Valerie Strauss
Washington Post
Washington, DC, United States
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Online safety measures, an altered DeSantis video and other news literacy lessons
From the News Literacy Project. → Read More
For some, a return to school under dire circumstances. See the photos.
At least 40 percent of students in Ukraine can’t go back to school full-time. → Read More
A program to cut school suspensions in Chicago worked very, very well. Here’s how.
Why this restorative justice effort worked. → Read More
The big problem(s) with grades
Excerpt of a new book on the ways assessment of students in schools undermine learning. → Read More
Jamaal Bowman, a principal turned congressman, has a message for students
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) writes an open letter with advice for students as they start a new school year — and an offer to help any who needs it. → Read More
Five of Little Rock Nine on Arkansas’ attempt to erase Black history
The authors integrated a Little Rock high school in 1957 in what became an iconic part of the civil rights movement. → Read More
The irony of Black history legislation in Florida
A Black educator tells his story of trying to teaching authentic Black history and where Florida fits in. → Read More
A fundamental driver of persistent school segregation
Housing policy is school reform policy. → Read More
Trump prosecutor helped send Atlanta teachers to jail in cheating scandal
The prosecution used the same law aimed at mobsters that was used against former president Donald Trump and others. → Read More
Florida says it doesn’t want indoctrination in schools — but look at the materials it just approved
The materials come from a right-wing organization that has asked other states to approve its offerings, too. → Read More
The untold history of affirmative action — for White people
Leslie Fenwick, educator and historian, writes about what is lacking from the leveling-the-playing-field narrative about affirmative action policies. Educator Patrick Swygert writes about what he calls a project to turn back the clock on rights for women and African Americans. → Read More
How to fix the damage done to schools by federal school reform laws
Here are the results of a multiyear effort involving two dozen leading scholars of education on how to ensure real accountability in public schools after No Child Left Behind and its successor, the Every Student Succeeds Act. → Read More
What it really takes to help students succeed
Four key lessons taken from exemplary public schools. → Read More
The new breed of charter schools pushing limits on separation of church and state
A report from an advocacy group provides details. → Read More
On the latest obsession with phonics
Three reading experts challenge the current education orthodoxy about phonics instruction. → Read More
What new civics test scores show us, besides the obvious
Following the release of NAEP standardized test scores showing a drop in students’ knowledge, civics education experts offer a prescription for how to do better. → Read More
Florida rejects social studies topics about communism, social justice
It blocked 35 percent of the materials publishers submitted, including a reference to “taking a knee.” → Read More
Banning clothes with political slogans at school, and other news literacy lessons
From the News Literacy Project. → Read More
The impact of Alabama governor’s ouster of early childhood education chief
The move was over a widely and long-used teachers’ resource book. → Read More
Why some marginalized people distrust the news
From the News Literacy Project. → Read More