As a former Texas Master Teacher, I thought I knew everything there was to know about education, as it related to data and metrics. I knew how to tier my students based on their academic needs. I understood the necessity for grouping my students by various demographic markers. I effectively delivered the Texas Essential Knowledge […]
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Around the World in 80 Lessons: Warnings in Genocide to the US from Armenia
This summer, I was invited to study at the Genocide Museum in Yerevan, Armenia as a teacher fellow with the Genocide Education Project. I walked the museum with Regina Galustyan, the museum’s biographer and researcher. I sat in on lectures from professors like Dr. Dikran Kaligian and visited cultural sites and monasteries. I watched Armenian […]
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Ryan Walters steps down after turbulent tenure as Oklahoma state superintendent
Ryan Walters, the state school superintendent who implemented Bibles in all public classrooms in the state, will resign from his position effective the end of this month. Elected in 2022, Walters spent his tenure as head of schools routinely injecting religion into the States’ public schools, and he will join the Teacher Freedom Alliance, a […]
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Department of Education to partner with conservative groups for civics curriculum
On Wednesday, the Education Department announced a partnership with conservative groups to provide educational programming on patriotism, liberty, and what it calls American values, in recognition of the nation’s 250th anniversary next year. Announced on Constitution Day, the Department of Education, alongside the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), Turning Point USA, Hillsdale College, and more […]
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Florida to stop all childhood vaccine mandates
In a partnership with Ron DeSantis and the Department of Health, the state of Florida will begin working to repeal all childhood vaccines. Florida’s governor said on Wednesday, he’d ask the state legislature to repeal a statute that currently requires all children to receive mandatory vaccinations for polio, diphtheria, measles, and mumps before entering school. […]
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Climate Literacy: A Powerful New Story
Everywhere I look, I hear about it. See it. Feel it. Experience it. For decades now, I have not been able to escape it for a single day. I don’t necessarily want to escape it; it’s too important to do that. Although it’s such a heart-heavy issue for me that I sometimes wish I could […]
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Federal Funding is Non-Negotiable: What educators said about withholding dollars
This summer, when the Trump administration withheld billions of dollars in federal funding from schools, education advocates and state officials sounded the alarm. These funds, intended to support summer and after-school programs for migrant students, English learners, and underserved communities, have yet to be distributed, despite being authorized in a continuing resolution passed in March […]
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Trump adminstration ends protections for English Language Learners
Under the directive of President Donald J. Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, the U.S. Department of Education has ended federal guidelines set in 2015 on how to serve English Language Learners. These shifts are expected to impact more than 5.3 million English learners in the U.S. K-12 public education system, as well as the schools […]