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The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015 eliminated the federal requirement that teachers be highly qualified to teach. This regulatory freedom, combined with a shortage of trained and qualified teachers, has led some states to allow unqualified people to teach children. Texas used this freedom to adopt a new state law that allows almost any school to hire unlicensed teachers. As a result, Texas schools now hire more unlicensed new teachers than licensed ones. The supply problem is especially acute in rural and small-town schools, where almost 75% of new teachers hired in 2023-2024 were unlicensed. This is up from 17% in 2013-14.
A special education staffing crisis is raging through many U.S. school districts. It's taking a toll on students and families.
The final pro-Palestinian encampment in the greater Boston area disbanded Tuesday. Here's a look at how colleges across Massachusetts handled the protest movement.
The elected imbeciles strolling the halls of government. The platitudes with which they perfume their genocidal hypocrisy regarding bombed children. The Congressional committees which conduct themselves as a grotesque amalgam of the Sanhedrin and the Council Of Trent. All are a direct result of a citizenry with a limitless inability to fathom.
BookTok can be great for young readers, but some of the recommended content can be explicit and violent.
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State students, killing four and wounding nine. A former student who now teaches there reflects on that day and offers lessons for protesters now.
Four years after COVID disrupted high school graduations, many college seniors are looking forward to their first real commencement. Student protests are forcing some to adjust their expectations.
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns that social media harms children but definitive evidence is hard to find. Whatever your views on kids and technology, digital connectivity is now part of childhood.
Bias is a natural inclination for or against an idea, object, group, or individual. It is often learned and is highly dependent on variables such as a person’s socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, education, gender, and religion. Several studies have been published about bias in generative artificial intelligence, including this one HERE, HERE, and my field report from 2022 titled “Interrogating AI Bias through Digital Art.” “Bias in Generative AI” features a study that analyzed images generated by three popular AI tools — Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALLE 2 — to investigate potential bias in AI generators.
“If one knows hell as home,” Percival Everett’s Jim asks, “Is returning to hell a homecoming?” Everett’s novel James, a retelling of Mark Twain's
“We don't come in when there's something crazy happening and then leave when it's over. This is just what we do all the time. And I really hope that makes people trust us more as a newspaper.”
There’s a battle in Congress, the courts, and Washington to suppress American democratic freedoms by crushing dissent on Israel.
Republicans tried for the kind of headline moments they've scored in similar hearings with elite college presidents. But the testimony from K-12 public school leaders offered few surprises.
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The small community of Spindale in western North Carolina and the surrounding area was once known for its textile mills, offering generations of families
Student protestors voluntarily ended their encampment Tuesday morning. Harvard was the last remaining encampment in the Boston area, after a string of others have been cleared out by police, resulting in arrests and school discipline.
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured outbursts, jets and rivers of plasma beneath the arch of a glowing coronal loop.
Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can't match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old practice, especially for kids.
Last week, the chief scientist of the James Webb Space Telescope, Jane Rigby, was awarded the 2024 Medal of Freedom.
Pedro Noguera led anti-apartheid protests as a student at UC Berkeley. Forty years later, he offers his thoughts on the ongoing protests at the University of Southern California over the war in Gaza.
At college campuses across the country, Pro-Palestinian protesters are demanding an end to the war in Gaza and divestment from companies that do business with Israel.
Identity is fluid, because concepts such as culture, history and collective self-perceptions are never fixed. They are in a constant state of flux and
Come July 1, school districts in Florida could authorize volunteer chaplains — those who are religious or not and with no training — to provide support and services for students in public schools, though GOP-controlled legislatures across the country are rejecting similar proposals. Last year, Texas passed a first-of-its-kind law authorizing schools to pay for […]
"There are commercial reasons why some newsrooms focus on the spectacle and confrontation — the old journalism adage of 'if it bleeds, it leads' still prevails in many newsroom decisions...But it is a decision that delegitimizes protest aims."
At least seven schools have reached an agreement with students around investment transparency and exploring divestment from Israel.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology administration began issuing suspensions Wednesday night to students who participated in the encampment on Kresge Lawn protesting the war in Gaza. The university would not confirm how many suspensions it's issued or how it determined who was deserving of that punishment.
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