Education News Nuggets
I wonder if research on absenteeism in elementary school takes a factor like this one into account.?
I wonder if research on absenteeism in elementary school takes a factor like this one into account.?
?When a teacher teaches, the school system does not regulate that speech as much as it hires that speech. Expression is a teacher's stock in trade, the commodity she sells to her employer in exchange for a salary.
The National Education Association has just settled an eight-year-old lawsuit, filed against it in Washington State, which accused the union of illegally using money to ?support initiative campaigns.?
Charter schools ?were a punching bag? at a recent ?education forum? in Brooklyn. ?Charter schools are all about money,? said one parent in attendance. They are? ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Paul Tough interviews Bill Gates for Parade magazine. ?Among the revelations: last year, while traveling for several months, Gates and his wife homeschooled their three school-age children.
A recent ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati concluded that teachers' in-classroom curricular decisions are not protected by the First Amendment.?
Since improving low-performing, inner-city schools is arguably the chief education challenge presently facing policymakers and the nation, one might expect education school professors to emphasize teaching strategies as they relate to disadvantaged and struggling students. But as our?
Rick Hess summons the ghosts of Bernie Madoff to illustrate the obscene? ?deal? that?
This fall, fourth-graders throughout Virginia opened their history textbooks, Our Virginia: Past and Present, to the following passage on the Civil War: