COVID positivity rate among students in one Florida district has dropped by 23% since masks were mandated even as state leaders continue to threaten fines and other punishments.
Schools must balance two complex issues—safety and privacy—as they look to technology to help them identify students who are suffering a mental health crisis or threatening self-harm.
COVID demonstrated that if educators pool our limited resources and focus on teaching and learning in a variety of models, we can achieve anything we set our minds to.
Keeping track of all the laptops and Wi-Fi hotspots distributed urgently to students was yet another of COVID's myriad challenges. How big a challenge that continues to be depends on a range of factors.
In a 4-3 decision, the Ohio Supreme Court struck down a Madison Local School District policy that allowed up to 10 employees with concealed handgun licenses and training to carry weapons while in school.
The teachers, who voted unanimously to strike in late May, said they want pay increases that would put them closer to salary schedules for district-run schools.
Calling critical race theory "deeply flawed and controversial," 20 state attorneys general want it left out of Department of Ed history and civics guidance.
How administrators can strike a balance between letting teachers experiment and ensuring new digital tools are high-quality, cost-effective and secure.
We are already seeing union campaigns to boost hiring, even though the much-predicted teacher exodus never materialized. In fact, we lost fewer school employees through resignations and retirement in 2020 than in 2019.
