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Standardized Tests Show Decline in Academic Achievement Before Pandemic Lockdowns
On the most recent (NAEP), or “nation’s report card,” test scores in both reading and math declined for 13-year-old students, the first drop registered...
Use Federal Aid on Students, Not Unions
By Chantal Lovell
Editor’s note: This column is an expansion of a piece the author previously published in CalMatters on July 22, 2021. You can...
Public Schools Gush Over Equality but Neglect Poor Kids, Students of Color
By Dave Trabert
School boards across the nation are gushing over their devotion to equality and their determination to stamp out racism, but until they...
Coalition Formed to Push Federal Stimulus Spending Directly to Wisconsin Students
By Benjamin Yount
(The Center Square) – Supporters of the latest plan to spend nearly $2 billion in federal stimulus money on schools in Wisconsin...
As Florida Students Prepare for Spring Tests, Parents and Lawmakers Have Reservations
By John Haughey
(The Center Square) – In a survey of 378 parents of Florida schoolchildren, 63 percent want standardized K-12 testing canceled this spring...
Why Action Civics Is More Action Than Civics: K-12 Students Aren’t Ready to Be...
By Hance Winingham and Jonathan Butcher
Educators and policymakers agree that the teaching of civics in K-12 schools is not preparing children to participate in...
Commentary: ESA Bill Would Provide Timely Help to Georgia’s Low-Income, Special Needs, and Bullied...
Legislation in the Georgia House of Representatives has been recently introduced that would establish an education savings account (ESA) program for low-income students (those in families...
Academic Achievement Has Crashed, NAEP Shows. Here’s Why.
The latest bad education news comes to us courtesy of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
The most recent exam was administered to high...
Keep Focus on Student Learning in Educator Evaluations
When it comes to evaluating the job that teachers are doing, a supervisor’s discretion should mean something, but it shouldn’t mean everything.
Michigan has struggled...
Student Standardized Testing Merits Questioned in Tennessee Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Several Democratic state lawmakers are calling for Gov. Bill Lee to suspend teacher evaluations for the year and reconsider standardized testing after Lee’s announced he would...
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New York School Spending Led All US by Record Margin in 2021-22
Public elementary and secondary school spending in New York hit a new record high of $29,873 per pupil in 2021-22, according to the Census Bureau’s...
Tennessee Gov. Says He’ll Sign Bill to Let Some Teachers and Staff Carry Guns...
Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday he will sign legislation to let some teachers and staff go armed in Tennessee public schools.
“Districts have the option...
Robert Genetski: Disappointing Inflation News
Robert Genetski: Disappointing inflation news, rise in interest rates, stocks decline this week, and Fed will likely keep buying $95 billion a month in...
