More Thoughts on Why Students Skip School
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Emily Richmond is the public editor for the National Education Writers Association. She was the education reporter for the Las Vegas Sun from 2002 to 2010, and in 2011 she was Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. She blogs at www.educatedreporter.com.
Responding to reader questions about the limitations and lessons of a survey on truancy More »
Think it's mostly poor kids or kids with jobs who are truant? Think again. More »
Schools that are most likely to struggle financially also have the hardest time applying for competitive grants -- and a rule change will make it even harder. More »
In response to vandalism and threats, a UC fact-finding team is recommending a ban on campus-backed protests against Israel. Will these limits only make things worse? More »
When it comes to teaching girls about science, engineering, technology, and math, how far along are we, really -- nearly 30 years after Ride cracked NASA's space ceiling? More »
Plus more states freed from No Child Left Behind requirements, this week at the Department of Education. More »
The university must decide how to begin rebuilding trust. More »
As school reform accelerates, a huge majority of teachers turn to their unions for support -- sometimes with divergent interests. More »
Forty years after the passage of Title IX, the National Women's Law Center and the Office for Civil Rights are still working to guarantee equal athletic opportunities for girls. More »
Post-secondary programs, especially for-profit ones, can now be cut off from government aid if their graduates aren't finding work. More »
Students might be able to fill in the right answers on a national assessment of science learning, but they don't necessarily have a deep understanding of the material. More »
Housing patterns, not laws, are causing today's crisis. But John F. Kennedy's critique of American education still rings dismally true. More »
Funding, policies, and regulations can only go so far. Without a desire to learn, America's students will continue to stagnate. More »
A parochial high school in Arizona forfeited a state championship game because the other team had a female on its roster. More »
Green Valley High School in Henderson, Nevada, is the 13th best in the nation, according to the prestigious list. But the principal says that's impossible. More »
Educators have to walk a fine line between engaging students in current events and advocating for a specific cause. More »
At least in California, stimulus money for failing schools appears to be closing the achievement gap. Whether this will amount to long-term growth is yet to be seen. More »
Merit-based pay systems reward educators whose classes earn high test scores. But it's questionable whether these incentives actually work. More »
The government has allocated billions of dollars to help failing schools restructure, but without a clear definition of what constitutes a turnaround, the money may only be a temporary fix. More »
A new report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution suggests that many school around the country are cheating on standardized test results. More »
