Showing posts with label Public Schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Schools. Show all posts
Saturday, December 14, 2024

What would it mean if President-elect Trump dismantled the US Department of Education?

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  In her role as former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, Linda McMahon oversaw an enterprise that popularized the “takedown...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Project 2025 policies would make schools less safe for all students

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  School is often a safe haven for marginalized youth, including LGBTQI+ students. The Trevor Project reports in a large-scale 2024 survey ...
Sunday, February 4, 2024

70 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, public schools still deeply segregated

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  Brown vs. Board of Education , the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional, turns 70 years old on May...
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Finding objective ways to talk about religion in the classroom is tough − but the cost of not doing so is clear

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  Religious strife continues in many places. While the United States has a great deal of litigation and controversy over religion’s place i...
Friday, April 7, 2023

40 years ago ‘A Nation at Risk’ warned of a ‘rising tide of mediocrity’ in US schools – has anything changed?

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  The National Commission on Excellence in Education’s release of a report titled “A Nation at Risk” in 1983 was a pivotal point in the his...
Monday, March 20, 2023

School choice proposals rarely go before voters – and typically fail when they do

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  Arizona lawmakers decided in late 2022 that the state will pay tuition, related education expenses, or both for children at any school pa...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Is it time for teachers to get a raise?

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  In his 2023 State of the Union address , President Joe Biden called for public school teachers to get a raise but offered no specifics on...
Monday, January 30, 2023

Florida Gov. DeSantis leads the GOP’s national charge against public education that includes lessons on race and sexual orientation

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  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ disdain for “woke ideology” is on full display.   At a January 2023 inaugural event, the governor boasted that...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Court OKs coach's on-field prayer, shifting balance for religious expression

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  In its decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton , the Supreme Court strengthened First Amendment protection for religious speech by government off...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Perspectives: Court sets new rules for funding religious schools

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  The Supreme Court, in striking down a unique tuition assistance program in Maine, could foreshadow the future of religious freedom under t...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

State funds for students at religious schools? Supreme Court says ‘yes’ in Maine case – but consequences could go beyond

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  For nearly three-quarters of a century, one issue in education has come up before the Supreme Court more than any other: disputes over rel...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Public education is supposed to prepare an informed citizenry – elementary teachers have just two hours a week to teach social studies

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  The founders of the United States were intentionally building a nation based on the ideals of the Enlightenment, a movement centered on i...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

US schools are not racially integrated, despite decades of effort

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  Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the court’s declare...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Legacy of Jim Crow still affects funding for public schools

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  Nearly 70 years ago – in its 1954 Brown v. Board decision – the Supreme Court framed racial segregation as the cause of educational inequ...
Friday, May 6, 2022

Police presence on school grounds poses potential risks to kids

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  In fall 2020, I got an email from the Phoenix Elementary School District #1, a K-8 school district, requesting feedback on whether to con...
Friday, April 22, 2022

‘Every day feels unsettled’ – educators decry staffing shortage

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  The COVID-19 pandemic, with its multiple waves of remote, hybrid, and in-person education, increased students’ needs for support, reveale...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

‘Teaching has always been hard, but it’s never been like this’ – elementary school teachers talk about managing their classrooms during a pandemic

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  As the omicron wave spikes across the United States, K-12 education is one of many systems buckling under the weight of expanding needs. R...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Watch for these conflicts over education in 2022

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  At school board meetings across the country in 2021, parents engaged in physical altercations, shouted at school board members, and threa...
Friday, November 5, 2021

What American schools can learn from other countries about civic disagreement

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  Few areas of American life have experienced more conflict of late than public education. The conflict has largely revolved around how pub...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

COVID-19 threatens the already shaky status of arts education in schools

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  Parents can watch their kids draw and paint at home or perform in school music concerts and dance recitals. But they may not know how thei...