Tag: K-12 education
Lead-based paint found in half of all inspected schools
Marilynne R Wood, University of Toledo
With all the emphasis that has been placed on making sure children are safe from the hazards of lead-based...
Why I made an app to document the seclusion and restraint...
Gabriela Marcu, University of Michigan
School districts are failing to accurately report when their most vulnerable students are being physically restrained or secluded. That’s according...
What is personalized learning and why is it so controversial? 5...
Penny Bishop, University of Vermont
Editor’s note: The term “personalized learning” is becoming more common. Indeed, 39 states mention personalized learning in their school improvement...
How the Flint water crisis set students back
Marilynne R Wood, University of Toledo
When the Flint water crisis took place in 2014 and 2015, one of my graduate nursing students decided to...
For many NBA players, finding a better high school was critical...
Rob Book, University of Southern Denmark
When University of Southern California freshman Kevin Porter, Jr., became a first-round NBA draft pick on June 20, he...
Divorced dads often dissed by schools
Jessica Troilo, West Virginia University
By the time Father’s Day takes place, the school year is usually over.
In many ways, that’s an apt metaphor for...
What advice articles miss about ‘summer loss’
Kelly Chandler-Olcott, Syracuse University
When the end of the school year arrives, internet articles and morning talk shows sound the annual alarm about preventing summer...
The SAT’s new ‘adversity score’ is a poor fix for a...
Leigh Patel, University of Pittsburgh
The College Board recently revealed a new “adversity score” that it plans to use as part of the SAT in...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
