National Reports Confirm What Teachers Know About Discipline Experienced teachers find deep satisfaction in teaching classes where the students work collaboratively with each other and the teacher to learn the...
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Mark Janus Wants You to Have a Choice For public school employees in twenty-one states and the District of Columbia the arguments made before the U.S. Supreme Court on February...
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Would Weighted Student Funding be Good for Your School? Last week, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, the Congress significantly increased the caps on federal spending that they imposed on...
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Why Are the States So Different? This month the National Center for Education Statistics released its, “First Look” report of state-by-state education expenditures for the 2014-15 school year. The report...
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Partisan Politics in Congress and the Teachers’ Lounge, and Merry Christmas from the President As we approach Christmas, and a well-deserved break for students and teachers, Congress still has a...
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ESEA Update -- Score One Point for Liberty but Much Left to be Done! The nation’s most important education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA, was first...
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I was blessed over the weekend to attend the Values Voters Summit held every year in Washington, D.C. The Summit is a good place to hear from influential individuals who...
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Do Americans Want School Choice, or After-school Religious Clubs? Every September, as students and teachers return to the classroom, national opinion polls on public education are released. This year the...
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The Discipline Dilemma – Classroom Management Skills are Part of the Solution Before Congress left town for their long summer vacation a group of 62 Democrats sent a letter to...
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Office of Civil Rights Takes a New Approach to Investigations Senator Patty Murray (D- Washington) raised objections about proposed new procedures for handling civil rights complaints that are filed with...
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