Policy & Reform
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Home-schooling families oppose Common Core
Even though they are not required to follow them, home-schooling parents across the country are quickly becoming the loudest voices in the call to ... -
K-12 Writing Standards: What Will it Take to Improve Them?
While global communication has grown and improved by leaps and bounds in the past two decades, the same cannot be said for K-12 writing ... -
How Smart Schools Are Stretching their Budgets through Gifts-in-Kind
Note: The following guest post comes to us courtesy of Gary C. Smith, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association for ... -
Year-Round Schooling: How it would Help Minority Students
In my previous two posts, I’ve emphasized the need for all American K-12 schools to transition to a year-round school calendar. I’ve highlighted and ... -
Should Ethnic Studies be a High School Requirement?
This fall, the Los Angeles Unified School District voted on measures to make it mandatory for high school students to take an Ethnic Studies ... -
Should parents be prosecuted for tardy kids?
Last week the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that parents cannot be charged criminally for children who are tardy to school, no matter how excessive ... -
48 percent of Americans happy with public education
Nearly half of American adults are pleased with the operation of the K-12 public school system in the nation. A recently released Gallup poll ... -
Sexting: What K-12 Schools Should Know
A guest post by Suzanne Bogdan Sexting among today’s youth is a problem that is becoming increasingly prevalent, and that many schools and parents ...
