Education Jun 10 California judge strikes down teacher protections in landmark case Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu struck down multiple California laws providing job protections for the state’s public school teachers, calling them unconstitutional, reports KPCC in Los Angeles. The lawsuit was filed in 2012 by Student…
Education May 30 More state legislatures jumping Common Core ship The Common Core standards for math and English could be out in two more states. State legislatures in Oklahoma and South Carolina have sent bills to their governors’ desks to withdraw from the standards, which have been adopted by…
Education May 28 Computer science’s diversity gap starts early When Vanessa Hurst graduated from college in 2008 she became part of a rare breed: women who hold bachelor’s degrees in computer science. In the U.S. in 2001, 27.6 percent of bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer science went to women,…
Nation May 22 Death of Philly first grader at school leads to calls for nurses, funding A Philadelphia first grader collapsed in his classroom at Andrew Jackson Elementary School in South Philadelphia Wednesday and died two hours later, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. The 7-year-old boy was the second student to die in the…
Education May 22 Have resegregation trends changed your high school? Use our searchable database to see how these trends are playing out in your high school.
Education May 16 Have we abandoned the goals of Brown v. Board of Education? When 17-year-old Jessica Black walks to school, the neighbors she sees mirror her city’s diversity. There are white, Asian, black and interracial families living on her block in Washington, D.C. But at Calvin Coolidge High School, where she is a…
Education May 06 Selective colleges no more likely to produce satisfied grads How happy college graduates are in their workplaces and with their lives doesn’t depend on where they got their degree, according to a national survey out Tuesday from Gallup and Purdue University. The idea, the report’s authors say, was to…
Education Apr 24 Teacher evaluations without student test scores cost Washington waiver from school sanctions Washington is the first state to lose its waiver from the No Child Left Behind requirement. Washington was among the 43 states and the District of Columbia that the Department of Education freed since 2011 from sanctions placed on schools…
Education Apr 22 Percentage of Americans with college degrees rises, paying for degrees tops financial challenges Nearly 40 percent of working-aged Americans now hold a college degree, according to a new report from the Lumina Foundation.
Education Apr 18 Michigan students march to end ‘zero tolerance’ approach to school discipline About 150 Michigan students, parents and educators plan to take the 90-mile trip from Detroit to the state’s capital in Lansing Monday through Wednesday to protest schools’ zero-tolerance discipline policies. That may not seem like much of an undertaking –…