Not everything to come out of the pandemic is bad. In fact, there’s been some really positive trends in the area of education.
Kerry McDonald, FEE Senior Education Fellow, outlined four positive education trends in 2021.
Not everything to come out of the pandemic is bad. In fact, there’s been some really positive trends in the area of education.
Kerry McDonald, FEE Senior Education Fellow, outlined four positive education trends in 2021.
Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education legislation has been causing an uproar with the mainstream media. The “Don’t Say Gay” bill, as critics call it, prohibits public school teachers from teaching kindergarten to third graders about sexual orientation or gender identity. While the media is saying proponents of the bill are conspiracy theorist, Christopher Rufo…
Oppose a bill to increase school spending and you are said to be robbing children of the resources they need to succeed in the classroom. But what if more money wasn’t actually the solution to America’s public education system? Recently Dan Mitchell created a graph on public school spending that tells an interesting story. While…
Learning pods popped up across the United States during 2020 because they solved several pain points about distance learning, including childcare needs for working parents and social interaction needs for kids. Learning pods are small groups of students, many times six or less. They are run by either a parent or a hired teacher who…
Is Clark County School District’s new grading policy really helping students? It certainly doesn’t seem like it! When students returned to in person learning in the fall of 2021, the district had implemented a new grading policy that gives every student a minimum of a 50, as well as prohibiting teachers from penalizing students for…
As Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald points out, our current school model was established at the beginning of the Industrial Age. It was created to prepare students to spend their lives working in a factory. But in today’s Imagination Age, this model is actually hurting the students it is supposed to be teaching. Students who…
What if your mission to choose your child’s learning environment affected more than just you? For one mom of 4, her desire to give her own children a fear-free education turned into an opportunity to help other parents do the same. Jill Perez, a certified middle school teacher for over 20 years, founded a flexible…