Category Archives: education
This has real economic consequences
New data show the number of Massachusetts high school graduates has plunged 10 percentage points in the past five years.
One way to counter censorship in the schools
This is real trouble
Almost half of teachers are thinking about leaving their jobs. Where does that leave America?
Two seems awfully young to teach chess
Otherwise, I agree with just about everything in this article (by my friend Leontxo Garcia).
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La húngara, la mejor jugadora de la historia, analiza la falta de mujeres en la élite y el papel formativo de este deporte
Much needs to be done
but we’ll be better off for it (and so, of course, will they).
School systems are preparing for the influx with programs and care packages to welcome the new students.
Who cares what it is? Liberals support it.
Therefore it must be pernicious. No need to define it or know what it is.
“Critical race theory is an academic framework that explores how racism is embedded in U.S. policies and systems.
“Recently, though, conservative pundits and politicians have attempted to conflate it with a slew of other concepts, such as diversity and inclusion efforts, anti-racism training, social justice activism or multicultural curricula.”
Advocates say the new Texas law, which goes into effect on Sept. 1, will have a chilling effect on schools.
The horns of a dilemna
There’s “a roiling debate in education, about how and even whether to measure the academic impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the nation’s children — and how to describe learning gaps without stigmatizing or discouraging students and families.”
There’s no question but that millions of students have fallen behind. Two solutions. We spend the time to get them back up to where they should be. That could well mean repeating the lost year (or two). That’s stigmatizing and discouraging. Or we don’t. In which case, a generation remains behind. That’s also stigmatizing and discouraging.
Research shows many young children have fallen behind in reading and math. But some educators are worried about stigmatizing an entire generation.
Not good but better than everything else
Eliminating standardized testing would remove the one admissions criterion that can prevent fraud and increase social mobility.
A better way to do it
Studies in the Baltic state moved seamlessly online thanks to its early adoption of education technology
