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Deseret News Here’s why data and dialogue are the key to improving equity, diversity and inclusion Utah is now a midsized state with strong global connectivity, population diversity and urban challenges, such as housing affordability, air quality and congestion Share this story Carol Matthews-Shifflett gives an elbow bump to Emma Houston, Salt Lake County Government Human Resources training development facilitator and former director of the Salt Lake County Office of Diversity and Inclusion, after the Utah Juneteenth Freedom and Heritage Festival and Holiday Commemorative Flag Raising Event...

By iHeartMedia's Corey Olson Apr 30, 2021 Liberal bias has been running rampant on college campuses for years, but one state is trying to give students the chance to fight back. Florida lawmakers are considering a bill to allow students to record their professors in class to expose possible bias. The bill would allow in-class recordings to be used in civil or criminal complaints, or for use by schools to determine if there is bias in the classroom. But it would not allow the recordings to be made public without the professor's consent. Frederick Hess, Director of Education Policy at the A...

A Teacher’s View: What Policymakers And The Public Don’t Understand About Reopening Schools Patch 2/24/2021 In summary By the time the safety recommendations are implemented and running smoothly, the school year will be ending. By Glenn Sacks, Special to CalMatters Glenn Sacks teaches Social Studies in the Los Angeles Unified School District, glenn@glennsacks.com. Teachers unions are under attack, as our well-founded concern for our students, their families, and yes, ourselves, is being portrayed as a political powerplay, or worse. Yet there are many problems with reopening which govern...

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Government Schools: More Bureaucracy, Lower Performance, And Higher Costs  Share   Share Trending Whenever I’m asked to give an example of a powerful and persuasive visual, I always have an easy answer. The late Andrew Coulson created a very compelling chart showing that huge increases in money and staff for government schools have not led to improvements in educational outcomes. All rational people who look at that image surely will understand that we’re doing something wrong. And if they review the academic evidence on government spending and educational results, they’ll definit...