This year, the media has exposed a string of harms to individual privacy by the technology sector’s leading firms. But policymakers must intervene specifically to protect the most vulnerable people in our society: children. Their behavioral data is continuously suctioned up by technology firms through tablets, smartphones and computers and is at risk of being […]
In a 7-1 vote, the Indiana State Board of Education recommended that state lawmakers impose stricter rules on virtual charter school and the agencies that oversee them. The proposed rules would stop school districts from overseeing virtual schools, eliminate a fee structure, and limit the growth of new and chronically underperforming virtual schools. Nearly 10 […]
Mark Daniels will become the superintendent of schools for the East Windsor Regional School District, effective Feb. 1, 2019. He currently serves as assistant superintendent of educational services for the Plainfield Public School District. The East Windsor Regional School District’s Board of Education has named a new superintendent of schools. Mark Daniels will become the […]
The Ohio Senate has passed a bill that would give schools resources to develop and model a cursive handwriting curriculum. The Ohio Department of Education will be mandated to make the instructional materials available to all schools in the state, but each school can decide whether to implement it. The Ohio Senate has passed House […]
America’s inequality problem is bigger than Harvard, the University of Michigan or the SAT. But there are steps universities can take to ease the application process for low-income students. A new study suggests that low-income high school students are more likely to apply to selective colleges if they’re aware that they can receive financial aid. […]
In urban areas across the country that give parents significant choice over where to send their kids to school, educational stratification and racial segregation is usually exacerbated. The result is that even when urban districts improve a little, they struggle to improve a lot because middle-class parents choose to send their children elsewhere. In recent […]
More Colorado students use school choice to opt into traditional district-run schools than use it to attend charter schools. Those who do so are more likely to be white and middle- or upper-class than their peers. And transportation continues to be a barrier for students who want to go somewhere other than their neighborhood school, […]
Abby Dolliver, superintendent of Norwich Public Schools, announced her intent to retire at the end of the 2018-19 academic year. She has served as superintendent since 2010, and has worked in the Norwich system for nearly 30 years. Superintendent of Norwich Public Schools Abby Dolliver on Tuesday announced her intent to retire at the end […]
After four years at the helm of Park Ridge-Niles School District 64, Superintendent Laurie Heinz has announced plans to leave the district at the end of the current school year to become the new superintendent of Community Consolidated School District 15. After four years at the helm of Park Ridge-Niles School District 64, Superintendent Laurie […]
Gov. Tom Wolf and legislative leaders of both political parties have negotiated behind the scenes in Harrisburg to send millions of dollars in bonus funding to about two dozen of the state’s 500 school districts. That’s unacceptable. Fairness and equality of opportunity should be granted to all students in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf and legislative […]
