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‘Social Emotional Learning’ Now a Vehicle for Critical Race Theory 9 Mar 2021 Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) – the program of in-school “psychological training” for children – has now become a major vehicle for Critical Race Theory, the movement that serves as a foundation of identity politics and promotes the analysis of many aspects of life through the prism of race. Public schools have failed American students in the major academic areas of English, reading, and math, at the sa...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MONTPELIER — The Vermont House of Representatives Education Committee on Tuesday approved a trio of bills dealing with school facilities construction, a community schools program and a student literacy initiative. The school assistance bill passed 10-1, with Rep. Casey Toof, R-Franklin 3-1, the lone no vote. The bill requires the state Agency of Education to conduct a study of school facilities needs, as well as a study of how neighborin...

By Greg Hirst on March 9, 2021 (Dan Cepeda, Oil City) CASPER, Wyo —Natrona County School District Treasurer Dave Applegate said Monday said he’s concerned some lawmakers aren’t giving the proper credit to the state’s education system and the strong metrics posted by students. The Wyoming Legislature is considering a yearly $100 million cut to state schools this session, and Governor Mark Gordon has said the school funding model is unsustainable given the state’s projected $300 milli...

Wisconsins Focus on Education Yields Top 10 Ranking Kristin A. Bouchard © (Education Images/Getty Images) Memorial Union Building, University of Wisconsin campus, Madison. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) DE PERE, Wis.—Education has always been a priority in Wisconsin. Its no surprise that the inception of the states first public university, the University of Wisconsin—Madison, coincides with the states entry into the union as the natio...

Does offering parents the option of sending their children to public charter schools or providing them with scholarships to assist with private school tuition harm public education?

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MONTPELIER — With next Friday’s crossover deadline approaching, the House and Senate Education Committees are both working on bills aimed at improving literacy among the state’s youngest learners. The Senate proposal, which is a committee draft, and the House version, H. 101, date back to efforts made last year at responding to a 2019 dip in Vermont’s literacy scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP...

Allowing lawmakers to determine the floor at which individuals must be paid, rather than let businesses determine the different training or entry level wages driven by market values, will slow economic expansion and lead to more job losses.

The Kingsport Times-News on implementing higher quality history curriculum in Tennessee schools: There are lots of excuses for the continuing decline in teaching American history in public schools. But in some states, Tennessee for example, something is finally being done about it with Gov. Bill Lee expanding a program he began to recognize schools and districts that prioritize teaching history and civic values. We’ve been aware of the erosion in teaching history for decades. In 1985, the New...

America, we need to talk Sun Aug 16 2009 at 2:36:41 Its 2009. Near the corner of Future and Fucked, a group of men in battered work clothes is standing. Everybody in this group has a pocket communicator/computer more powerful than anything imagined in the original Star Trek: a device that they can use to talk to anybody else anywhere on the planet, listen to a whole days worth of music or pick out new music recommended for them by computers, or read any document in a computer network that con...

"The Department of Education is committed to supporting all states in assessing student learning during the pandemic to help target resources and support to the students with the greatest needs," said Ian Rosenblum, acting assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education. "We also recognize that at a time when everything in our education system is different, there need to be different ways that states can administer state tests like moving them to the fall so that precious in-person l...