Who’s Responsible for Teaching Online Safety?

By Tim Walker Educators believe online safety, security and ethics should be taught in the nation’s schools, but many doubt their districts are doing an adequate job in preparing them for this task. That’s one of the key takeaways from a new study released by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA). The survey, State of [...]

New Report Shows Labor-Management Collaboration Transforming Schools

A new report, Partnerships in Education: How Labor-Management Collaboration Is Transforming Public Schools, highlights nine school districts from across the country where student achievement is flourishing through the work of labor-management partnerships. The report is from American Rights at Work Education Fund.

Duncan Calls for Urgency Around NCLB

While visiting Minnesota, “U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan called on Congress to replace the No Child Left Behind law before the next school year.” Source: KARE 11

Graduation Rates Up

New data from the National Center for Education Statistics show that “about 74.7 percent of high school students in the class of 2007-08 graduated on time, up from 72 percent of the class of 2002.” Source: Yahoo! News

World Environment Day – June 5

World Environment Day was started in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly. Its purpose is to stimulate worldwide awareness about environmental issues and their impact on humans. This year’s theme is “Life in the Forests.”For more information visit the United Nations Environment Programme website.

U.S. Ed Reforms Not in Line with Top Ranked Nations

“The United States’ education system is neither coherent nor likely to see great improvements based on its current attempts at reform,” according to a new report by the National Center on Education and the Economy. The report examines education systems in top-performing countries and suggests an agenda for the United States in line with those [...]

Education Groups Call for Relief from NCLB Mandates

By Alain Jehlen Three national education organizations, including the National Education Association (NEA), petitioned the Department of Education this week to use its regulatory powers to stop further harm to the nation’s public schools due to the so-called “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) law. The law is overdue for revision and there is a growing [...]

Protect the American Union by Supporting Public Schools

“Today, many policymakers subscribe to the notion that what is good for a few is good enough, even if at the cost of our Union,” writes John H. Jackson, President and CEO of the Schott Foundation for Public Education. “It’s time to call out these policies and the politicians who promote them for what they [...]

Academic Freedom Sold Off Cheap

By Mary Ellen Flannery What’s the price of academic freedom? At Florida State University, it looks like $1.5 million – or the amount donated by a right-wing billionaire who, in return, gets a final say in faculty hiring. The contract between the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation – and yes, that is the same Koch [...]

Judge Voids Wisconsin Collective Bargaining Law

Wisconsin’s law taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights from most public workers was struck down Thursday by a circuit court judge. The state Supreme Court has scheduled arguments for June 6 to decide whether it will take the case. Source: NPR

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