As NJ Lowers Math Standards, Fewer Students Can Handle College-Level Work
A year ago, a report from the University of California San Diego made major waves when it showed that a rising share of its incoming freshmen had math skills that were below the high school level.…
Was this problem unique to that particular college?
Or perhaps to California?
In partnership with The Collaborative for Student Success, I set out t…
‘Bucks County, USA’ Sees School Board Fights As Reflection of a Nation Divided
Over the past few years, a suburban Philadelphia school district has become a flashpoint for nearly every fault line in America’s school culture wars, with a lawsuit and federal civil rights investigation alleging discrimination against LGBTQ students and a library book-review policy quietly shaped by a Christian nationalist advocacy group.…
School board meetings have regularly dissolved into shouting matches, …
A new five-part documentary, Bucks County, USA, trains its lens on tho…
Co-directed by Barry Levinson and Robert May, the series zeroes in on …
Opinion: Student Newspapers Impart Critical Skills. The Nation Needs More of Them
“Portrait of a Graduate,” embraced by 26 states, describes essential skills that high school students should master, including thinking critically, communicating clearly and engaging as citizens.…
As school districts nationwide grapple with this new vision of what it…
Unfortunately, student newspapers are increasingly rare.
A national study found that fewer than half of high schools had studen…
Ohio’s Next Education Fight Could Be Over How Kids Learn Math
Ohio officials are tackling the math struggles of students with an effort resembling its science of reading push, but have yet to deal with perhaps the most fundamental issue — how instruction should change.…
That decision won’t come until next April when the Ohio Department of …
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As States Crack Down, Autism Therapy Providers Target Lawmakers — and Schools
For most of its existence, the autism therapy known as applied behavior analysis, or ABA, has relied on armies of parents — eager to share heartrending stories of the transformation it could bring about in their children’s lives — to lobby state lawmakers to require insurance coverage and other benefits.…
The coverage mandates these parents helped secure have driven hundreds…
Over the last decade, the ready flow of cash has attracted private equ…
Through cost cutting and other restructuring methods, these short-term…
How Parents in Boulder, Colorado, Rewrote the Rules on Autism Therapy in School
Jenny Thamer had low hopes for the meeting called by the superintendent of the Boulder Valley School District to hear from families of autistic students.…
From her experience, such so-called listening sessions are often pro f…
This one had been called hastily, after a handful of caregivers had co…
The meeting was scheduled for the day after Memorial Day, after the en…
Opinion: Trump Administration’s English-Only Head Start Edict is Bad for Young Learners
For 61 years, Head Start has served both as the United States’ largest early care and education system and one of its most successful, tangible commitments to children living in poverty and those from historically underserved communities.…
The program has served around 40 million children and families in ever…
It also supports their families to become healthy, well, socioeconomic…
The impacts have been short-term, long-term, and even intergenerationa…
Superintendent Churn Comes With a Cost for Students
Compton, California Fifteen years ago, the challenge of leading the Compton Unified School District would have scared off even the most confident education leader.…
Darin Brawley almost passed it over.
The urban system, just off one of Los Angeles’ major freeways, was hea…
When the opening was posted, “I thought, ‘Compton, I don’t want to be …
Report: How Gen-Z Views School and What a Sense of Belonging Means to Them
When a 20-year-old New Yorker recently reflected on her high school experience, she said the things she learned weren’t “very helpful to where I am now.…
” “I don’t really think most of my classes that I took in high school …
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Proposed Head Start Changes Could Cut Jobs, Raise Family Costs, Analysis Shows
A little over a month after the Trump administration debuted its proposal to dramatically reduce Head Start standards, a clearer picture is emerging of what those changes might mean for the 1,600 local programs across the country and the families they serve.…
Nationwide, nearly 40,000 Head Start jobs could be cut, affecting the …
The analysis draws from projections made by the U.
Department of Health and Human Services in its proposed rule, “Reducin…