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☆ Pandemic Learning Slide Continues for 13-Year-Olds, Making Full Recovery Unlikely
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ New York City Hopes Phonics Will Save It From National Reading Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Ben Chapman | Photographs Jeenah Moon For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Eighth-Graders’ History, Civics Test Scores Hit Record Low
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Test scores for U.S. history and civics indicate that few eighth-grade students are meeting proficiency standards. Photo: Mike Householder/Associated PressEighth-graders’ test scores in U.S. history and civics fell to the lowest levels on record last year, according to Education Department data released Wednesday. In the first release of U.S. history and civics scores since the start of the pandemic, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card, showed a decline in students’ knowledge that reversed gains made since the 1990s.

☆ Eighth-Graders Don’t Know Much About History, Test Scores Show
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Fake Calls About Active Shooters Are Hitting More Schools
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Fake 911 Calls About Active Shooters Are Hitting More Schools
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Biden Administration Proposes New Rule for Transgender Athletes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Ben Chapman | Laine Higgins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Under the proposed regulation, schools would have flexibility to develop team eligibility criteria that ensures fairness in competition or prevents sports-related injury. The Biden administration proposed a new rule Thursday that would prohibit wholesale bans on transgender athletes in college and K-12 education, but would allow them to be excluded from competitions if needed to maintain a level playing field. Under the proposed regulation, schools wouldn’t be permitted to adopt “one-size-fits-all” policies that categorically ban transgender students from participating on teams consistent with their gender identity, federal officials said.

☆ Biden Administration Proposes New Rules for Transgender Athletes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Ben Chapman | Laine Higgins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Under the proposed regulation, schools would have flexibility to develop team eligibility criteria that ensures fairness in competition or prevents sports-related injury. The Biden administration is wading into the combustible issue of transgender students in school sports with a proposed new rule that would prohibit wholesale bans on trans athletes but would allow them to be excluded from competitions if needed to maintain a level playing field. The new federal guidelines are an attempt to clarify how Title IX regulations that ensure equal access to education should apply to transgender athletes, a topic that has become a hot-button issue in college and K-12 sports.

☆ Suspect Killed After Shooting at Nashville Christian School
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Covenant School is a private, Christian school that enrolls about 200 students from prekindergarten to sixth grade . Police killed a suspect who opened fire at a private elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday morning, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. The Nashville Fire Department said first responders were treating multiple patients at the Covenant School at Covenant Presbyterian Church in the Green Hills neighborhood.

☆ Nashville School Shooting Leaves Six Dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Six people died in a shooting at a private school in Nashville, Tenn., that was carried out by a heavily armed 28-year-old female suspect, according to police. Three children and three adults were fatally wounded Monday morning by the suspect, who opened fire at Covenant School in the Green Hills neighborhood, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said. Police then shot and killed the suspect within minutes of arriving at the scene.

☆ Students Struggle Academically, Fight in Schools Amid Adderall Shortage
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Students nationwide who take medications that treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are struggling to behave and concentrate due to a continuing shortage of the drugs, families and school officials say. Children who haven’t had access to their medications are experiencing problems ranging from getting suspended from school to having trouble sleeping, parents in Arizona and Nevada said. In places such as Florida and New York, classroom behavior is worsening due to the shortages, according to teachers and school psychologists. College students in Michigan and California have said their academic work has been negatively affected because they have not been able to get their prescriptions filled.

☆ Audits of Covid-19 Aid for Schools Find Millions of Dollars Misspent
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The first day of classes in Michigan in September 2021. Millions of dollars in Covid-relief funds sent to school districts, colleges and state governments for education have been spent on questionable or potentially fraudulent expenses since 2020, federal and state auditors have found. The U.S. Education Department’s Office of Inspector General examined a sampling of the spending attached to more than $280 billion in federal pandemic funds, and identified faulty awards, double payments and improper contracts, according to reports recently released by the office.

☆ Audits of Covid Aid for Schools Find Millions of Dollars Misspent
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Cassie Gibson was teaching a unit on slavery last spring to her sixth-grade U.S. history class in Polk County, Fla., when she noticed a paragraph in a textbook that gave her pause. The passage struck her as potentially violating a 2022 law signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis —which he dubbed “Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (W.O.K.E.) Act”—that prohibits, among other things, teaching that people should feel guilt over past actions by members of their racial group. She said she worried what her students might say about the passage at home and how their parents might react.

Thomas Lee started doing leveraged buyouts in the 1970s, before the term had even been coined to describe such deals. The death of Thomas H. Lee sent shock waves Friday through Wall Street, where decades ago he helped create one of its biggest businesses. Mr. Lee, who started doing leveraged buyouts in the 1970s, before the term was coined and the tools to finance the deals had been invented, died Thursday, his colleagues and family said.

☆ Thomas H. Lee, Leveraged-Buyout Pioneer, Dies of Apparent Suicide
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Ted Bunker | Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Schools Lost Track of Thousands of Students Who Left During Pandemic, Study Shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An estimated 26% of children who left public schools during the first two years of the pandemic switched to home-schools, research shows. Districts have lost track of thousands of students who left public schools since the pandemic began, and it is unclear how many of them are truant or unreported home-schoolers, according to a new study. An analysis of enrollment data conducted by Stanford University in collaboration with the Associated Press found that there were no records last school year for more than 240,000 school-age children living in 21 states and the District of Columbia, which provided recent enrollment details.

☆ School Vouchers Gain Momentum as States Look at Learning Options
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kim Reynolds signed into law the Students First Act, which makes state education funding available for K-12 students who choose to attend private schools. More states are considering school vouchers after the creation last year of the country’s largest voucher program in Arizona, setting up new battles nationwide with educators who say vouchers drain money from public schools. States are proposing new voucher programs this year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced many families to reconsider schooling choices for their children.

☆ Schools Speed Up Covid-Aid Spending After a Slow Start
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Schools districts are spending the $122 billion in federal Covid-relief funds nearly twice as fast as they used to, and despite a slow start most are now on track to use the funds before they expire next year, according to the Education Department. Districts have spent about 27% of the education funding that was part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan disbursed in 2021, an increase from May when federal data showed 7% of the money was spent.

☆ Most U.S. Schools Don’t Feel Fully Prepared for Shootings Despite Adding Security
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Most U.S. public school districts don’t feel well-prepared to respond to active shooters, even after putting new safety measures in place, according to a newly released federal survey. Roughly two-thirds of public schools now control access to school grounds during the school day, up from 51% in the 2017-18 school year, according to the new figures published Thursday by the National Center for Education Statistics. Classroom doors have been fitted with locks by 78%, up from 65% five years ago. And 43% of schools now employ panic buttons or silent alarms that connect directly with law enforcement, up from 29%.

☆ Public Schools Lost More Than One Million Students During Pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Ben Chapman | Andrea Fuller | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Covid-19 struck as enrollment was already dropping in many cities due to declines in numbers of school-age children and the rise of other educational options. Public schools in the U.S. have lost more than a million students since the start of the pandemic, prompting some districts across the country to close buildings because they don’t have enough pupils or funding to keep them open. The school board in Jefferson County, Colo., outside Denver, voted in November to close 16 schools. St. Paul, Minn., last summer closed five schools. The Oakland, Calif., school board last February voted to close seven schools after years of declining enrollment and financial strife.

☆ Pandemic Learning Loss Could Cost Students $70,000 in Lifetime Earnings
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Ben Chapman | Douglas Belkin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Students are taking longer to learn concepts this year, require more tutoring and struggle to engage in group activities, according to a new study by a Stanford economist. Learning loss could shave $70,000 off the lifetime earnings of children who were in school during the pandemic, according to a new study by a Stanford economist. The sobering forecast is based on an analysis of the sharp declines in the scores of eighth-graders on national math tests taken between 2019 and 2022.

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