Jan 03 Nationwide, state budget cuts disproportionately hit low-income, minority college students By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report States are disproportionately subsidizing schools whose students are wealthier, whiter… Continue reading
Dec 30 Few women run the nation's school districts. Why? By Denisa R. Superville, Education Week Even though K-12 education is largely a female enterprise, men dominate the chief executive's office in numbers that look especially bleak given that the pool of talent is deep with women. Continue reading
Dec 27 More teachers' union leaders come out against new student-discipline policies By Emmanuel Felton, Education Week Teachers in Fresno, California, and Des Moines, Iowa, have come out against their districts' efforts--following similar announcements in New York and Indianapolis--to reform how students are disciplined. Teachers are arguing that efforts to change student-disciplinary practices—largely in an attempt to… Continue reading
Dec 26 Q&A: Can teaching about religion reduce intolerance? By Victoria Pasquantonio While the courts banned schools from preaching about religion decades ago, most school districts in the U.S. require students to learn about the world’s religions, a fact that most Americans don't know. Linda K. Wertheimer traveled across the country to… Continue reading
Dec 21 Bridging the town and gown divide By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report In a time of falling trust, colleges are reaching out to bridge the class and cultural divides that often exist between them and the surrounding neighborhood. Continue reading
Dec 14 Students have struggled with fake news for longer than you think By Benjamin Herold, Education Week For schools, media literacy is an “enduring issue” that predates social media and the internet, said Lawrence Paska of the National Council for the Social Studies. Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch 8:20 What international teens think about school in America By PBS News Hour International education tests offer one measure for how countries around the world compare academically. But test scores aside, how do academic approaches differ in America compared to the rest of the world? Special correspondent Kavitha Cardoza of Education Week speaks… Continue watching
Dec 13 Column: Most teens can't tell fake from real news By Sam Wineburg, Sarah McGrew In the age of so-called fake news, students would benefit by learning the strategies fact-checkers use to evaluate online information. Continue reading
Dec 05 Risking political pushback, private colleges enroll undocumented students By Timothy Pratt, The Hechinger Report Universities and colleges, some of which announced new policies on undocumented students only in the last few months, are now noisy with marches, protests and petitions demanding that these policies survive the Trump administration and that campuses be turned into… Continue reading
Dec 02 Watch 7:37 Cuban attitudes toward Castro range from devout to cynical By PBS News Hour, Nick Schifrin In the week following Fidel Castro’s death, reactions have been mixed among those who remember his reign or are still influenced by it. For many, Castro was a symbol of Cuba's hope, following the Batista dictatorship, for strong leadership in… Continue watching