Teacher Autonomy Isn’t Dead. Here’s How to Achieve It
Award-winning teachers and other experts suggest ways to build and maintain this cherished professional freedom.
Ensuring Safety and Equity: Defending the Practice of Removing Disruptive Students
Allowing students who disrupt and threaten others to remain in classroom disproportionately affects students who do not disrupt or threaten others. Offenders of such acts are not victims. Removing them should be down on the list of options, but an option, nonetheless. Look at the image accompanying this article. Now, you are a school administrator, …
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High Pace of Superintendent Turnover Continues, Data Show
About one in five large districts lost a superintendent last year, researchers found.
A State Mandated School Threat Assessment. Here’s What It Meant for Students
What researchers learned from the largest analysis of school threat assessment to date.
One Day, AI Will Make Teaching Obsolete. As Educators, We Have a Different Role to Play.
This past spring, I overheard one of my fifth graders boast that he would start using ChatGPT to do his homework. I chuckled because I knew him well …
Celebrating Juneteenth by Emancipating History
The author, his father, and his brother in Morgantown, Miss. (Photo courtesy of Jesse Hagopian) Several years ago my dad, Gerald Lenoir, discovered the plantation where our family was enslaved. Through his extensive genealogical research, he determined that my great-great-grandfather Thomas H. Lenoir was born into slavery on the Lenoir Plantation in Morgantown, Miss., in …
Let’s Talk About When Cars Need to Stop for School Buses
A refresher course on the rules of the road involving stopped school buses.
Is Funding for School Archery and Hunting Programs Really at Risk?
A U.S. Department of Education document led to confusion among school administrators about funding for archery and hunting programs.
Here’s What’s Next for Charter Schools, According to Their Chief Advocate
Nina Rees, head of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, sat down with Education Week to discuss the future of charter schools.