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 their schools’ doors, took the first walk of thousands down the long hallways and sat down in the first of dozens of desks as ...
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 store in D.C. where I unsealed a bag of Pepperidge Farm cookies and started crunching away. My friend — worried about going home ...
West Virginia’s Supreme Court has taken over consideration of whether a scholarship for students leaving the public school system violates the state constitution. A majority of justices rejected a motion to stay a lower court’s decision to halt the Hope Scholarship, but the Supreme ...
We have an obligation to search for truth We are too immature as a society to be trusted with social media. We jump to conclusions. We spread false information. We fall for the proverbial snake-oil salesmen. We are our own worst enemies. Former Democratic presidential candidate ...
by Bill Welker I was a product of the public school system. It was a positive experience that I will always cherish. But times have changed dramatically since my school days. In recent decades, I have observed the decline of educational progress in our public school systems. The ...
Marion County announced this week that it plans to add facial recognition technology to its schools in the near future, in partnership with Rank One Computing. The idea behind the upgrade is to use the tech — which matches the facial features of a visitor to a database of images to identify ...