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Tag: schools
Pa. school district sued for treatment of LGBT+ students
The Central Bucks School District is one of the wealthiest school systems in Pennsylvania. That will come in handy since the district is paying a lawyer $940 an hour to […]
Closing schools during the pandemic was bad
Keeping them all open would have been worse by Michael Hiltzik If there’s one aspect of pandemic policy that seems to have elicited agreement across the political spectrum, it’s that […]
‘They suck’: W.Va.’s math, reading test scores disappoint
West Virginia State School Board President Paul Hardesty, during an interview on Talkline, was blunt in his assessment of the just-released National Assessment of Educational Progress test results for our […]
Teaching students to scrutinize fact from fiction online
A new Illinois law allows high schools to teach media literacy to students in all subjects. In case skeptics are tempted to portray this as some kind of underground conspiracy […]
What happens when local gov’t has to beg the state for funds
The humanitarian crisis that was (and still is) Jackson, Miss., exemplifies what happens when infrastructure is starved of funds — and when local governments have to try to beg for […]
Pandemic’s role in school bullying
by Maureen Downey ATLANTA — Students lost more than academic skills to the pandemic; they also lost social skills needed to navigate positive relationships with peers. Parents and educators report […]
Teachers deserve our respect, support
Recently, I wrote a commentary about how our public education system in West Virginia is failing to achieve the state constitutional requirement of providing a “thorough and efficient” system of […]
Class is in session
Yesterday, students stepped off the bus for the first time this year — some of them for the first time ever. They made the first of hundreds of journeys through […]
As a white teen, I got second chances
Many of my Black students today do not by Adam Schwartz When I was 15, I smoked a joint with a friend. High and goofy, we wandered into a grocery […]
