Category: Current News

It’s the Friday before July 4th. Time for the News Roundup and then some vacation. Here we go. Analysis: Many Districts Doing Less This Summer to Make Up for Lost Learning (The 74) According to a recent article in The 74, “Despite national attention on bolstering summer school options for students who lost learning time…

I recently came across a report submitted to Congress by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) titled “As Students Struggled to Learn, Teachers Reported Few Strategies as Particularly Helpful to Mitigate Learning Loss.” The report was published by the GAO last May. The GAO found that “During the 2020-21 school year, students in all grade levels,…

A group of American Enterprise Institutute’s researchers recently released the Return to Learn Tracker, a way for traditional districts to estimate the level of student learning loss in their schools. According to The 74, “Back when districts wrote their ESSER plans (the federal government’s COVID relief initiative,) most didn’t have the information we have today.…

I noticed Education Reimagined, a Washington D.C.-based group committed to a different learning system for our young people, released a new resource titled The Big Idea. According to ER, “The Big Idea is designed to spark new conversations and inspire people to imagine a world of thriving learner-centered ecosystems. We are eager to grow the…

It’s Friday! Time for the Roundup. Let’s get to it. ‘The World Feels Less Stable’: Educators’ Sense of School Safety Right Now (EducationWeek) “Four in 10 educators feel less safe in their schools now than they did five years ago, according to a new survey by the EdWeek Research Center. School shootings factor heavily into…

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…

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…

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…