by Beth Holmes | Apr 11, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Book bans are being considered in more and more red states in the wake of Florida’s passing of their educational censorship “Parental Rights in Education” bill. Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas all have statewide rules to make it easy for...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 4, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues
Title IX rules will soon protect the rights of transgender students, say sources inside the Department of Education. Title IX is the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools or any educational program that uses federal funding. “No...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 1, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
A million absent students in the 2020-21 school year have teachers concerned about the graduating classes for the next 12 years. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on a Gallup survey that targeted teachers in the U.S. In the survey, nearly half of all...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 21, 2022 | News, Teacher Issues
San Francisco teachers are staging an overnight protest in their district office, and it will continue until they’re paid, they say. The San Francisco Unified School District migrated to a new payroll system in January, according to teachers. And since they...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 14, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Florida students walk out over the state’s proposed “Can’t Say Gay” bill, which passed in the the state senate on Tuesday morning. HB 1557, officially called the Parental Rights in Education bill, or the “Can’t Say Gay” bill by its opposers, passed...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 7, 2022 | News, Other
Skoltech, a Russian graduate university, is being cut off by MIT over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology partnered with the Russian government to found the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, generally known...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 28, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Taliban hasn’t been paying teachers in Afghanistan. Now UNICEF is stepping in to make sure Afghan children don’t lose all access to education. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last August, international trade and banking sanctions against the new...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | News, Student Issues
The Rye Riptides, an unmanned sailboat launched by students in New Hampshire, has made it to a Norway beach after more than a year. The Rye Riptides is a six-foot-long miniature sailboat with a rigid, fixed sail sent off by the students of Rye Junior High in October...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 14, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Maus, the deeply evocative graphic novel about the Holocaust, was banned in a Tennessee school district for being ‘inappropriate.’ The McMinn County School Board has been reviewing the literature in their curriculum and libraries for what is appropriate...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 7, 2022 | News, Teacher Issues
Hackers preying on infrastructure have turned their attention to schools, the very last people who need that kind of stress. In Albuquerque, New Mexico earlier this school year, a ransomware attack locked teachers out of the district’s student database –...
