Public education has been a part of the United States since its founding, but it became compulsory everywhere around 1900. Today, public education is still mostly controlled and administered by state and local governments. Local boards of education can have tremendous influence on what is taught in a school and how they are run. State boards of education have considerable influence over what textbooks are produced for sale, especially in large states like Texas and California.
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School starts next week. This is designed as an opening lesson for sixth grade social studies. Middle school teacher Dean Bacigalupo helped develop this lesson. Aim: How do scientists and archaeologist partner to understand the past? A recent article...
by Alan Singer
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Having sex on campus can get students in trouble at almost any school in the country, but at Fayette County High School in Fayetteville, Ga., the same punishments apparently apply to alleged victims of sexual assault as well, according to a complaint...
by Leslie Salzillo
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For the last few weeks I’ve been involved in fighting an attempt to reopen a closed for profit prison in Appleton, Minnesota as an ICE detention facility, so I’ve been reading up on the area and it’s economy a bit. One fact stood out- In Swift County...
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At this point, we’re all probably a little wary when it comes to politicians making policy announcements on Twitter (thanks, Trump). But some amazing news broke on Twitter courtesy of Birmingham, Alabama, Mayor Randall Woodfin on Tuesday night....
by Marissa Higgins
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It is Back To School Eve here at Casa Brillig (and its satellite location Université Maison K1). This marks my 17th year as a Parent participant in the tradition, and (give or take) a half-century since I first began my involvement in School Things. As...
by brillig
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On May 7, two students at the STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado opened fire in a classroom. The mass shooting at the K-12 school ended with 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo dead and eight other students injured. Both suspects were apprehended and...
by Walter Einenkel
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California charter schools are systematically leaving disabled kids behind—or worse. A recent report from United Teachers Los Angeles and the California Teachers Association looks at three large school districts, finding that charter schools in all...
by Laura Clawson
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As summer comes to an end, many of us are thinking about back-to-school supplies. Whether you’re a student going back to school yourself, or you’re responsible for someone who is, you’ve probably thought about how expensive it is to get everything...
by Marissa Higgins
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Note: Much of this post is based on research collected by Steven White of the East Ramapo, New York educational advocacy group The Power of Ten. White and The Power of Ten support a proposed New York State regulation to closely monitor religious...
by Alan Singer
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Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis , reads the motto of the University of Texas. In English, this translates to a saying most famously attributed to Mireabeau Lamar: ‘education is the guardian ...
by AdityaVarma
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Author’s note: This is the 8th diary in a series that I will post monthly, on medical topics related to emergency care. If you want to check out the first diary in the series, you can find it here, on the topic of insider tips to improve your ER visit,...
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This week, we’re in Florida: a Head Start teacher needs to assemble supplies to give her students the early basis in STEM that they need, while another early-grades teacher seeks real books her students can hold and touch. We hope that readers who...
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New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, a 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, recently shared in an interview with Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund, that he not only has a nonbinary family...
by Marissa Higgins
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Dear President Donald Trump The Mar-a-Lago Club, 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, FL 33480 The Danish Government has reconsidered your proposal and given it a thorough evaluation. While we are not willing to sell Greenland, Denmark is willing to...
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