Watching the latest battle over school funding in Ohio’s biennial budget process reminds me of Ronald Reagan’s famous campaign debate quip to Jimmy Carter: “There you go again.” So, here they go again ...
Why are Indiana lawmakers trying to dismantle pass-fail grading systems? As the largest medical school in the U.S., Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) utilizes a pass-fail grading system, ...
I spent the first half of my working life in the private sector, and the second half in the public schools. The differences are legion. In the private sector, if there is general agreement that ...
U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Tuesday vowed to pull federal funding if schools fail to combat antisemitism and Islamophobia. Cardona said that the department’s Office of ...
Medical schools and institutions are now among the zealous champions of progressive ideology. Within days of George Floyd’s death in May 2020, the Association of American Medical Colleges demanded ...
The education crisis is bad and getting worse. The US spends more on education than any other nation, so the problem is not (as commonly portrayed) a funding crisis. The causes for this sorry state of ...
Schools must include parents and at least one staff member who knows the student, including a school psychologist or guidance counselor. Families are entitled to request others to join, such as a ...
I never let schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Learning happens every day if we’re observant, but schooling happens every year for children and adolescents. Of course, the start of a ...
In private schools, kindergarten children begin to learn about numbers with brightly colored sticks known as cuisenaire rods, and second-grade children are introduced to mathematics through the ...
Officials at the Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota Medical School may change the school’s grading scale to a pass/fail system for first- and second-year students, according to the Minnesota ...