Whitney Tilson created quite a stir, in financial and education sectors, when he declared that the online learning industry had “run amok.” The hedge-fund manager/ed
Category: DC-Area Education
Literacy Volunteers and Advocates
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” — Rita Daniels, executive director of DC’s Literacy Volunteers and Advocates, says this Buddhist proverb applies
Student Rights Alliance: ACLU and law students work to reverse the school-to-prison pipeline
Thousands of students in DC Public Schools are suspended every year. Moreover, contrary to DC law, DCPS appears to be imposing harsher than necessary sentences,
Shutdown, Schools, and Stress: Resources and Responses
Federal employees may be back at work, but that doesn’t reduce the stress on many families at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School
Shutdown Stress Goes to School: Temporary Resolution of Govt Shutdown Leaves Financial, Emotional Impacts on Schools, Students
“Uncertainty is stressful,” says Dr. Mary Alvord, a psychologist experienced in helping children and adolescents deal with anxiety. Even as a temporary resolution to the
DC, a “Human Rights City”? Education Challenges
Washington, DC, home of The Education Town Hall, was the first jurisdiction to become a “Human Rights City” in 2008, in recognition of the 60th
Education Town Hall Forum 