District Administration Read More ​ Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has issued cease and desist letters to three St. Louis County school districts. Bailey said he has received reports that the Lindbergh, Parkway and Webster Groves school districts have been discriminating against students and staff based on their religion or race. Bailey accused the Webster…

Tech & Learning Read More ​ISTELive and the ASCD annual conference will co-locate starting next year in San Antonio, Texas  ​

This story was originally posted in the Houston Chronicle by Kennedy Sessions Some Houston ISD parents are expressing frustration and concern about the future of their schools after Superintendent Mike Miles notified hundreds of principals that they must improve or risk losing their jobs. Tim Sinyak, a parent with two children at Love Elementary in…

Education – The Conversation Read More ​Movement was an essential part of Gloria Merriex’s lessons at Duval Elementary School in Gainesville, Fla. Courtesy of Boaz Dvir When Duval Elementary – a school that served mostly Black and poor students in East Gainesville, Florida – failed the state’s high-stakes standardized test in 2002, district leaders pressured…

District Administration Read More ​ Superintendent Amy Carter couldn’t afford an instrument in high school, so she had to find another way into the band. She joined the flag corps and became its captain and got a band scholarship to Mississippi Valley State University. There, the band director inspired her to begin learning to play…

Education Next Read More ​ This is the third in a series on doing educational equity right. See the  introductory post and part two on school finance . If school funding is the issue around which it’s easiest to find common ground across left and right, school discipline might be the hardest. That shouldn’t be surprising,…