Unveiling Education Trends

Texas Nonprofit Gets $790K Grant For Efforts To Boost Diversity In The Teaching Workforce

Texas Nonprofit Gets $790K Grant for Efforts to Boost Diversity in the Teaching Workforce Teaching Excellence, a teacher training program based in Texas, has been awarded a grant of $790,000 by the Walton Family Foundation. The grant aims to support the program in its mission to diversify the teaching workforce and broaden the impact of …

Time Magazine Honors Sandra Day O’Connor As Pioneer On Supreme Court — And In Civics Education

Time Magazine Honors Sandra Day O’Connor as Pioneer on Supreme Court — and in Civics Education Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice, believes that her most significant work began after she retired. Her efforts to teach civics to young people through the creation of iCivics earned her a place in Time magazine’s …

Senate Republican Leaders Seek Answers On Teachers Unions’ Influence Over CDC School Reopening Guidance

Senate Republican Leaders Seek Answers on Teachers Unions’ Influence Over CDC School Reopening Guidance Receive important news and analysis about education directly to your email inbox. Register here to receive the daily newsletter from . Prominent Republican senators on the Senate education committee are urging the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

Kansas School Leaders Urge Lawmakers To Fully Fund Special Education Services

Kansas School Leaders Urge Lawmakers to Fully Fund Special Education Services Receive stories like these directly to your email inbox. Subscribe to Newsletter. TOPEKA – Staying in his first-grade classroom is a challenge for 6-year-old Crosby Orlando. Crosby, who was born with Down syndrome, has been receiving therapy since he was four weeks old to …

Betsy DeVos’s Media Blitz, Recapped: The 10 Most Talked-About Exchanges From Her Sit-downs With 60 Minutes, Fox & Friends, & Today

Betsy DeVos’s Media Blitz, Recapped: The 10 Most Talked-About Exchanges From Her Sit-downs With 60 Minutes, Fox & Friends, & Today Education Secretary Betsy DeVos recently appeared on several national TV shows in an effort to promote the Trump administration’s school safety proposals. However, DeVos has been criticized for her performance, as she struggled to …

Democrats Move To Block Reported DeVos Proposal To Spend Federal Dollars On Guns For Schools, Education Department Calls It A ‘Hypothetical Scenario’

Democrats Move to Block Reported DeVos Proposal to Spend Federal Dollars on Guns for Schools, Education Department Calls It a ‘Hypothetical Scenario’ Senate Democrats took immediate action on Thursday morning to oppose Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ reported proposal to use federal funds to arm teachers. This proposal has been met with widespread disapproval, as many …

DeGrow: Resistance To DeVos Has Obscured The True Record Of Michigan’s Strong Charter Schools

DeGrow: Resistance to DeVos Has Obscured the True Record of Michigan’s Strong Charter Schools Michigan’s public charter schools are currently facing unwarranted criticism and are not being properly recognized for their effectiveness. The political climate has changed, and there is now a partisan opposition to public charter schools, which were once seen as a lifeline …