School named after KKK grand wizard to be renamed — finally
Following a petition drive that garnered more than 160,000 signatures, a Florida school district will rename a high school whose current name commemorates a Confederate general and the first “grand wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan. Nathan B. Forrest High School in Jacksonville will soon be known as something else after the community made clear to the […]
U.S. academic group votes to boycott Israeli universities
Academic institutions generally promote the free expression of idea and unfettered cooperation among scholars and schools. But the membership of the American Studies Association, the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history, has voted to back an academic boycott of Israeli universities. The Web site of the […]
Study: Test-score gains don’t mean cognitive gains
In a finding that should give pause to backers of standardized test-based school reform, a new study by neuroscientists at three major universities shows that students who achieved the highest gains on standardized tests did not show the same gains in the ability to analyze material and think logically. The research, conducted by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute […]
What’s right — and very wrong — with the teacher education debate
This is the second of three parts of a series on the critically important — and currently hot — topic of teacher education, from scholar Mike Rose. He is on the faculty of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and author of books that include Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a […]
12-15-13 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: How much teachers get paid — state by stateHow much do teachers across the United States get paid? Here is data, state by state, collected from the National Center for Education Statistics by Jon Boeckenstedt, associate vice president at DePaul University in Chicago. The data are for 2013 and represent the estimated average annual salary of teachers in public elementary and secon