The current system of residential assignment carries a lot of baggage. It also forces families into boxes where their largest investments (i.e., homes) are intrinsically tied to a single public school. This structure lacks the flexibility that should be afforded to students and their parents, especially as K–12 education is a deeply personal experience.
I still remember my elementary music teacher roaming the halls, pushing a cart overflowing with tambourines, recorders, and sheet music. This vibrant world was threatened, however, when I was in fourth grade as the district began discussing cuts to our music program.
High school graduation is often treated as the pivotal moment when one becomes an adult. But for many young people today, adulthood unfolds unevenly over time, through a mix of work, further education, financial pressure, stalled plans, and gradual independence.
The scandal of the season is not a whispered romance, a poorly executed quadrille, or even a duel at dawn. A most alarming development has captured the attention of Queen Charlotte, her ladies-in-waiting, and of schoolmasters across the Republic. Artificial intelligence, we are told, has entered the classroom.
The Trump team’s dismantlement of the U.S. Department of Education continues apace, indeed has now reached the very top of the organization.
“Contestant number one, your word is chungus.” “Can you please use it in a sentence?” “Sure,” she says, holding back a laugh. “I love my big chungus life.”
Rapidly growing numbers of Ohio students attain industry recognized credentials during high school, reflecting recent policy incentives that encourage their attainment. Our latest report examines the college and workforce outcomes of Ohio students who earn such credentials.
Every year, schools invest immense sums of money in sports programs to cultivate the performance of students who show extraordinary athletic promise.
As teachers embrace and incorporate AI tools, the technology poses a number of risks. But there is also hope that forward-thinking teachers may uncover replicable, scalable strategies for deploying it to make the job more manageable and free up time to build the relationships with students that matter so much for learning.
At this year’s SXSW EDU conference, the startup Apprentos stole the show, winning the “Launch Competition” with a slick pitch promising to “de-risk” apprenticeships for employers.
For teachers, artificial intelligence can be a boon as well as a challenge.
School leaders, teachers, and state policymakers all work to provide information to parents about the quality of education in their schools and about their own children’s academic performance. How do parents receive and—if needed—act on the information provided?
Only a quarter of Texas eighth graders go on to earn a degree or certificate six years after high school. As a former eighth grade teacher, I can’t help but think of my former students seeing these data.
Bibb Hubbard, founder and CEO of Learning Heroes, joins the Education Gadfly
This Thursday, the Montgomery County (Maryland) School Board is slated to vote on a proposal that would begin to address a long-festering problem in the state’s largest school district. The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) system is, as a whole, wonderfully diverse, and yet for too long, many of its individual schools have been highly segregated.
The Trump administration has been shifting programs from the Department of Education to other parts of the federal government. This may be driven by politics, but it raises an intriguing question. What if the real issue is not whether the Department of Education survives intact, but whether some federal education programs might actually work better outside it?
The rise of AI has caused anxiety about the future of writing instruction. If the technology can write—or help people write—quickly and coherently on nearly any topic, and will likely get better and better at this, do we still need to teach students how to write?
Next month, my 11-year-old will join her classmates to take the state assessment.
In recent years, states and especially districts have turned to financial incentives to encourage high-performing
“We spend too much time on testing,” is a lament we hear often among Idaho educators. Surely it is a national sentiment as well.
Please don’t call a local public school a “government school.” It is part of the community, and it and its peers are worth celebrating, conserving, and cherishing, now and for years to come.
