On the latest obsession with phonics

Comment on this storyComment The “reading wars” have been around for longer than you might think. In the 1800s, Horace Mann, the “father of public education” who was the first state education secretary in the country (in Massachusetts), advocated that children learn to read whole words and learn to read for meaning before they are More...

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By admin On Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
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AI and news literacy: 3 key takeaways

Comment on this storyComment Here’s the latest installment of a regular feature I’ve been running for several years: lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project (NLP), which aims to teach students More...

By admin On Thursday, May 11th, 2023
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What new civics test scores show us: We need to do more

Comment on this storyComment The release this month of standardized test scores showing a drop in students’ knowledge of U.S. history and civics — more for the first than the second — was hardly More...

By admin On Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
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Florida rejects social studies topics about communism, social justice

Comment on this storyComment Florida initially rejected 81 percent of new K-12 social studies instructional materials publishers submitted to be included on the state’s adoption list for K-12 teachers More...

By admin On Monday, May 8th, 2023
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New look at benefits of quality preschool education

Comment on this storyComment Quality preschool programs have long been connected to positive education and health outcomes for students, and over the past two decades, some state legislatures have taken More...

By admin On Sunday, May 7th, 2023
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Banning clothes with political slogans at school

Comment on this storyComment Here’s the latest installment of a regular feature I’ve been running for several years: lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project (NLP), which aims to teach students More...

By admin On Saturday, April 29th, 2023
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The impact of Alabama governor’s ouster of education chief

Comment on this storyComment In a new shot in the culture wars, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) recently forced the resignation of Barbara Cooper, the secretary of the state’s Department of Early Childhood More...

By admin On Friday, April 28th, 2023
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Why some marginalized people distrust the news

Comment on this storyComment Here’s the latest installment of a regular feature I’ve been running for several years: lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy Project (NLP), which aims to teach students More...

By admin On Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
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Gaslighting Americans about public schools: The truth about ‘A Nation at Risk’

Comment on this storyComment In April 1983, a commission convened by President Ronald Reagan’s education secretary, Terrel H. Bell, released a landmark report about the nation’s public education More...

By admin On Sunday, April 23rd, 2023
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet pens letter to local school board

To the Brandywine Public Schools Board of Education: I am a 1974 graduate of Brandywine Public High School. My sister graduated in 1969, and ultimately became a Hospice nurse. My father was Director of Guidance More...

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