Tag: K-12
5 tips to help preschoolers with special needs during the pandemic
Michele L. Stites, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Susan Sonnenschein, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Four months in...
State efforts to close the K-12 digital divide may come up...
Stephanie Holcomb, Rutgers University; Andrea Hetling, Rutgers University; Gregory Porumbescu, Rutgers University - Newark , and Vishal Trehan, Rutgers University - Newark
Teachers must often face student attacks alone
Charles Bell, Illinois State University
When “Ms. Kyles,” a social studies teacher in a suburban district, heard her colleague scream in a nearby classroom, she...
Why charter schools are not as ‘public’ as they claim to...
Kevin Welner, University of Colorado Boulder
Proponents of charter schools insist that they are public schools “open to all...
State efforts to ban mask mandates in schools mirror resistance to...
Dustin Hornbeck, University of Texas Arlington
When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education...
COVID-19 has spurred investments in air filtration for K-12 schools –...
Mark Thomas Hernandez, University of Colorado Boulder
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought increased attention to indoor air quality and...
Shutting down school vaccine clinics doesn’t protect minors – it hurts...
Katherine A. Foss, Middle Tennessee State University
A 1918 newspaper article captures public attitudes toward a typhoid vaccine clinic...
How parents can help kids deal with back-to-school anxiety
Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State University
As a child, I had a great deal of anxiety. If you’ve ever seen...
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...
