We Stand Up for Kids Even When You Don't Want Us To
Women education bloggers from around the country shared their thoughts on what it means to be, raise and educate women in the age of Trump. The dialogue stimulated more responses from members of the...
California
Suspension Is No Longer the Only Tool Educators Have to Address Discipline Problems
A student yells at a teacher, engages in an altercation with a peer or is continually late to class. For decades, under a zero-tolerance framework, the result has been the same: detention, suspension...
School Funding
Local Property Taxes Will Never Be an Equitable Way to Fund Public Schools, But Here’s Something We Could Change Now That Would Help
A new report from EdBuild, Building Equity: Fairness in Property Tax Effort for Education, analyzes the way public schools are funded via property taxes and how this affects school funding equity....
Special Education
Analyzing High School Performance State-by-State Is Like Comparing Bananas to Bowling Balls
I know we’re all supposed to be on the “local control” bandwagon when it comes to setting school accountability standards, but a recent report made it crystal clear why this is going to be a hot...
Parents
For #WorldBookDay, Here's Some Tips to Get Your Child Reading Every Day
What’s the best way parents can support their child’s reading growth at home? Read every night. That sounds simple enough but anyone who has had the “have you done your homework” conversation knows...
Standards
How Computer-Based Assessments Empower Educators and Students
If you went through grade school in the last 40 years, chances are you remember filling in answer bubbles to columns of multiple choice items. The introduction of Scantron forms allowed for...
