This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor years, research has consistently shown that SAT and ACT test scores are largely a function oft family income, race and the mother’s education level. As a result, the University of California was applauded recently by many critics of high-stakes standardized testing for that it would phase out the use of SAT and ACT test scores as admissions requirements over the next several years.But this post argues that eliminating those tests as admissions requirements doesn’t come close, by itself, to achieving a truly diverse...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor years, research has consistently shown that SAT and ACT test scores are largely a function oft family income, race and the mother’s education level. As a result, the University of California was applauded recently by many critics of high-stakes standardized testing for that it would phase out the use of SAT and ACT test scores as admissions requirements over the next several years.But this post argues that eliminating those tests as admissions requirements doesn’t come close, by itself, to achieving a truly diverse...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTwo lesser-known educators have emerged as top candidates for education secretary — a former dean at Howard University and the commissioner of schools in Connecticut, people familiar with the process said.The first is Leslie T. Fenwick, dean emeritus of the Howard University School of Education and a professor of educational policy and leadership. The second is Miguel Cardona, who last year was named the top education official in Connecticut.Both have positions that could draw fire, though in different ways. Fenwick is a...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTwo lesser-known educators have emerged as top candidates for education secretary — a former dean at Howard University and the commissioner of schools in Connecticut, people familiar with the process said.The first is Leslie T. Fenwick, dean emeritus of the Howard University School of Education and a professor of educational policy and leadership. The second is Miguel Cardona, who last year was named the top education official in Connecticut.Both have positions that could draw fire, though in different ways. Fenwick is a...WW…

WASHINGTON - It's going to be screen time all the time for kindergartners and graduate students alike. Teachers are threatening strikes. And students are already coming home infected with the coronavirus, which has upended American education.The 2020-21 school year has dawned, and it's more chaotic than any before it.Plans are changing so fast that students and parents can hardly keep up. Districts that spent all summer planning hybrid systems, in which children would be in school part of the week, ditched them as coronavirus cases surged. Universities changed their teaching models, their...…WASHINGTON - It's going to be screen time all the time for kindergartners and graduate students alike. Teachers are threatening strikes. And students are already coming home infected with the coronavirus, which has upended American education.The 2020-21 school year has dawned, and it's more chaotic than any before it.Plans are changing so fast that students and parents can hardly keep up. Districts that spent all summer planning hybrid systems, in which children would be in school part of the week, ditched them as coronavirus cases surged. Universities changed their teaching models, their...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateWASHINGTON - Just as they face unprecedented new challenges and financial costs, leaders of K-12 public school districts around the country are warning of dire consequences from sharp budget cuts from state legislatures attempting to deal with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.The alarm was sounded by school superintendents in 62 cities, who sent a letter to Congress through the nonprofit Council for the Great City Schools, asking Congress for billions of dollars in new federal education assistance and warning that...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateWASHINGTON - Just as they face unprecedented new challenges and financial costs, leaders of K-12 public school districts around the country are warning of dire consequences from sharp budget cuts from state legislatures attempting to deal with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.The alarm was sounded by school superintendents in 62 cities, who sent a letter to Congress through the nonprofit Council for the Great City Schools, asking Congress for billions of dollars in new federal education assistance and warning that...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLast year, David Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeleycalled “Ethics in the Age of Trump,” which didn’t go quite as he expected.Now, with this school and just about very other one in the country closed because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Kirp had to switch from regular classroom teaching to online education — literally overnight — with virtually no training.What changed? How are his students reacting? It’s all in this post by Kirp, a former journalist and member of President...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLast year, David Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeleycalled “Ethics in the Age of Trump,” which didn’t go quite as he expected.Now, with this school and just about very other one in the country closed because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Kirp had to switch from regular classroom teaching to online education — literally overnight — with virtually no training.What changed? How are his students reacting? It’s all in this post by Kirp, a former journalist and member of President...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareA few years ago I by Joanne Barkan about the long history of the movement to privatize public education. It began:When champions of market-based reform in the United States look at public education, they see two separate activities — government funding education and government running schools. The first is okay with them; the second is not. Reformers want to replace their bête noire — what they call the “monopoly of government-run schools” — with freedom of choice in a competitive market dominated by privately run schools...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareA few years ago I by Joanne Barkan about the long history of the movement to privatize public education. It began:When champions of market-based reform in the United States look at public education, they see two separate activities — government funding education and government running schools. The first is okay with them; the second is not. Reformers want to replace their bête noire — what they call the “monopoly of government-run schools” — with freedom of choice in a competitive market dominated by privately run schools...WW…

This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareYou’ve heard it before: Today’s kids are “digital natives,” raised in a world of technology that they know like the back of their hand. As it turns out, that’s not necessarily true about Generation Z (the demographic cohort following the millennials born in the mid- to late 1990s).Results were recently released from the and they were sobering: Only 2 percent of students scored at the highest levels implied by digital native status, and only another 19 percent of the 42,000 students assessed in 14 countries and educational...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareYou’ve heard it before: Today’s kids are “digital natives,” raised in a world of technology that they know like the back of their hand. As it turns out, that’s not necessarily true about Generation Z (the demographic cohort following the millennials born in the mid- to late 1990s).Results were recently released from the and they were sobering: Only 2 percent of students scored at the highest levels implied by digital native status, and only another 19 percent of the 42,000 students assessed in 14 countries and educational...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTop Democrats in Congress on Thursday blasted congressional Republicans for assigning to the House education committee Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — who has identified with the QAnon cult and called deadly school shootings “false-flag” operations.Greene, who has repeatedly made racist comments and repeated numerous conspiracy theories, tweeted about her new assignment, saying: “Very excited to join Ranking Member @virginiafoxx and others on the House Education and Labor Committee! Let’s get to work!” (She was...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTop Democrats in Congress on Thursday blasted congressional Republicans for assigning to the House education committee Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — who has identified with the QAnon cult and called deadly school shootings “false-flag” operations.Greene, who has repeatedly made racist comments and repeated numerous conspiracy theories, tweeted about her new assignment, saying: “Very excited to join Ranking Member @virginiafoxx and others on the House Education and Labor Committee! Let’s get to work!” (She was...WW…