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A false, racist rumor spread by the GOP presidential ticket shutters education in Springfield and prompts the governor to put state police in schools. There’s an innate tension between school safety and students’ civil rights. The 74’s Mark Keierleber keeps you up to …
New Data: School Shootings Surge to a Record High - The 74
Sep 13, 2023 · Fourteen people were wounded or killed in active school shootings in 2021, the report revealed, compared to a high of 81 in 2018. Between 2000 and 2021, there were 46 active shooting incidents, resulting in 108 deaths and 168 injuries. Of the 47 people who carried out the active shootings, all but one was male.
40 Years after ‘A Nation at Risk’: What Worked, and ... - The 74
Dec 12, 2023 · Forty years ago, the release of A Nation at Risk(ANAR)led to what is known today as the modern school reform movement. With its calls for increased academic rigor, more productive use of instructional time, more effective teaching and more impactful leadership, ANARset policy and practice changes in motion at every level of the education system.
A History of Holding Parents Responsible for Their Kids’ Crimes
Feb 9, 2024 · School (In)Security. A History of Holding Parents Responsible for Their Kids’ Crimes. A Michigan mother’s rare conviction in a school shooting carried out by her son raises the stakes in charging parents for their children’s bad acts. Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of the Oxford High school gunman, enters a courtroom in Oakland County ...
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Here’s How the Cost of College Has Changed Since the 1960s
Nov 14, 2022 · The price of that college degree has become more daunting by the year. The average undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board for full-time students in the 2020-21 school year was $25,910. While grants and scholarships offset the cost of college, many people finance their higher education through student loans, which has resulted in about 44 ...
Niemi: CASEL Is Updating the Most Widely Recognized Definition …
Dec 15, 2020 · In the 26 years since CASEL introduced the term “social and emotional learning,” the research and practice of SEL have grown tremendously. Today, educators talk about SEL in many ways and hear about a multitude of strategies for implementation in schools and classrooms. As the creators of the most widely cited SEL definitions, CASEL now […]
40 Years After ‘A Nation at Risk,’ Assessing the Impact of Whole …
Jan 9, 2024 · While some models have proven effective at shifting child outcomes in certain settings, none have yet been proven — at large scale, using high-quality causal research methods — to be a silver bullet that can overcome the challenges many children face today in terms of improving academic outcomes.
40 Years After ‘A Nation At Risk,’ How Has Standards-Based School ...
Mar 19, 2024 · A short history of standards-based reform. The NCLB Act locked into place a specific version of standards-based reform, one that incorporated a mishmash of ideas that had been floating around since the 1980s and arguably since the 1960s.
Interactive: In Many Schools, Declines in Student Enrollment are …
Apr 29, 2024 · According to the center’s most recent data, public schools served 1.2 million fewer students in 2022-23 than they did in the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic.. The losses were widespread, with 37 states and two-thirds of school districts suffering a decline. California was the biggest loser in numeric terms, with 420,000 fewer public school students (a 6.7% decline), while Oregon ...