In ‘child care desert,’ Indiana district adds space for young children

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. When Sarah Nordin arrived to drop off her 3-year-old son for his first day of preschool in 2018, she was handed an...

Who Gets To Be A Hillbilly?

As I was scrolling through Instagram this morning, I came across an opinion piece published in the Washington Post that had been shared by Reading Appalachia called “When J.D. Vance called himself a hillbilly, it...

West Virginia Is Seizing The Moment To Make School Choice History. Will More Rural States Follow?

School choice and rural communities are a lot like oil and water: historically, they haven’t mixed. Efforts to expand educational options for families have instead been more focused on America’s cities, where access to...

Teaching Through A Pandemic Is Exhausting, But Here’s How I’m Beating Teacher Burnout

Teacher burnout is no joke. We routinely hear stories about the intensity of a teacher’s work day, and thanks to the pandemic, things are only getting harder. Last year, it was remote learning, hybrid...

More School Board Drama: OH, PA Among Latest To Cut Ties (And Others May Be Behind Them)

Five more states are distancing themselves from the National School Boards Association (NSBA). Last week, the state board associations of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Louisiana agreed to end their affiliations with the NSBA...

After The Last Year And A Half, We Must Never Forget How Resilient Students Are

"Kids today are too fragile. We're raising a generation of snowflakes!" It's a universal truth: As long as there are young people, there will be older people who complain about them. Today's generation of...

Times Are Tough. Asking Teachers to Get Tougher Isn’t the Answer.

This piece originally appeared with Education Post. Wednesday started out like any other; I left my house at 7:00 am to drive to my school campus, where I teach bilingual early childhood special education....

Kentucky Becomes Latest State to Distance Itself From NSBA

Kentucky is now one of the latest states to distance itself from the National School Boards Association (NSBA).  In September, the NSBA sent a letter to President Biden requesting federal intervention in school board incidents,...

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