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Why aren't kids going to school? COVID taught them some bad habits. ... COVID-19 learning loss was most severe for disadvantaged students, and so too is chronic absenteeism.
Some advocates and politicians have used those disruptions to argue that all this school choice and markets stuff of the past two decades is too much trouble ... In other words, it’s hard to make bad ...
School choice Florida has led to a large drop in public school enrollment that is forcing the closure of schools. This is a feature of school choice, not a bug. Click here - to use the wp menu builder ...
With most school districts announcing their intent to return to class on Monday, Jan. 13 — including the largest, Los Angeles Unified School District — we will no longer be updating this story.
Students struggle with agency. Without it, it’s hard to accomplish anything, learning-wise. As part of a recent series on “Teaching Gen Z,” at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Beckie Supiano and ...
Bullying, hate speech in schools is already bad. It will worsen in second Trump era. What if President Donald Trump is normalizing hate speech so much that students don’t know when they’re ...
Beyond the pedagogic, enacting a system-wide ban on cell phones in NYC schools is costly and impractical, at a time when our schools can’t afford either.The cost of the hardware (typically Yondr ...
About 60 % of the property tax goes to schools. How about using the Education Enhancement Trust to help fund schools. In 2023 this fund had over 25 million dollars which is a 6.7 % increase over ...
The Department of Natural Resources loves to repeat its “But it funds our schools” line. This is seemingly the strongest stratagem for saving face over the fact that it has been found in ...
Some of their criticisms are valid. But history doesn’t really support the idea that an elected school committee will fix anything. Since 1991, the seven-member School Committee has been ...