Everyone who cares about racial justice should be focused on doing what’s best for students and their learning—not on school buildings or the employment impact of closing some of them.
By now, we’re well familiar with critiques of standardized testing opponents: tests rob schools of critical instructional time, encourage teaching to the test, place undue pressure on students and educators to perform, are educationally irrelevant, only provide a snapshot of student achievement at a specific moment in time, and are largely driven by family income levels, parents’ education, and
According to a Goldman Sachs analysis of federal data, the college graduating class of 2024 is having a tough time finding attractive jobs.
School closures and remote learning led to widespread relaxation of student accountability at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Lax requirements to turn in work, fewer graded assignments, and—most perniciously—policies mandating “no zeros” or “no failing grades” were adopted (or accelerated) to lighten the load of young people whose worlds had been turned upside down.
A new study on emergency teacher licensure concludes that formal training does indeed matter. —Heather Peske, NCTQ Governor Josh Shapiro’s potential as Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick has placed his uneven support for school choice under scrutiny from both left and right.
