ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Summer camps are winding down as we get closer to the start of the school year. And after visiting with some STEM camps in…
Read more STEM teacher goes above and beyond for Thurgood Marshall Middle studentsKey points: Every summer, I find myself in conversations with teachers and administrators trying to figure out why their current pedagogical practices are or aren’t working. So, once…
Read more Summer reading for teaching and school improvement: Harnessing the Science of LearningVanderbilt University has received a $75 million gift from NVIDIA President and CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, for its new San Francisco campus, which is slated…
Read more NVIDIA CEO Donates $75M to Vanderbilt San FranciscoThe Philadelphia deaf community has developed its own sign language ‘accent,’ and Penn researchers say they want to preserve the well-documented cultural phenomenon that is fading from popular…
Read more How deaf Philadelphians developed their own sign language ‘accent’House committee debates DEI impact on medical school standards The House committee debates the influence of DEI policies on medical school admissions and patient care standards. Lawmakers question…
Read more DOJ opens probe into Harvard’s financial aid for alleged discrimination against American studentsIn less than three weeks the Los Angeles school officials must show, under state law, how they will carry out the steepest budget cuts in a generation after…
Read more LAUSD on deadline to make painful cuts after county says board actions ‘erode confidence’Key points: When I taught Spanish, students would often ask, “Why do I need to learn this?” Many thought that learning a new language would only be useful…
Read more A second language is more than an elective—it’s a workforce skillHigher education has to rebuild public trust. That much is evident, and many of the ideas to address this challenge are coming out of our country’s wealthiest and…
Read more View From an RPU: What Rebuilding Trust Requires (opinion)TAMPA, Fla. — As the new school year approaches, rising prices for classroom supplies are creating additional financial strain for many families. While school districts adjust their budgets…
Read more Rising school supply costs increase financial strain on Tampa Bay familiesTAMPA, Fla. — Summer is coming to an end soon, and Bay area students will return to the classrooms. Take a look at the 2026-27 calendar for each school…
Read more Back-to-School in Tampa Bay: Start dates, holidays, early releasesAs I have now argued in three books and countless columns and articles, I believe that we should view our work as writers through the lens of a practice:…
Read more AI Scribes in Medicine Are Short-Circuiting ThinkingRALEIGH, N.C. — State officials have launched an audit into a quickly growing school voucher program, which receives hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money. The Opportunity…
Read more State audit launched into N.C. Opportunity Scholarship voucher programIn 2014, my father was diagnosed with cancer in Kenya. I was thousands of miles away, teaching at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and the helplessness I felt was…
Read more Cancer Took My Parents—and Showed Me How to Teach (opinion)The Virginia Board of Education may delay the full implementation of the state’s plan to raise academic benchmarks for reading and math by two years, rather than gradually…
Read more After criticism, Va. proposes two-year delay in raising school standards – WTOP NewsAUSTIN, Texas — The Texas education board will vote Friday on a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes Bible passages, widening…
Read more Texas school board to vote on required Bible readings in public educationKey points: Cyber resilience in education starts at the data layer. That is because the data layer is where schools’ most important information lives and where recovery begins…
Read more For schools, cyber resilience starts at the data layerWe have so many theories of motivation—self-efficacy, goal setting, goal orientation, expectancy-value of goal achievement and most recently self-determination—backed by many thousands of research articles and books. You…
Read more Try Specs Grading to Motivate Students (opinion)CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Schools announced this week that Superintendent Crystal Hill is on temporary leave with pay. The district said there’s an investigation but provided little detail. …
Read more CMS superintendent put on temporary leave with payWhen it comes to “20 East Coast beach towns worth a visit, from Florida to Maine,” Conde Nast Traveler magazine put Rockport on its list last month. The…
Read more ROCKPORT RAMBLINGS: Rockport named top beach townThe Trump administration ended the system of regional accreditation in 2019. That change is now fueling some updates at higher ed’s top accreditors. A long-standing member is leaving…
Read more NWCCU Announces Split From C-RAC
