Search Results For k 12

Briefing

6 digital skills your students must master before graduating high school

Micah Ward | February 06, 2023

Ensuring students have equitable opportunities to learn digital literacy skills is more important than ever as a record 92% of jobs require "definitely digital" or "likely digital" skills.

Student arrested in beating of 3rd grader inside school bus in Homestead

February 03, 2023

Disturbing and alarming cell phone video captures the moment a 9-year-old girl is beaten by several older boys while riding on a bus from her K-8 academy.

Briefing

Cybersecurity: Your district can't afford to make these avoidable mistakes

Micah Ward | January 31, 2023

"The secret is out: K12s are a target-rich and resource-poor sector," says TJ Sayers, cyber threat intelligence manager at the Center for Internet Security (CIS). "Maintaining complete, secured, and offline backups is the single-most effective way to recover from most attacks, including ransomware."

Briefing

AP African American Studies course shrinks in scope after outcry

Matt Zalaznick | January 31, 2023

Many Black scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience, and Black feminism have been removed—along with Black Lives Matter—from the official curriculum, The New York Times reported.

'School choice' is culture-war focus for Kansas lawmakers

January 31, 2023

In lieu of a Florida-style “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Kansas Republicans are trying to help parents remove their kids from public schools over a "sexualized woke agenda.”

Opinion

Teacher wellbeing: Why 2023 needs to be the Year of the Teacher

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | January 30, 2023

Teachers need space to heal and to break the pattern of struggle to reconnect with their jobs emotionally. They also need to feel trusted and respected.

Briefing

How to manage the looming threat of school shootings in 2023

Micah Ward | January 29, 2023

Between 2016 and 2020, there has been a total of 173 mass shootings in the U.S. Among those, 13 have occurred within educational institutions, making this sector the third-most targeted.

How ChatGPT can actually be a force for good rather than a boon for cheaters

Matt Zalaznick | January 27, 2023

"With ChatGPT, students can ask the bot for feedback on their writing. It can provide example texts students can study. It can provide creative ideas for projects and prompts the student (or the teacher) might not think of otherwise," says author and former teacher Matt Miller.