When tiger kids become parents
Credit: JooHee Yoon/New York Times The son of tiger parents, lawyer Ryan Park wants to raise his daughters to be “happy, confident, and kind,” he writes in the New York Times. They don’t have to be...
View ArticleSummer jobs aren’t for teens any more
Immigrant adults are taking summer jobs once done by U.S. teenagers, writes Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner. “Immigrants — legal and illegal — are crowding out U.S.-born teenagers in the labor...
View ArticleUkrainians, but not Afghans, get fast track to U.S.
Ukrainian refugees are getting a warmer welcome than Afghans, according to a group of refugee advocates and Democratic senators, writes Ilya Somin in Reason. Ukrainian refugees crossing into Poland....
View Article‘Refugee High’ copes with Afghans
Omar, who had little schooling in rural Afghanistan, is learning English at Chicago’s Sullivan High School. Photo: Taylor Glascock/WBEZ My mother’s old high school in Chicago (class of ’44), Sullivan...
View Article‘Russian’ school gets a new name
A “Support Ukraine” rally in Indianapolis on April 9. Children still come for after-school classes in math, science and chess, but the “Russian School of Indiana” has changed its name in response to...
View ArticleThe Ukrainians are coming
California schools have begun to welcome Ukrainian refugee children, reports Carolyn Jones on EdSource. So far, it’s only a few students, but there are large Ukrainian communities in Sacramento, Los...
View ArticleTrying is not the same as achieving
Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but in colleges, writes Adam Ellwanger on the Martin Center blog. What’s known...
View ArticleMiddle school to manufacturing
Destini Williams and Amrose Bhujel test vehicles they’ve made from trash at Woodward Park Middle School in Columbus, Ohio. Photo: Maddie McGarvey/Education Week Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning...
View ArticleImmigrants want working English
Darcie Sebesta teaches basic English at Community College of Denver. Photo: Jason Gonzales/Chalkbeat At Community College of Denver, practical, job-oriented English classes grew from 50 to 400 students...
View ArticleUkrainian children are learning, far from home
Ukrainian refugee children play in a school gym in Poland. Photo: Joe English/UNICEF More than half of Ukraine’s children have fled their homes, reports Anya Kamenetz on NPR. At least two million are...
View ArticleMiddle school to manufacturing
Destini Williams and Amrose Bhujel test vehicles they’ve made from trash at Woodward Park Middle School in Columbus, Ohio. Photo: Maddie McGarvey/Education Week Middle-schoolers in Ohio are learning...
View ArticleDad seeks teacher data, becomes ‘Enemy # 1’
Luke Rosiak’s new book, Race to the Bottom, blames public schools’ problems on special interests that put ideology before education. Rosiak, who broke the story of how Loudoun County, Va. school...
View ArticleUnjust America: The picture book
Preet Bharara, a former federal prosecutor, has written a new children’s book, Justice Is … , which claims to be a “guide for young truth seekers.” It extols historical figures who “stood for justice,”...
View ArticleLandslide! SF recalls woke school board members
A parent-led recall has ousted three San Francisco school board members who kept schools closed — middle and high schoolers were out for 18 months — while the board focused on repainting a historic...
View ArticleCabbie’s daughter: Elite school is ‘my way out’
Tausifa Haque, a 17-year-old daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants, joins “a river of teenagers who pour into Brooklyn Technical High School — Bengali and Tibetan, Egyptian and Chinese, Sinhalese and...
View ArticleNo test scores, no transparency
Harvard’s move to test-optional admissions through 2026– applicants won’t have to submit SAT or ACT scores — will be great for admissions officials, writes Megan McArdle in a Washington Post...
View ArticleFree speech trumps ‘offensiveness’
Oregon’s Liberty High School must respect a student’s free-speech rights to wear a “Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co.” T-shirt, reports Maxine Bernstein on Oregon Live. “A federal judge...
View ArticleRemember when every kid counted?
Tracy Dell’Angela remembers when affluent suburban schools had to “worry about whether all their students made the grade — not just some of them, not just the White ones and the middle-class ones.”...
View ArticleStudents stranded in Afghanistan
Afghan refugee family in America. Photo: Opening Doors Sacramento-area school officials are trying to help students trapped in Afghanistan and their families get home, report Sawsan Morrar and Jason...
View ArticleAbsenteeism is way, way up
Photo: Pexels/Pixabay Absenteeism is way up in California schools due to quarantines, Covid fears and disengaged students, reports Carolyn Jones in EdSource. Stockton Unified said that so far, 39% of...
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