Tag: K-12 education
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...
Long considered a high honor, the valedictorian tradition faces an uncertain...
John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky
As college and high school graduations take place, thousands of select students will step to podiums to deliver their...
Are yoga and mindfulness in schools religious?
Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University
The number of U.S. children age 4 to 17 practicing yoga rose from 2.3% to 8.4% – or from 1.3...
Colorado shooting eerily recalls Columbine massacre
Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University
Columbine. Contagion. Clusters.
These are the culprits to consider as the nation reels from...
What other countries can teach the US about raising teacher pay
David Evans, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Teacher strikes swept the United States in 2018, from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina and beyond....
Missing school is a given for children of migrant farmworker
Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, Georgia State University
In the summer of his junior year, Luis Miguel was struggling to stay in high school. He and his...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
