Category: Current News

Here’s your first Friday News Roundup for 2024! It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber (The Atlantic) A few weeks ago The Atlantic reported that, “For the past few years, parents, researchers, and the news media have paid closer attention to the relationship between teenagers’ phone use and their mental health. Researchers such…

It’s Friday. Time for the News Roundup. Six Hidden (and Not-So-Hidden) Factors Driving America’s Student Absenteeism Crisis (The 74) Schools continue to struggle getting kids to show up to their classrooms. The 74 online reported this week, “As schools continue to recover form the pandemic, there’s one troubling COVID symptom they can’t seem to shake:…

It’s Friday, and here’s your News Roundup. Schooling vs. Learning: How Lax Standards Hurt the Lowest-Performing Students (The 74) According to author Chad Aldeman, writing in this week’s The 74 online, “If someone I care about has a piece of food stuck in their teeth, or a tag is sticking out the back of their…

It’s Friday. Time for the News Roundup. ‘I Used to Think School Systems Were Broken’: Educators Reflect (EducationWeek) Recently EducationWeek online printed responses from a group of Harvard University future systems leaders to this prompt – “I Used to Think…and Now I Think…” Richard Elmore, the late Harvard education professor, started this response practice while…

It’s Friday! Time for the Roundup. ‘Time is Running Out’: COVID-19 Set Back Older Students the Most, Study Finds (The 74) According to The 74 online, “Middle- and high-school students, who have the least time to catch up before they leave the K-12 system, may be suffering the most as school emerge from the COVID-19…

Here’s your Friday News Roundup. Brazosport ISD Is Training Its Own Teachers. The Program Might Become a Model for Other Texas Schools (The Texas Tribune) The Texas Tribune reported earlier this week that, “The Brazosport Independent School District is always in need of more teacher – and for a long time, it wasn’t able to…

It’s Friday. Time for The Roundup. With No New Funding From the State, Texas Schools are Breaking the Bank to Pay for Teacher Raises (The Texas Tribune) Earlier this week The Texas Tribune reported that, “Texas lawmakers ended this year’s regular legislative session without giving public schools any money for employee raises – so school…

Here’s your Friday News Roundup – A Tinseltown High School Where the Syllabus is Light, Props and Makeup (The 74) “L.A.’s celebrity-back Royhal Film and Television Production Magnet program seeks to link minority students to behind-the-scenes jobs in TV and film.” Celebrities like George Clooney, Don Cheadle, and Mindy Kaling have invested in this school,…

It’s Friday. Time for the News Roundup. Generation Meh: Students Give Schools Middling Marks, Gallup Poll Finds (The 74) What’s that old saying? “The customers never wrong?” Well, if that is true, then the American public education system is nothing more than mediocre to a majority of students inside schools right now. According to The…