Efforts to understand school and student performance have been snarled by a surprisingly hard-to-answer question: Which schools have the highest concentration of the poorest students?
School closures may be necessary for some districts that continue to overspend without producing meaningful outcomes, said Director of Georgetown University's Edunomics Lab Marguerite Roza in a webinar Wednesday.
"Assistant principals are uniquely positioned to effect meaningful change in schools, making them a critical piece of a successful school community," said National Assn. of Elementary School Principals Executive Director L. Earl Franks after the NAESP named the 27 National Outstanding Assistant Principals of 2023.
Burbio compiled data from more than 400 school board meeting summaries representing nearly one-fourth of the K12 population. The results may or may not surprise you.
Here's the narrative: Burned-out teachers are bolting the profession for more satisfying and lucrative jobs in the private sector. But research in one state may reveal an arguably more concerning outcome.
"What once seemed like an ambitious goal in terms of the effective use of technology to support both the academic and business operations within a school district is now closer to reality," concludes a new report from Project Tomorrow.
Teacher shortages and social-emotional learning are not, at first glance, issues we expect the IT department to solve. Your students and staff may beg to differ.
The newest iteration of the bill would ban discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in grades 4 through 12 unless explicitly required by existing state standards or as part of instruction related to reproductive health.
Generative AI is advancing faster than its creator can fix its most critical flaw: "how easily it can be weaponized by malign actors to manufacture misinformation campaigns," according to a new report.
