40 Years After ‘A Nation At Risk,’ How Has Standards-Based School ...
Mar 19, 2024 — A short history of standards-based reform. The NCLB Act locked into place a specific version of standards-based reform, one that incorporated a mishmash of ideas that had been floating around since the 1980s and arguably since the 1960s.
ALICE, America’s Most Controversial Active-Shooter Training that ...
Dec 7, 2021 — As gunshots rang out inside Michigan’s Oxford High School last week, terrified students scrambled for shelter, barricading classroom doors with desks and chairs should the gunman try to burst inside. Some wielded scissors and calculators as makeshift weapons in case they had to fight back. One student, 16-year-old star running back Tate Myre, was reportedly […]
74 Interview: Educator & Khan Academy Founder Sal Khan on
Feb 8, 2023 — Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter. See previous 74 Interviews: Economist Tom Kane on the challenge of reversing learning loss, education researcher Martin West on this fall’s NAEP results, and journalist Anya Kamenetz on what COVID took from a generation of American students. The full archive is here.
New Data: School Shootings Surge to a Record High - The 74
Sep 13, 2023 — Fourteen people were wounded or killed in active school shootings in 2021, the report revealed, compared to a high of 81 in 2018. Between 2000 and 2021, there were 46 active shooting incidents, resulting in 108 deaths and 168 injuries. Of the 47 people who carried out the active shootings, all but one was male.
Here’s How the Cost of College Has Changed Since the 1960s
Nov 14, 2022 — The price of that college degree has become more daunting by the year. The average undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board for full-time students in the 2020-21 school year was $25,910. While grants and scholarships offset the cost of college, many people finance their higher education through student loans, which has resulted in about 44 ...
Niemi: CASEL Is Updating the Most Widely Recognized Definition …
Dec 15, 2020 — In the 26 years since CASEL introduced the term “social and emotional learning,” the research and practice of SEL have grown tremendously. Today, educators talk about SEL in many ways and hear about a multitude of strategies for implementation in schools and classrooms. As the creators of the most widely cited SEL definitions, CASEL now […]
How Educators Transformed Their Tennessee School by Listening …
Feb 14, 2023 — Elizabethton and its educators are using youth voice and choice to improve their high school and community at large. This is one of XQ’s research-based design principles for rethinking the high school experience. The goal is to create more meaningful, engaged learning that looks beyond the school’s walls.
‘Oregon Trail’ at 50: How Three Teachers Created the Computer …
Dec 2, 2021 — Teachers began taking notice. The game quickly became MECC’s most popular title. As desktop computers began to sprout in classrooms, MECC spun off a for-profit company that sold millions of copies of The Oregon Trail and other early titles nationwide.. A new generation of coders added graphics, sounds, and music to create the versions of The Oregon Trail that most kids have played since.
A History of Holding Parents Responsible for Their Kids’ Crimes
Feb 9, 2024 — School (In)Security. A History of Holding Parents Responsible for Their Kids’ Crimes. A Michigan mother’s rare conviction in a school shooting carried out by her son raises the stakes in charging parents for their children’s bad acts. Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of the Oxford High school gunman, enters a courtroom in Oakland County ...
How a Free, 24/7 Tutoring Model is Disrupting Learning Loss for …
Sep 14, 2023 — A new 24-hour online tutoring service is helping the nation’s most underserved students make huge academic gains — at no cost to them. UPchieve, an ed tech nonprofit, is bringing on volunteer tutors to offer free, on-demand academic and college application support to any U.S. middle or high school student attending a Title I school or ...