by Supporting Education | Mar 15, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Los Angeles Unified School District has been in deadlock with its teachers’ union about reopening schools for over eight months and has finally reached a tentative accord. In-person instruction, they announced on March 9, 2021, can begin in mid-April, making LA...
by Supporting Education | Mar 8, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There’s been a lot of research over the past century over the question of classroom discipline. Is “spare the rod, spoil the child,” the way? Time-outs, suspension, expulsion, “school resource officers?” For most of history, discipline has been along those lines....
by Supporting Education | Mar 1, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
For years now, teachers’ unions have been pushing the federal government to allow states to opt out of the federal standardized testing requirement. But in its first major act, President Biden’s new Department of Education has announced that states will not be allowed...
by Supporting Education | Feb 22, 2021 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Call Me Max, by Kyle Lukoff, is a children’s book on about the level of If You Give a Mouse A Cookie or Eloise – a story for children about ages 6-10. It’s about a young trans boy figuring out who he is and how he fits in with his friends. The book talks from Max’s...
by Supporting Education | Feb 15, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
In the 100-day plan from President Joe Biden, one of his pledges was to have students back in classrooms as swiftly as possible. His press secretary, Jen Psaki, was asked this week for specific benchmarks the White House was seeking to hit, but her answers varied. The...