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The illness is actual physical exhaustion and demoralization caused by a dangerous shortage of classroom teachers and an almost immoral diet of standardized testing.
If current trends continue, only 1 out of 10 children in low-income countries will be on track to acquire basic secondary level skills by 2030. This is all a far cry from the ambition of SDG 4.
Accountability is different for public and private schools. But it’s hard to argue that private schools don’t have enough when dissatisfied parents can, unlike parents in public schools, leave at any time.
Two New Jersey Assembly members want school districts to stop teaching Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” because of racist language and themes in the 134-year-old story.
A state audit of Hartford Public Schools in Connecticut found the district had been illegally recruiting white students to fulfill state-imposed race quotas.
Texas lawmakers are proposing a wide range of fixes for the state’s public school endowment, which has lost out on billions in growth during the past decade while paying out less to schoolchildren.
Massachusetts brought home a “D” on its latest report card in responding to lead drinking water in schools. Lawmakers propose all schools and early education centers ensure that children have access to safe drinking water.
California wants all school districts to come up with smartphone policies, including banning or restricting when students can use the phones at school or on school grounds.
Time is running out for legislation mandating a minimum score on the U.S. citizenship test and other bills that could alter what’s taught in public schools, including one requiring computer programming and another allowing more Bible-related teaching.
Broward County Public Schools will expand its investigation into the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, to include the principal Ty Thompson.
When news broke last week that only seven black students were accepted into New York City’s Stuyvesant High School, an elite public school that supposedly only takes the most advanced students in the city, I wasn’t surprised.
Newtown Public School District in Newtown, Connecticut received one one free year of service for the Anonymous Alerts app for middle and high schools. Administrators chose to adopt the app […]
As Lake Zurich school district superintendent, Kaine Osburn saw passage of a $77.6 million building bond issue and the establishment of a strategic plan before moving on to the Avoca District 37, also in Illinois.
K-12 schools around the country select new products and services to boost student learning, simplify record-keeping and manage computer systems.
In December 2018, Sand Springs Public Schools in Oklahoma rolled out the STOPIt app so students and parents could anonymously report incidents and communicate with administrators. Each school has assigned administrators […]
Challenge: At Oak Lawn Community High School in Illinois, Dean of Students Jamie Hernandez along with other teachers wanted to start a support group for female students. “As a dean, […]
The new bus routing initiative at West York Area School began began in December where the district assigns one teacher to each of the 25 elementary bus routes. Below are […]
Here are the bullying prevention programs at Windsor Central School District after district leaders implemented the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program in every school. Class meetings At New York’s Windsor Central School […]
At the end of 2018, Poudre School District’s four middle schools had benefited from the Colorado Department of Education’s Bullying Prevention and Education Grant for one year. By 2019, many […]
Below are the bullying prevention programs that Bridgehampton UFSD has funded with a Paddlers for Humanity grant that supports mental health programs. Bully Prevention Committee Bridgehampton UFSD Superintendent Bob Houser […]
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