Lockdown and active shooter simulations look and feel very different, though people often lump the two practices together.
Articles on US Schools
Displaying 1 - 20 of 56 articles
More than 25 states require students to learn to read and write in cursive.
New research shows that YouTube is used not just as an occasional supplement, but as a staple of classroom instruction.
As schools focus more on evidence-based reading instruction, less time is available for children to practice reading for pleasure.
Homeschooling trends are on the rise, bucking the narrative that most of its growth was caused by the pandemic.
Most states have some sort of requirement for a minimum number of lockdown drills a year, but there is no set federal guidance.
More school systems are providing digital devices for students to use in the classroom, making it harder to justify students having personal cellphones in class.
Detroit has one of the highest chronic absenteeism rates in the nation, which can have devastating effects on student success.
People spend less on groceries, restaurants and public activities for months after a fatal school shooting − costing communities millions.
The Supreme Court has twice weighed in on ‘release time’ policies, and many states allow districts to implement them.
Not all teachers comply when asked to adjust student grades. An education scholar takes a look at what happens when they don’t.
The education technology sector constantly offers new products to solve old problems. Will anything be different this time?
Being aware of ignorance and fallibility can make people more teachable, and perhaps it could make people feel helpless and disempowered.
The same boldness that enabled hip-hop to endure can benefit teachers in the classroom, a hip-hop scholar writes.
Many students say they aren’t learning much about slavery beyond its harsh conditions. A historian explores how Juneteenth offers opportunities to change that reality.
Teachers judged the same math work differently based on whether the work was associated with male or female names.
Parents who had positive experiences in school often select schools for their children that are similar to the ones they attended – but if they had a bad experience they avoid those kinds of schools.
Polarization among the public and politicians threatens to undermine educational progress made over the past few decades.
An education professor explains how a hit TV show about a struggling school became a jumping-off point for a course about urban education.
An expert on adolescent sexuality weighs in on how technology has changed the amount and type of pornography that teens can consume – and what that means when it happens at school.
Top contributors
-
Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
-
Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
-
Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Wayne State University
-
Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
-
Assistant Professor of Education, UMass Lowell
-
Assistant Professor of Higher Education, West Virginia University
-
Chair in Education and Professor, University of Nottingham
-
Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University
-
Professor of Literacy, Language and Culture, University of Maine
-
Assistant Professor of Education and of Labor and Employment Relations, Penn State
-
Visiting Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership, UMass Lowell
-
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University
-
Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin
-
Associate Professor of Education, University of Richmond
-
Professor of Leadership, Counselor Education, Human and Organizational Development; Executive director, Call Me MISTER, Clemson University