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Three people died in a Houston Flea Market and a California church today. And yesterday, an 18-year old targeted a black neighborhood in Buffalo

With a resurgence of the pandemic—and the reminder of its lasting damage because we will mark 1 million who have died from it this

For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 22, 2022 Contacts:Tony Pals, tpals@aera.net(202) 238-3235 Marla Koenigsknecht, mkoenigsknecht@aera.net(202) 238-3233 AERA Statement on the Significance of Academic Freedom in a Divisive Political Climate

On April 6, 2022, the House Labor, Health and Human Services committee heard testimony from Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond entitled, “Social and Emotional Learning and

How might we envision new classroom procedures that attend to the latest research findings? Without getting bogged down in the research, let’s sketch out

Teachers and students are back in K-12 schools but the negative effects of the pandemic on schools are just beginning to be documented. We

There are new grants from the Education Department called Competitive Grants for State Assessments. These grants are part of a larger thought that we need to

The New Hampshire Commissioner of Education, Frank Edelblut, has proposed to narrow the State’s curriculum in order to allow teachers to focus on the

Let’s say there are no more resources, no more time, and no more political ways to change education. If all we can do is

Education Stops for War As the Russian war of aggression continues, my thoughts turn to students who are displaced by the war, the teachers

On Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights movement for voting rights, the marchers’ cause became America’s cause, and

Teacher Shortages Media coverage of American K-12 teacher shortages have appeared regularly over the last ten years. The reasons for this decade-long decline involve

Researchers work very hard to gather relevant data in their work. When designing a study, researchers carefully consider their main question, the number of

Although we are all back to school, the Pandemic is in its third year and the wear and tear on our society is evident.

It is hard to talk about improving schools without talking about improving teachers. But to be clear, teachers are secondary to the parents of

27 million parents of K-12 school-age children struggle to bring in enough money to fully sustain their family. When their children struggle to eat

The COVID-19 pandemic, remote learning, masking, and social distancing are just the most obvious examples of the radical challenges experienced by schools in the

America is underwater from the Pandemic. More than 400,000 cases are reported daily on CNN and that is up 103% from last week. Schools

When I was young, I played sports all the time. I was attracted to sports as an outlet for my energy and how when

Halfway through A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens writes about the miserly Scrooge who is being visited by a second ghost of Christmas Present. The Spirit

If you visit K-12 classrooms today, they look much the way they have always looked in modern memory. A standing teacher leads sitting students

Long ago (1999) I wrote my dissertation on Teacher Opinion of Student Assessment. In a survey of 253 K-12 public school teachers in New York

Indeed they do! Today’s thoughts are about civil rights in the United States so naturally we look to the US Department of Education for