Academics

COVID aid funded big repairs at high-poverty schools. Will that give academics a boost too?

Across 21 states with publicly available data, schools on average planned to spend 18% of their third and largest COVID aid package on facilities, a Chalkbeat analysis found.

New Jersey begins first-in-nation plan for K-12 climate change academics

In summer of 2020, New Jersey became the first state in the nation to adopt a plan to incorporate climate change into K-12 academics.

A college fights ‘leftist academics’ by expanding into charter schools

Hillsdale College is building a national charter school network. Tennessee invited the college to start 50 of them, using public funds

How academics, social development factor into modes of instruction

A parent's request to keep their student in virtual learning should prompt the IEP team to review if the student has been meeting all his IEP goals and objectives.

DATV: Why alternative high schools are looking beyond academics

Alternative high schools help students resolve academic and attendance issues. Yet there's been a sea change in the way educators approach these goals.