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Public Funds, Private Schools: A New Analysis of the Early Returns …
Oct 23, 2024 · Education is at a Crossroads: Help Us Illuminate the Path Forward. Donate to The 74 For decades, public funds have been used to subsidize private schooling, but recent debates over the practice have been reinvigorated as the scope of these programs has soared.
Overwhelmed ESA Systems in West Virginia, Arkansas Leave …
Oct 9, 2024 · In April, the West Virginia State Treasurer’s Office, which runs the Hope Scholarship, awarded a nearly $10 million contract to Indiana-based Student First Technologies to manage purchases and payments to education providers, replacing a non-profit the state contracted with last year. But the system has struggled to keep up as enrollment in the education savings account program jumped from ...
Why Are Bullies So Mean? A Psychology Expert Explains Their …
Dec 26, 2023 · I’m a professor who studies child and adolescent development. That includes learning how people become bullies – and how they can be stopped. First, let’s define what bullying is: It’s mean-spirited, harmful behavior by someone with more power or status – like a popular kid at school or a supervisor at work – who repeatedly picks on, harasses, irritates or injures a person with ...
Best Education Articles of 2023: Our 23 Most Important Stories …
Dec 19, 2023 · Exclusive Spending Data: Schools Still Pouring Money Into Reading Materials That Teach Kids to Guess. By Asher Lehrer-Small . Eamonn Fitzmaurice / The 74. Districts across the country continue to pour money into expensive reading materials criticized for leaving many children without the basic ability to sound out words, an investigation by The 74’s Asher Lehrer-Small revealed.
New Data: School Shootings Surge to a Record High - The 74
Sep 13, 2023 · While the federal data on school gun violence incidents “is of course extremely striking,” it is just “one piece in the puzzle of our understanding of school shootings,” Véronique Irwin, an associate education research analyst with the National Center for Education Statistics, said on a press call Tuesday.
14 Charts that Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools …
Dec 12, 2023 · In October, the Accelerator circulated a paper showing impressive results from OnYourMark, a fully virtual program provided to developing readers.The study found that among 1,000 students enrolled in Texas charter schools, participating in OnYourMark resulted in kindergartners gaining the equivalent of 26 extra days of learning in letter sounds and first graders receiving 55 additional days of ...
No More Cures, No More Fixes: How Autistic Leaders Are ... - The 74
Mar 6, 2024 · ‘If I Knew Then What I Know Now — A Parent’s Autism Story’ (Multicultural Autism Action Network) During a 2020 address at Drexel University, Julia Bascom, until recently the network’s executive director, offered an example of how changing the prism through which disability is viewed clashes with the most prevalent therapies and services: “In the medical model, autism means that my ...
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.
A History of Holding Parents Responsible for Their Kids’ Crimes
Feb 9, 2024 · Education is at a Crossroads: Help Us Illuminate the Path Forward. Donate to The 74 Just three days before her 15-year-old son carried out a mass shooting at his Michigan high school in 2021, Jennifer Crumbley was captured on security camera leaving a shooting range with the handgun in tow.