The explosion of personalized learning in k-12 education has resulted in more than 90 percent of schools using digital tools to individualize classroom instruction. But research showing personalized learning is an effective approach for improving student learning is incomplete at best. Photo Source: Frederick Florin / Getty...
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The Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) announced the proposed teacher licensing changes will “set forth the knowledge and skills that all teachers must demonstrate to receive their license" and include a "sharpened focus on educational equity." But equity does not mean treating all kids equally, and if these rule changes pass, teachers will be trained to favor some students at the expense of others. ...
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No matter how it is framed, the most recent scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress paint a troubling picture of reading achievement in the country. One possible culprit: “a once-bipartisan school-reform community’s hard turn to the left.”...
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How can American employers better tap into the talents of students in our nation’s community colleges? Accenture, a global professional services firm, believes that enhanced use of apprenticeships offers an important, but much underutilized pathway....
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As another teachers’ union-led demonstration keeps students out of school, the national headlines covering the rally only focus on part of the story. ...
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Science teachers in Washington state are being told that the only explanation for outcome differences by demographic is a broken system—anyone saying otherwise is a bigot....
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The battle over charter schools today is largely due, I believe, to a misunderstanding of the charter school idea and its purpose....
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Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants to extend the school day to 6 p.m. to align it with the work day and better support working families. But is a longer school day the solution to rigid work schedules? Even liberal Whoopi Goldberg is concerned, referring to Harris's plan as "institutionalizing" kids....
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For some reason, the agenda for the Duluth School Board's public meetings gets discussed and set in private behind closed doors. Not only are members of the public excluded from attending meetings to set the agenda. So are all but two of the school board members who represent the public. But perhaps not for much longer, thanks to questions raised in the news coverage and now the editorial page of the Duluth News Tribune. Yes, of course there’s suspicion — or the “implication” — “that there is something that is going on in School Board agenda meetings that’s secret or excludes people,”...
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School funding debates have led to several pretty costly spending proposals from the 2020 presidential candidate pool. There are three big concerns Americans need to consider before they jump on board with these proposals....
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