June 18, 2018 ASHLEY INMAN This update on the Every Student Succeeds Act and the education plans now being refined by state legislatures is produced in partnership with ESSA Essentials, a new series from the Collaborative for Student Success. It’s an offshoot of their ESSA Advance newsletter. Utah State Superintendent of Public Instruction Sydnee Dickson was recently…
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From the Schoolhouse to the State House: These 7 Teachers Are Running for Office to Say ‘No More’ to Slashed Education Funding
June 18, 2018 LAURA FAY If you don’t count high school student body president, Aimy Steele has never held political office. But as a teacher and school administrator, she’s run classrooms and schools, and now she’s running to represent her district in North Carolina’s state house of representatives. Steele and thousands of teachers around the…
How America’s Schools Have (and Haven’t) Changed in the 64 Years Since the Brown v. Board Verdict — as Told in 15 Charts
By KEVIN MAHNKEN | May 13, 2018 Thursday marks the 64th anniversary of the Supreme Court abolishing segregated schools in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. That means a generation of Americans has been born, attended public schools, matured into adulthood, raised children of their own, and now reached retirement age — all outside the shadow of…
House Committee Advances Education Spending Bill With $41 Million Increase, Ends Long-standing Ban on Federal Integration Efforts
The House Appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Education Department approved a bill Friday that would slightly increase federal funding while giving the Trump administration almost none of its requests. The bill would allocate $71 billion to the department for fiscal 2019, an increase of $43 million. The Trump administration had, for the second year in…
Does Race Matter in Education? New Survey of Millennials Reveals Conflicting Opinions on Equity
By KEVIN MAHNKEN September 14, 2017 The prevalence of race in American schools has been reexamined in recent years, as new reports indicate growing segregation more than six decades after Brown v. Board of Education. But a new study of millennials reveals surprisingly mixed views when it comes to equity and the need for racial integration. Respondents also voiced strong — if occasionally…
Public Schools For a New Generation: 5 Reasons Why Millennials Will Bend the Arc of American Education
One of my goals this year is inspiring fellow millennials to join the work of improving America’s public schools. Last November, I wrote in The 74 about the results of a poll showing that millennials believe education provides the best opportunity for success in life — much more so than factors like how much money you have or…
Hiler — No College Left Behind: 5 Lessons From the Pitfalls of NCLB to Keep in Mind As We Reform Higher Education
June 18, 2018 TAMARA HILER When I switched from federal K-12 policy to federal higher education policy two years ago, I assumed moving from one issue area to the other wouldn’t be that hard. I quickly learned that while both of these policy areas share a topline interest in improving school systems, the two worlds…
Commentary: To Improve Education in Our Technological World, Put Teachers in Charge of ‘Doing Different’ and Empower Them to Innovate
June 18, 2018 TED KOLDERIE With personalized and digital learning approaching, traditional real school is obsolete. Now, for learning to be better, school will have to be different. This means the traditional process for change is also obsolete. Getting fundamentally different schools will require a fundamentally different process. What improved the existing will not produce…
California’s CORE districts joined forces to bolster social-emotional development, but a study of 400,000 kids reveals gaps in learning & a confidence crisis among middle school girls
Girls’ self-confidence plummets as they enter middle school even though they perform significantly better in academics than their male peers, according to a recent study of nearly 400,000 California students in some of the state’s largest school districts. Kate Stringer June 12, 2018 As they progress through school, students are getting better at believing they…
With all eyes on Janus, a similar case in California meets quiet defeat — for now
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Franciso on Monday dismissed Bain v. California Teachers Association. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Mario Koran June 11, 2018 While the nation is anxiously watching for a decision on Janus v. AFSCME, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could determine whether government unions can continue to charge non-members…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 