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Hard lessons for Betsy DeVos: Will she stay or will she go?
Over the last few months, news reports have touched on Betsy DeVos’ rising frustration with the inflexible bureaucracy of the U.S. Department of Education, the limited power of her office and the...
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Paper cuts: GOP tax plan ends teacher deduction for classroom supplies
Deep in the GOP tax plan overhaul released last week are changes that some education advocates contend advantage high earners and a school choice agenda at the expense of public education and...
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University of Georgia will announce first round of admitted students Friday
High school seniors who applied early action to the University of Georgia will find out Friday whether they made the cut, according to the UGA Admissions blog. UGA received nearly 15,000 early action...
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Opinion: Only wealthy can afford grad school under House tax plan up for vote...
Jenny C. Bledsoe is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in English at Emory University, specializing in medieval literature. She was featured in a New York Times story last week that examined how the GOP...
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Opinion: Don’t tax future scientists and engineers out of existence
The tax plan approved by the U.S. House earlier this month dramatically raises taxes for graduate students who earn tuition waivers in exchange for teaching or conducting research at their...
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If we spend more, will we get better schools?
In the last 20 years, I’ve attended so many seminars and read so many reports on school financing I could have earned a college minor by now. However, I remain unresolved on several big questions. Does...
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Immigrant children face challenges of new school, country, language
An educator with the Gwinnett County Public Schools, Nury Castillo Crawford was born in Peru but migrated to the United States as a child. In a new children’s book, Crawford finds inspiration in her...
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Opinion: Broken immigration system imperils dreams, accomplishments of students
Jason Esteves was elected to the Atlanta Board of Education in 2013. A former Teach for America teacher, Esteves taught middle school in the Houston Independent School District. He is now an attorney....
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Telling the story of resegregation through Marietta High School
Should a school district losing middle-class white families labor to lure them back or focus on the students now walking through its doors? That’s one of the big questions in a scholarly new book that...
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States now have more control over their schools. Will that improve them?
The Center on Education Policy at George Washington University surveyed state leaders on the Every Student Succeeds Act, the sequel to No Child Less Behind. Enacted two years ago as an antidote to the...
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GOP retools higher ed. Less regulation, more job training
Charged with updating the Higher Education Act, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce came up with the PROSPER Act — Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education...
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How will new federal tax law impact education, college loans?
I am off this week but thought this analysis of the education impact of the newly adopted federal tax code was worth sharing. It provides a succinct summary of some of the changes related to education....
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School discipline: Is kinder, gentler approach working?
My experience with strict discipline in a parochial school made me yearn for a kinder, gentler classroom for my own kids. What I didn’t realize is those ruler-wielding nuns created much more orderly...
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New study: Paying teachers bonuses can raise student achievement
A new study asserts that merit pay for teachers can improve student performance in math and reading and offers a cost-efficient option for districts to consider. The seven-year, $13.9 million study by...
View ArticleOpinion: Educators must help undocumented students feel safe, supported
In this guest column, three researchers talk about the thousands of children and young adults awaiting a decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA program, which grants protected...
View ArticleWhy are Georgia’s rural students overlooked?
Georgia has the nation’s third largest rural school population, yet few of the education proposals coming out of Atlanta benefit those nearly 380,000 students. Rural children represent 22 percent of...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos: Common Core is dead at U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos gave a far-ranging speech today in Washington at an American Enterprise Institute conference, “Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned.” She announced the...
View ArticleEvery Student Succeeds Act: Betsy DeVos approves Georgia’s blueprint for...
Based on Betsy DeVos’ repeated comments that the federal government ought to let states set their own course, I did not expect her U.S. Department of Education to veto Georgia’s education blueprint for...
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Opinion: Trump’s election fueled tensions in my diverse Cobb high school
Carlo Manuel is a senior at Wheeler High School in Cobb County. He is a writer and content creator for the school’s student-produced “Wildcat TV.” Carlo will attend Georgia State University next year...
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National Education Association to Betsy DeVos on her one-year anniversary:...
A year ago, Michigan billionaire Betsy DeVos took charge of the U.S. Department of Education. Her secretary of education nomination by President Donald Trump was controversial as DeVos brought no...
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