Policy & Reform
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Study: U.S. teachers are absent too many days
A study from the National Council on Teacher Quality looked at teacher attendance for over 234,000 teachers in 40 districts during the 2012-13 school ... -
How Common Core levels the K-12 playing field
By Matthew Lynch Inequality of resources and opportunities for American K-12 children runs rampant and effects every member of society. When children are not ... -
Single-Sex Classrooms Making a Comeback for All the Wrong Reasons
There is a debate about equity in education that extends beyond zip codes, race and socioeconomic status and cuts right to the heart of ... -
Why do fewer black students get identified as gifted?
Jason A. Grissom, Vanderbilt University Nationally, black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in gifted programs, which provide specialized instruction or other services to meet ... -
6 Ways to Reform Teacher Education
As contemporary K-12 students change their learning styles and expectations for their educations, teachers need to change too. More specifically, the education that teachers ... -
Future Trends in K-12 Classroom Management and Discipline
K-12 Classroom management and discipline is all about the balance between learning within the classroom and discipline. Today, various trends are currently popular. Strategies ... -
Cops in Washington believe that preschool leads to crime prevention
According tdn.com, police officers in Cowlitz County in Washington believe that by expanding preschool may help reduce or prevent crime. Cops were visiting schools ... -
U.S. graduation rates at record high
The U.S Department of Education announced this week that the high school graduation rate reached another record high of 82 percent in the 2013-14 ... -
How to Create and Sustain Educational Change
By Matthew Lynch When it comes to creating and launching school reform, the most critical question administrators must confront is: where do we begin? ... -
3 Reasons Today’s Students Might Be Worse Off than Their Parents
The great dream of all parents is that their children will grow up to have even better life circumstances than they do. Parents want ...