AI and news literacy: 3 key takeaways
News literacy lessons from the nonprofit and nonpartisan News Literacy Project.
By Valerie StraussOn the latest obsession with phonics
Three reading experts challenge the current education orthodoxy about phonics instruction.
By Valerie StraussWhat new civics test scores show us, besides the obvious
Following the release of NAEP standardized test scores showing a drop in students’ knowledge, civics education experts offer a prescription for how to do better.
By Valerie StraussFlorida rejects social studies topics about communism, social justice
It blocked 35 percent of the materials publishers submitted, including a reference to “taking a knee.”
By Valerie StraussNew look at benefits of quality preschool education
Scientific evidence shows that quality preschool education for 3- and 4-year-olds can improve health and longevity, and reduce persistent educational gaps.
By Valerie StraussBanning clothes with political slogans at school, and other news literacy lessons
From the News Literacy Project.
By Valerie StraussGaslighting Americans about public schools: The truth about ‘A Nation at Risk’
A former staffer of the commission that produced the famous 1983 report explains how it came to be, and its disastrous effects.
By Valerie StraussThe impact of Alabama governor’s ouster of early childhood education chief
The move was over a widely and long-used teachers’ resource book.
By Valerie StraussWhy some marginalized people distrust the news
From the News Literacy Project.
By Valerie StraussPulitzer Prize-winning poet pens a letter to a local school board
Diane Seuss writes about her high school experience to the school board that controls schools she used to attend and that recently gained a conservative majority.
By Valerie StraussHigh stakes for Chicago schools in mayoral election
The two Democratic candidates in the April 4 mayoral runoff, Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas, offer sharply contrasting views for the future of Chicago public schools.
By Valerie StraussHow this public school’s focus on wellness and health benefits its community
From the new book titled “Schools of Opportunity: 10 Research-Based Models of Equity in Action.”
By Valerie StraussThe real story behind the state takeover of Houston public schools
Critics say it is part of a move to privatize education — not to improve public schools.
By Valerie StraussThis educator turned lawmaker wants to end misuse of standardized testing
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) is pushing legislation to let teachers give better tests to students.
By Valerie StraussHow to know you actually know something
The difference between learning and performing in an excerpt from Daniel Willingham's "How to Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy."
By Valerie StraussWhy student journalism matters
'I almost gave up on my one-week-old journalism career a few hours after I saw my first byline," writes a student journalist.
By Valerie StraussHow public schools can stop wasting millions of dollars
An analysis of the value -- or lack thereof -- of annual standardized testing by looking at how often the scores change year to year.
By Valerie StraussParents know best — except when they don’t
A look at the parents' rights movement and school vouchers.
By Valerie StraussCherry-picking climate data, limiting social media and more news literacy lessons
From the News Literacy Project.
By Valerie StraussA deep dive into whether -- and how -- homework should be graded
There is a grading revolution that looks differently about how to evaluate homework than is traditionally used in schools.
By Valerie Strauss