Schools are increasingly relying on technology to collect student data and monitor students’ behavior online. But they’re not giving equal consideration to the consequences of these technological strategies, argues a new report from the Center for Democracy & Technology, a nonprofit group that promotes digital rights. Among them: banning students …
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JoAnne A. Epps, the acting president of Temple University in Philadelphia whose tenure came at a turbulent time for the school, died on Tuesday after becoming ill onstage at a memorial service, the university said. Ms. Epps, who was appointed in April, was taken to a hospital after becoming ill …
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There’s a part of professional development sessions that inevitably makes many teachers cringe: the ice breaker. What is meant as a get-to-know-you and team-building activity can often feel cheesy, like a waste of time, and even patronizing. Teachers on social media bemoan the forced nature of having to come up …
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Have you ever noticed that people in positions of power who earnestly exhort us to “think outside the box” are likely to resist any effort to change the box itself? Take the folks in Silicon Valley. Their basic mission, as technology critic Evgeny Morozov argued recently, is to sell us …
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Superintendents left their roles in about 1 in 5 of the nation’s 500 largest school districts last school year—a sign that stressors that have destabilized educational leadership in recent years have not abated. Of those districts, 107, or 21.4 percent of them, lost a leader during the 2022-23 school year, …
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The group that won a major Supreme Court victory against affirmative action in June sued the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday, arguing that the court’s ruling barring race-conscious college admissions should extend to the nation’s military academies as well. The group, Students for Fair Admissions, was the …
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To the Editor: I am disappointed that Education Week would give any platform to Tiffany Justice, a Moms for Liberty co-founder (“‘Parents Can’t Trust Their Schools,’ Moms for Liberty Co-Founder Tiffany Justice Says,” June 30, 2023). Moms for Liberty has been identified as an extremist group by the Southern Poverty …
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To the Editor: I was disappointed to read that only 22 states met the requirements for IDEA during the 2022-23 school year (“Do More to Ensure Schools Meet Obligations to Students With Disabilities, Feds Tell States,” July 27, 2023). As a former special education teacher, I understand that students’ individualized …
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Part Two in this three-part series on how teachers should handle the so-called reading wars starts now … Ignore the War A former middle school teacher and professional development provider, Jennifer Borgioli Binis is the president of Schoolmarm Advisors, an editing, research, and fact-checking service for educational authors: We in …
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