Category: Current News
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Friday News Roundup…
Here’s the Friday News Roundup for June 17, 2022 Advice for Principals: Empower Your Teachers (Education Week) “The best thing principals can do to support their teachers is to empower them to teach. Yes, of course, it is also important to provide systems, professional development, and to be a strong leader. But what good is…
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Friday News Roundup…
It’s Friday! Time for the news roundup… Texas Republicans Want to Arm More School Employees, But Few Districts are Opting In (The Texas Tribune) Governor Greg Abbott Instructs School Safety Officials to Conduct “Unannounced, Random Intruder” Audits of Texas Public Schools (The Texas Tribune) “Since Texas launched the school marshal program in 2013, just 84…
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Friday News Roundup…
It’s Friday! Time for the news roundup! ‘We Beg You. Do Something’: Principals Who Lived Through Shootings Plead for Action (EdWeek) “Current and former principals who experienced shootings in their school have issued a plea to lawmakers at all levels of government to “Do something. Do anything” to keep “our educators and our kids from…
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Weavers to the Rescue?
I came across an interesting new movement recently. It’s called Weave: The Social Fabric Project and it was started by New York Times columnist David Brooks and the Aspen Institute in 2018. The project seeks to mend the broken social trust that has left Americans divided along many lines. Over the past four years, the…
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Friday News Roundup…
It’s Friday! Time for the news roundup. Oakland’s New Opportunity Ticket Gives Students in Failing Schools a Shot at Attending Its Most Sought-After Ones (The 74) I mentioned this lottery program in yesterday’s column. This past March, the Oakland (CA) Unified School District board approved a plan to offer spots to some of their most…
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Kids Can’t Be in Places Called School Any Longer
I’m back from Spain, and I wish I was coming back to a better America. This morning I listened to a mother describe how her daughter survived the horrible Uvalde, Texas school shooting this week. According to the mom, her daughter curled up in a ball and felt like she was having a heart attack.…
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Friday News Roundup…
It’s Friday the 13th. Time for the news roundup. Fuller: Biden’s New Charter School Rules Are an Assault on the Right of Families of Color to Choose the Best Education for Their Children (The 74) I don’t know Howard Fuller well, but I’ve always respected his opinions when it comes to public education and why…
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A New Learning System by 2023? It’s Possible
The 2021-22 school year is coming to an end. Students, teachers, and administrators are all looking forward to a relaxing summer. But the 2022-23 school year looms as an unknown when it comes to what’s possible, like another COVID-19 variant disrupting teaching and learning, more teachers resigning or retiring from their positions, principals quitting because…
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Best of the Best – School’s Out: Liberated Parents
In September of 2018, I was asked to write an article for Education Reimagined, focusing on the liberated role of parents if schools suddenly didn’t exist, or didn’t exist as a near monopoly like today. The article was part of a series title “School’s Out.” Today, as part of ABPTL’s Best of the Best series,…
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You Can Lead a Horse to Water…
Compulsory education laws have been around since 1852, when Massachusetts became the first state to pass a bill that required public school attendance. These laws were originally put in place to improve literacy rates but also to discourage widespread child labor practices of the 19th and early 20th centuries. I think it’s time to get…
A Better Path to Learning 