Conservatives have accused schools of hijacking SEL to promote progressive ideas about race, gender and sexuality, while liberals have warned of threats to student privacy.
Pittsburgh Public Schools is starting 2022 with "A Fresh Start for the Head & Heart" to reimagine and reinvigorate teaching, learning, culture and leadership for the 'next normal' in education.
Nearly 20 states earned a "red light" warning for a lack of clarity on how their COVID-relief spending plans will help students and schools most in need, according to a new analysis.
In the area of assessment, our collective experience with designing and delivering online tests at such scale over the past two years has given us some good tea leaves to read.
But the future of testing post-COVID may be driven more by politics than by what educators most want to know about their students' progress, says one expert.
Though many students are likely to spend most of this school year learning in-person, short-term shifts back to remote instruction could again chip away at the reliability of year-end assessments.
