4 Ways States Are Trying to Fix How They Fund Schools Texas is grappling with whether schools should get funding based on how many students are enrolled or their average attendance. Connecticut lawmakers want more dollars to support high-need students in magnet programs and charter schools. The newly elected governor of Nebraska is proposing that…
Month: March 2023
Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Continues to Spur More Extreme
Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Continues to Spur More Extreme Versions Nationwide Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis displays the signed Parental Rights in Education, the so called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, flanked by elementary school students during a news conference last March at Classical Preparatory School in Shady Hills, Fla. Forty two bills have been introduced…
A Charter Academy Delivering a ‘Classical’ Education Grows in Popularity
A Charter Academy Delivering a ‘Classical’ Education Grows in Popularity Great Hearts Academy launched, in 2001, with 130 students. Today, it operates 33 classical K-12 schools serving more than 25,000 students in Arizona and Texas. At a time when there’s a lot of interest in classic liberal arts school models, and with Great Hearts seeking…
Teaching the Complicated Legacies of the Founding Fathers
Teaching the Complicated Legacies of the Founding Fathers Pedro Noguera, the dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, and I have a podcast (Common Ground: Conversations on Schooling) in which we dig into our disagreements and seek to identify common ground on some of education’s thorniest questions. I thought readers might…
Tips and Cautions for Educators and Policymakers
Tips and Cautions for Educators and Policymakers From Influential Scholars Last month, we ran the 2023 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. The exercise involves identifying 200 of the nation’s most influential education scholars and provides a useful chance to take their temperature on some big questions relating to research, practice, and policy. In that spirit,…
You Can Teach About Climate Change in Every Subject and Grade Level
You Can Teach About Climate Change in Every Subject and Grade Level. Here’s How That line of thinking hasn’t caught on with all teachers, though: When a nationally representative EdWeek Research Center survey asked why they haven’t addressed climate change or issues related to it with students, 26 percent of teachers said they can’t think…
The Top Issues for District Leaders in 2023
The Top Issues for District Leaders in 2023 COVID-19 continued to take its toll on districts, on top of students’ urgent academic and mental health needs. Divisive political debates overtook school board meetings and staffing shortages hamstrung some schools’ operations. Districts facing talent shortages and supply chain problems struggled to spend a windfall of federal…
How to Get Rid of Discipline Disparities for Students of Color
How to Get Rid of Discipline Disparities for Students of Color What are strategies schools can implement to reduce and eliminate disparities in discipline affecting students of color? Racial and gender disparities, as well as the damages associated with them, in school disciplinary proceedings have been broadly documented for decades. The issues surrounding the disproportionality…