Indiana Looks to Swiss Experts to Create Thousands of Student Apprenticeships
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The Reckoning Has Come for K-12 Sex Abuse, and You the Taxpayer Are on the Hook
James Varney | August 9, 2024 (RealClearInvestigations) — The teenage female athletes at California’s Pomona High School said they felt special when a handful of coaches there took them under their wing, spending more time with them than others, providing extra encouragement, sharing personal stories and, sometimes, seemingly harmless flirtatious talk. One track team member
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REPORT: Middle Schoolers Remain a Full Year Behind
Brendan Clarey | July 26, 2024 (Chalkboard News) — An education organization that administers a nationwide assessment has found that students are still not performing as well as they were immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic and that students’ achievement gap worsened in the 2023-24 school year as compared to before COVID. NWEA, which issues the
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‘RECALIBRATION’: AP Test Scores Double in Some Subjects
Adam Wittenberg | July 25, 2024 (The Lion) — What came first, the chicken or the egg? That seems to be the question with the College Board “recalibrating” Advanced Placement (AP) test scores in the midst of college grade inflation. But experts worry that other factors are at play, such as a push for “social
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As Teachers Exit Unions, Alternative Organizations Offer Resources
Brendan Clarey | July 24, 2024 (Chalkboard News) — Thousands of teachers have left their unions in recent years, and alternative organizations are offering services as alternatives to those provided by the largest teachers unions: the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The Freedom Foundation announced this week that it will be
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