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First the Catholics, now the Jews: More religious charters in OK?
Oklahoma has approved the first religious charter school in the nation, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. The online school...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 18, 20231 min read


Banning book bans: It won't work
Illinois libraries that ban or restrict books for "partisan or doctrinal" reasons will lose state funding under a new law, reports Claire...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 17, 20232 min read


Students give their schools a B-
The good news is that two-thirds of students give their schools an A or B grade in a Gallup/Walton survey of students in grades 5 to 12....

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 16, 20231 min read


Race-based affirmative action isn't popular
Half of adults disapprove of colleges considering race and ethnicity in admissions, while one third approve and the rest are unsure,...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 15, 20231 min read


If colleges can't use race for admissions, what happens?
The U.S. Supreme Court to end racial preferences in college admissions, very soon, just about everyone predicts. So what happens next?...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 15, 20232 min read


Less schooling, less learning
“The Longer Students Were Out of School, the Less They Learned,” concludes Harry Anthony Patrinos, an education economist for the World...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 14, 20231 min read


Still disrupted: Students are missing a lot of school
Schools haven't returned to normal reports Alia Wong for USA Today. An alarming number of students are "missing vast stretches of their...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 14, 20232 min read


Teachers are thriving in charter, private schools
Teachers, Facing Increasing Levels of Stress, Are Burned Out, according to a March story in the New York Times. That seems to be true for...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 13, 20231 min read


Teacher hiring spree is over
Teacher hiring is about to fall off that fiscal cliff districts were warned about, write Katherine Silberstein and Marguerite Roza of...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 13, 20231 min read


Beyond basics: Schools must teach 'virtues and habits' of free people
"Back to basics" education isn't enough, writes Gillian Richards on The American Conservative. "Some conservatives have responded to...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20232 min read


Rightward Ho: Americans are more likely to be social conservatives
Are there two sexes? Americans in 2023 are slightly more likely to say that gender is binary than they were in 2021, according to a new...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20232 min read


Conservative moms are hate-filled 'extremists,' says SPLC
Moms for Liberty, conservatives who "do not co-parent with the government" and oppose gender-identity lessons in schools, made the...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11, 20232 min read


Bishop's gambit: The chess coach is the school custodian, and the students are winners
Coached by the school custodian, students in Hampden, Maine have become chess champions, writes Sydney Page in the Washington Post. David...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 10, 20231 min read


Virtual Reality meets financial reality
Unable to afford Apple's new augmented reality headset, a Harrison, Arkansas man "has found the next best thing by "duct-taping his...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 9, 20231 min read


Inside the frog: Is VR learning for real?
Cleveland students are using virtual and augmented reality to learn about frogs from the inside out, report Carmen Blackwell, Susan...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 9, 20232 min read


Should I go to college? Class of '23 worries about costs, feels less prepared
The Class of '23 missed the last part of ninth grade, and many missed chunks of 10th and 11th grade as well. Forty-two percent say...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20231 min read


Public is divided on public schools
Most Democrats say the public schools positive effect on the U.S. Most Republicans disagree. The partisan divide on the value of public...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20232 min read


Charters are outperforming traditional public schools
Charter schools are outperforming traditional public schools, according to a new study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 7, 20233 min read


Why parents choose virtual schools
Virtual schooling has a bad reputation, writes Ian Kingsbury, a senior fellow at the Educational Freedom Institute, in City Journal....

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20232 min read


No sex shows for kids in Texas: Why is this controversial?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign a bill that would ban staging "sexually explicit shows in front of children," reports William...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20231 min read
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