News: Education policy
Chronic Absenteeism and the “Five Why’s”: Stop Chasing Symptoms and Start Tackling Solutions
This Blog highlights a long-standing crisis in our nation’s schools: chronically-absent students. It documents the incident rates of chronic absenteeism over the past decade, specifies the root causes...
Read Full ArticleBeyond Overwhelmed: How AI Can Empower Administratively-Taxed School Leaders
This Blog recognizes that today’s district and school administrative leaders are overwhelmed with compliance reporting, budget oversight, community outreach, policy preparations, and other administrat...
Read Full ArticleEssential Strategies for Education Leaders During Uncertain Times: Future-Proofing Your School(s) for Today’s Sweeping Changes
This Blog addresses the significant shifts in education policy and practice in the Trump administration’s first two months, and advises education leaders to implement eight "future-proofing" strategie...
Read Full ArticleThe “Charlie Brown” Reality of Race and DEI in Education: How the Trump Administration is Creating Fear by Using “Ready-Fire-Aim” Tactics
This Blog uses fifty years of Charlie Brown lining up to kick a field goal—only to have Lucy pull the ball away—as a metaphor representing President Trump and the U.S. Department of Education’s “Ready...
Read Full ArticleRepelling a Wolf Attack on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973: Protecting Everyone When Chance Events Result in Life-Defining Disabilities
This Blog highlights how Section 504 protects individuals from discrimination based on disability, emphasizing that disabilities often arise from chance events and that anyone could potentially need 5...
Read Full ArticleMinimizing Classroom Distractions to Maximize Student Learning: Building Walls to Buffer Politics, Phones, Prejudice, and Preferential Treatment
This Blog analyzes the impact of external political and internal classroom distractions on teachers’ ability to teach and students’ ability to learn. It presents research that dismisses political atta...
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