Remove Education Policy Remove Government Remove History
article thumbnail

Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R. Teachers afraid of this may steer an unnecessarily wide path around painful history that needs to be discussed.

article thumbnail

 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

We are fighting over whether or not political parties that are in control of state government, in control of Congress, can control higher education,” Cantwell said. At UCF, the student government counts on staff members to run an annual diversity training. Still, Armato wonders, “Is this going to blow up on me?”

Sociology 111
educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Should We Rethink Our Notion of Who is ‘Smart’?

ED Surge

These days he’s often weighing in on education policy issues in his personal newsletter. He argues that public discussions of education too often center on what he sees as a “crisis narrative” that schools in the U.S. are losing pace with those of other nations and need significant reform.

K-12 101
article thumbnail

College completion failures must be tackled in tandem with costs, report says

The Hechinger Report

A new report by the think-tank Education Trust , issued Thursday, excoriates the federal government and state governments for failing to create a college-finance system that focuses both on cost and on completion. The government has a history of using nudges to compel states to spend more on the needy.

article thumbnail

The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

ED Surge

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

Tradition 131
article thumbnail

“Discovering” black teachers at HBCUs

The Hechinger Report

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. Black history will be added to standards when black teachers are given real chances to succeed.

article thumbnail

Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

The Hechinger Report

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Genes may not pass on white supremacy, but education policies certainly do. That’s horrific enough.