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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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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Brendan Clarey | May 13, 2024 (Chalkboard News) — A recent lawsuit filed against the Biden administration says a Christian student in Arkansas who refuses to use a transgender person’s pronouns could face harm under the sweeping changes to the federal anti-discrimination law governing educational institutions. A new lawsuit filed Tuesday by six state attorney
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Brendan Clarey | May 9, 2024 (Chalkboard News) — A Republican-led congressional committee asked school leaders whose districts have seen antisemitic incidents about what they’re doing to prevent further incidents in their schools since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. Leaders of schools in New York City and Berkeley, California and Montgomery County,
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Scholar Behind the Term Is Also Credited With Founding CRT Brendan Clarey | April 22, 2024 (Chalkboard News) — School districts with diversity, equity and inclusion departments and organizations or individuals that offer professional development may use the term “intersectionality” on their websites, but what does it mean and what relationship does it have to
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Math, reading and science get high marks from likely voters who are divided on teaching critical race theory Brendan Clarey | April 5, 2024 (Chalkboard News) — A poll of likely voters found that the vast majority of people think schools should focus on traditional subjects like math, reading and science, and a majority also
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Brendan Clarey | February 29, 2024 (Chalkboard News) — A new policy brief states that “equitable” grading policies that rely on lowering academic standards ultimately hurt the students they purportedly help. The research released Wednesday morning by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute challenged some of the claims often made about equitable grading practices and said
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Julian Roberts-Grmela | December 31, 2023 (Chalkboard News) — Earlier this year, the Education Department and the Department of Homeland Security’s joint agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), released guidance for district leaders to combat cyber threats. In an emailed statement, CISA’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, Eric Goldstein, said schools and districts “remain a
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