In Texas, Questions About Prosecuting Truancy
As long as there have been schools and classes, there have been students who don't show up. And educators scratching their heads over what to do about it.In most states, missing a lot of school means a...
View ArticleWhat The Best College Teachers Do
Part of our ongoing series of conversations with thinkers and activists on education issuesIn a year in which we're exploring great teaching, it's a good time to talk with Ken Bain. He's a longtime...
View ArticleBiology Professor's Calling: Teach Deaf Students They Can Do Anything
To get a really good sense of why Caroline Solomon is a great teacher, you have to go into the field with her. On this particular morning, that means a boat on the Anacostia River.We're about 4 miles...
View ArticleA Vision For Teacher Training At MIT: West Point Meets Bell Labs
For decades, Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College, Columbia University, has tried to imagine a new kind of institution for training teachers. He envisions a combination West Point...
View ArticleTexas Turns Away From Prosecuting Truants
For two decades, Texas has treated truancy as a criminal offense. That means most cases were prosecuted in adult courts where children, along with their parents, faced jail and fines of up to $1,500...
View ArticleFrozen In Time, Remembering The Students Who Changed A Teacher's Life
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View ArticleHow Standardized Tests Are Scored (Hint: Humans Are Involved)
Standardized tests tied to the Common Core are under fire in lots of places for lots of reasons. But who makes them and how they're scored is a mystery.For a peek behind the curtain, I traveled to the...
View ArticleStop Picking On No Child Left Behind (Says One Of Its Parents)
It's official. More than 13 years after President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law, it's now ... well, still law. But, as of Thursday, it is one big step closer to...
View ArticleIs This The Beginning Of The End For The SAT And ACT?
Many high schoolers hoping to attend George Washington University in Washington, D.C., one of the top private universities in the country, breathed a sigh of relief this week.GWU announced it will no...
View ArticleHigh Schoolers And Snooze Buttons: A Public Health Crisis?
"If a kid is in first period when they should still be asleep, how much are they really learning?"Anne Wheaton is an epidemiologist and the lead author of a new study published by the Centers for...
View ArticleStudy Tracks Vast Racial Gap In School Discipline In 13 Southern States
For years there has been mounting evidence that U.S. schools suspend and expel African-American students at higher rates than white students.
View ArticleBack To School? Back To The Piggy Bank
So if you add up all the college costs that students and parents probably didn't plan for — the stuff that isn't tuition and room and board — how big is that number? The National Retail Federation...
View Article10 Years In, Tulsa's Pre-K Investment Is Paying Off
Researchers have been tracking Jose Arriaga since he was 4 years old, waiting for the day he would start ninth grade. This fall, Jose is a freshman at Booker T. Washington High School, a selective...
View ArticleThe Online College That's Helping Undocumented Students
Federal law does not prohibit undocumented students from enrolling in college, but it does something nearly as effective, banning them from receiving government aid. In recent years, though, some...
View ArticleWith Campus Racism, How Can College Presidents Get it Right?
Tim Wolfe is not the first college administrator to come under fire for responding poorly to campus racism. And Wolfe, until this week the head of the University of Missouri system, isn't likely to be...
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