Education

For third grader Raina Chamblee, school didn’t always produce smiles like the one you see in the photo above. A diagnosis of ADHD led to behavioral issues like drowsiness. Her peers teased her, and teachers weren’t taking the time to connect more deeply with Raina’s challenges.  Once, a teacher lashed out at her directly, reports The […]

With new home sales outpacing construction, a pressing need for skilled workers is a key limiting factor for improving housing inventory and affordability, according to the Home Builders Institute’s (HBI) Fall 2021 Construction Labor Market Report released on Nov. 4.  “The construction industry needs more than 61,000 new hires every month if we are to keep […]

On the EdSurge podcast, host Jeffrey R. Young takes a hard look at school grading systems and imagines “a world where letter grades don’t have so much power.”   The problem, Young says, is that “our current grading system can be a way for kids to prove themselves, win college scholarships, or gain admission to highly selective […]

A recent deep dive into the  impact and future of microschools, learning pods, and other learner-first programs by The 74’s Linda Jacobson features the Vela Education Fund and several of their grant recipients including the nature-focused microschool Green Gate, the homeschool co-op Cultural Roots, and Nevada’s Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy.   The 74 story begins with Megan Monsour, a parent who pulled […]

Most people understand the term “gerrymander” in political terms. That’s when a geographical area is divided into political units to give special advantages to one party or group.   But is our nation’s educational system also a product of gerrymandering?   In USA Today, reporter Alia Wong talked to Bellwether Education Partners and examined research which showed that […]

The latest numbers from the Nation’s Report Card, recently covered by the Washington Post and other outlets, reveal a sharp decline in student achievement. If we’re looking for a cause of these drops in performance, we don’t need to look far. It’s in the fundamental approach to learning in America. Our modern education system is built on the assumption that all kids should learn the same material […]

New learning approaches are continually being unveiled and the disruptions in schooling during the COVID pandemic only accelerated experimental approaches aimed at individualized education.  Washington Post tech editor Christina Passariello recently talked to Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan. She observed that, “if there’s really a topic that people have thought a lot about over the last 18 months, it has to be education […]

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