]
California Teachers are Using AI to Grade Papers. Who’s Grading the AI?
Your children could be some of a growing number of California kids having their writing graded by software instead of a teacher. California school districts are signing more contracts for artificial intelligence tools, from automated grading in San Diego to chatbots in central California, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area. English teachers say […]
Indiana’s Overall Child Well-Being Scores Decline in New National Report
A new state-by-state report shows Indiana’s child well-being ranking has dropped — in part due to Hoosier kids’ dismal math and reading scores, as well as increased rates of youth deaths. Although Indiana continues to rank in the bottom half of states for its rates of teen births and children living in high-poverty or in […]
Alabama Lawmakers Consider New School Funding Model
With one legislative session finished and the next about eight months away, Alabama legislators will spend the time in-between deciding whether to develop an entirely new school funding formula. The House and Senate committees that oversee the Education Trust Fund (ETF), the state’s education budget, held a joint meeting Tuesday to begin discussions about potential […]
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