Florida's Schools Have Become a High-Stakes Experiment in Classroom Policing
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Will a hiring surge for school police and renewed zeal for zero tolerance policies undo years of declining youth arrests in Florida?
On Monday, the Arizona Department of Education released its recommendations to help guide school districts and charter schools as they craft their own plans to reopen schools.
Amidst the death and suffering arising from the coronavirus crisis, people have an opportunity to ponder some important questions about life and liberty. One question arises in the context of when state and local officials should force children back
Amidst the death and suffering arising from the coronavirus crisis, people have an opportunity to ponder some important questions about life and liberty.
If you've been wondering what it will look like when the kids go back to school, one school has released their new guidelines and they're absolutely shocking.
Early America had widespread literacy and a vibrant culture of learning.
In an editorial, the Los Angeles Times is celebrating a decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that a good education is a constitutional right and, therefore, that states have a legal duty to provide it to children.
Teachers at government schools have raised their concerns that the recent closure of their institutions will have a damaging effect on students.
Harvard Law Prof: Homeschooling Dangerous, Parents Should Not Have 24/7 Control Over Their Children
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says schools to remain closed for rest of academic year but eases some coronavirus restrictions
On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Education directed staff to present a plan to give all San Francisco public students A grades. No incompletes. Just A grades, in the face of the COVID-19 lockdown.
In the debate over the future of public schooling in the U.S., charter schools may show the way forward.
COVID-19 will bring about an education reevaluation, if not revolution.
A recent report by Chris Stewart has shed new light on some of the educational problems faced by black youth.
My heart goes out to all the parents who were never planning to homeschool, but nevertheless find themselves teaching their children at home today.
...non-emergency surgeries are cancelled and bars and restaurants could be CLOSED as coronavirus cases in the city hit 326 with five deaths
To compete with robots, we need an education model that nurtures human imagination and ingenuity.
Homeschoolers reduce public education costs by $22 billion a year.
It would be virtually impossible to find a better example of socialism here in the United States than the public schooling systems that exist in every U.S. state.
A family from Colorado is fighting a medical bill for thousands of dollars for their teenage daughter which they say was never authorized.
The Seattle School Board recently deemed inequality - too few minorities - in their gifted children program to be more important than nurturing the abilities of these intellectually talented kids. They propose to consign these high achievers to class
"Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning."--Investigative journalist
Tax funded public education in Brooklyn New York is teaching minor students heavy duty indoctrination on social political issues.
It would be virtually impossible to find a better example of socialism here in the United States than the public schooling systems that exist in every U.S. state.
Many of these young men are residents of Vermont's "tuition towns." Too small and sparsely populated to support a traditional public school, these towns distribute government education funds to parents, who choose the educational experience tha
California's Governor Gavin Newsom wants to turn a generation of kids into obese adults, that by the time 2050 rolls around, these hopeless folks will be wheeled around in self-balancing strollers, first popularized in the animated film Wall-E.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that America's public school systems are in perpetual crisis. That's what socialism does. It produces crises or what the economist Ludwig von Mises called "planned chaos."
Senator Elizabeth Warren today laid out her process for nominating a new Secretary of Education if elected, providing a glimpse into her educational priorities ahead of the first Democratic primary contest next week.
I am a glass-half-full kind of person, so while we could focus on the criticisms and some of the setbacks related to expanding educational freedom to more families, there is much more to celebrate than to lament.
Smartphones continue to be one of the biggest distractions that teachers of all levels have to deal with in the classroom.