San Francisco School Board President Says Critics of School Renaming Are Undermining Anti-Racist Work
"What I keep hearing is you're trying to undermine the work that has been done through this process."
"What I keep hearing is you're trying to undermine the work that has been done through this process."
No need to follow the stultifying advice from Parents magazine on how to "Supercharge Every Storytime."
This is probably not what Lyndon B. Johnson had in mind.
The school district is hiring classroom assistants to watch the kids as they learn from their laptops.
"The University’s responsibility to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression cannot be outsourced."
An interesting ruling involving the University of Minnesota, by Judge Patrick Schiltz (himself a former professor).
"We are failing those children by not giving them the option to return to school."
Teachers who refuse to go back to work should not get to cut in line.
"We are prioritizing antiracist arts instruction in our work."
We literally can't afford it.
The silver lining to disastrous education lockdowns? A massive increase in support for all sorts of student-centered reforms.
The pandemic, says Reason Foundation's Corey A. DeAngelis, is finally forcing districts to put students ahead of teachers and bureaucrats.
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First the union invaded, now it refuses to leave.
The pandemic showed me how many choices I have about my kids’ education. Everyone should have the same options.
May public schools punish students for off-campus social media posts?
When the feds failed to track COVID-19, Emily Oster stepped in.
Black families need control of their children's K-12 education, says the Minnesota activist. The past year's lockdowns might just make that happen.
Aren't there more important things to do right now?
Good Democratic voters don't like being called racist Trump supporters, which unions are leveraging to keep schools closed.
Teachers unions in Chicago and elsewhere are militantly defying requests to reopen.
There’s no reason to fight over the content of your kids’ lessons when you can choose your own.
Black education activist Chris Stewart is done with liberal falsehoods and conservative failure to deliver reform.
Montclair cancellation of K-12 reopening is yet another reminder that unions are putting students last.
If passed, new laws will give parents more control over how their education dollars are spent.
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District officials described the act of defiance as an illegal strike.
Making it easier for families to fund their preferred education options will be a lot more effective than throwing a big bribe to teachers unions.
Union leaders shame parents, arguing that equity gaps will widen if parents pull their children out of public schools.
Remote learning continues to be the norm for more than three out of four New York City public school students.
Fourth and final post in my series on how to write an academic book and get it published.
It's time for the left and the right to take a hard look at their favorite public-sector unions.
If the aim is to reduce COVID-19 deaths, Oregon's plan is a failure.
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No, not me! More on the University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School / Professor Jason Kilborn controversy.
A controversy at the University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall Law School (not to be confused with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
Numerous women claimed on social media that they were mistreated at YAL events and that their concerns were ignored by leadership.
“Keep the schools open,” said Anthony Fauci.
"That behavior was unconscionable for our country."
Open the schools, accelerate vaccine distribution, and stop being so generous with other people’s money.
The Harvard economist explains how to expand opportunity for the young by deregulating housing, labor, and education.
The United States was virtually alone in keeping schools closed this fall. As a result, public education—and cities—may never look the same.
"I’m going to remind myself, you started something," Jimmy Galligan told the paper. "You taught someone a lesson.”
A year into the pandemic, politicians still have not digested the dangers of careless public health measures.
Even as the pandemic has exposed the desperate need for disruptions to the calcified public school system, Congress just voted to restrict some of the very creativity that's sorely needed.