Tag: K-12 education
America’s schools are crumbling – what will it take to fix...
Michael Addonizio, Wayne State University
When I was asked to support a federal lawsuit that says Detroit’s deteriorating schools were having a negative impact on...
What’s behind the teacher strikes: Unions focus on social justice, not...
Rebecca Tarlau, Pennsylvania State University
For the past few years I’ve been studying teacher unions and teachers strikes throughout the Americas. My research has taken...
Striking teachers in Denver shut down performance bonuses – here’s how...
Nathan Favero, American University School of Public Affairs
Editor’s note: Denver teachers reached a tentative deal on Feb. 14 that ended a three-day strike.
Besides raises...
School shooters usually show these signs of distress long before they...
Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University
Two years before he lined his schoolmates up against a classroom wall and...
Foreign language classes becoming more scarce
Kathleen Stein-Smith, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Of all the skills that a person could have in today’s globalized world, few serve individuals – and the...
America’s public schools seldom bring rich and poor together – and...
Jack Schneider, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many carry on his legacy through the struggle for...
Fight for federal right to education takes a new turn
Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina
A new fight to secure a federal constitutional right to education is spreading across the country. This...
College students with disabilities are too often excluded
Christa Bialka, Villanova University
AnnCatherine Heigl, a sophomore at George Mason University, recently attempted to join all eight sororities at her school. All eight turned...
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
