Tag: secondary education

August 23, 2022

Through strikes and lawsuits, several education unions are starting to take action against their districts ahead of the new school year. On Sunday night, 94% of Columbus Education Association members in Ohio voted to go on strike effective Monday for […]

May 2, 2022

Back when I was a campus principal, everyone knew that my professional “love language” was both giving and receiving gifts. Find me a snack cake, and I can spout a rhyme that can be attached and distributed to our team. […]

March 14, 2022

While K-12 cyberattacks show a decrease since 2020, there’s likely “an undercount of what is actually going on,” K12 SIX National Director Doug Levin said Thursday during the Second Annual K-12 Cybersecurity Leadership Symposium. “We have a limited view into […]

March 3, 2022

A $100 million gift to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center will support and endow its new school of public health, the institution announced Wednesday. The donation comes from the O’Donnell Foundation, established by the philanthropist Peter O’Donnell Jr., […]

February 15, 2022

Most educators are concerned that summative assessments cause students undue anxiety, adding to growing concerns over the state of K-12 assessments and how they’re created, delivered, and interpreted. State of Assessment in K-12 Education, a new report from Instructure, the […]

January 28, 2022

Over the last two years, far too many people in education have acted as if antiracism is a new thing. It is not. Going back to scholars and activists like George Dei, Angela Davis, Mica Pollock, Louise Derman-Sparks and Carol […]

January 28, 2022

While the debate is not new to the world of librarianship, the controversy about which books should be allowed to grace the shelves of a school library has become a common topic of conversation on news channels, talk shows and […]

July 8, 2021

Six key K-12 education trends, including teachers and parents becoming more open to new ways to teach and learn, and finding value in technology to stay connected, will be necessary to move education forward in the coming months. According to […]

January 25, 2021

In his first 48 hours in office, President Biden sought to project an optimistic message about returning the nation’s many homebound students to classrooms. “We can teach our children in safe schools,” he vowed in his inaugural address. The following […]

May 26, 2017

State Superintendent Chris Reykdal has urged lawmakers to expedite their work on satisfying a court mandate on putting more money toward basic education in Washington state, but he said Wednesday that he also wants them to start thinking about how […]

May 18, 2017

Providing meaningful professional development to teachers has become particularly important in recent years with the introduction of new standards and technologies to classrooms nationwide — especially as the K-12 education system has increasingly come to grips with the need for […]

May 15, 2017

Charter school funding remains a divisive topic amongst educators and advocates, with supporters arguing that it is unfair that charter students are not properly funded while critics of charters say the schools drain money from the coffers of public school […]

May 9, 2017

At Victor H. Hexter Elementary School in Dallas, TX, “we put all of our money into technology and the classroom libraries,” said Principal Jennifer Jackson, who focuses heavily on literacy throughout the school’s curriculum. And classroom libraries are robust. Each […]

May 8, 2017

The divergences K-8 teachers are encountering in their classrooms could help support increasing calls from advocates for more robust early childhood education options. In addition to a strong return on investment for costly upfront expenses, early childhood education could help […]

April 7, 2017

School choice is at the center of the Trump administration’s education policy efforts, with initial proposals calling for additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as the creation of a new federal private school […]

April 6, 2017

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) returns a significant amount of decision-making power to states, assessments included. With implementation fast approaching, states and the districts within them are piloting a number of alternative models for assessing student progress. The greater […]

March 24, 2017

With the onset of the so-called “new economy,” much of our educational systems is being questioned. With more than 40 percent of future work being independent contract work, what is the best way to learn or prepare for a career? […]

March 16, 2017

Do the many charter school success stories recounted in The Founders mean that high-performing charters will soon show up in every city? Not at all. There are three blunt realities that need a full airing. First, any reader looking at […]

March 14, 2017

When it comes to special ed and serving student with disabilities, many schools are still challenged. District leaders need to understand that because the autism spectrum is wide and fluid, with definitions and symptoms being constantly updated, the task of […]

March 10, 2017

Job-market woes, mental illness, and unionization seem to be all we read anymore about the graduate-school experience. There’s no shortage of advice on those frontsfrom professors and administrators. But as a doctoral student, I’d like to focus on some common […]