Electing Education
During last month’s midterm elections, education reform was a big issue in many races across the nation. The creation of more charter schools is at the core of most “reformist” agendas, but despite many...
Make the School Day Longer?
Will extra time in school help children make up for instruction lost because of the pandemic? The...
Flashing Red Over Reading
Results from the 2019 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) showed that reading scores for fourth- and eighth-graders in the U.S. have dropped since 2017, after several years of minimal upward progress, prompting cries...
The Right to Multiple Identities
Editorial by Dan Ward
The constitutional crisis in Spain’s autonomous region of Cataluña highlights the new reality of identification in our globalized world. Although many Catalans consider themselves to be both Catalan and Spanish, speak...
Take Poverty out of the Literacy Equation for Good
The federal economic stimulus package passed last month achieves something progressives have dreamed of for decades: monthly assistance for...
Diverse Reasons for Optimism
As we start a new year, it’s usually a good time to reflect upon the progress and shortfalls of the previous year while planning what we can hope to achieve in the coming year....
Let Teachers Be the Influencers
A recent NEA survey found that 55% of all educators plan to leave the profession earlier than expected due to pandemic-related stress.In just two years’ time, the US is expected to have about 200,000 fewer...
No Replacing the Personal Touch
Now that we’re about 25 years into the communication revolution and artificial intelligence has become the focus of the technology sector, predictions abound that faultless automated translation and interpretation systems will soon obviate the...
The Disintegration of Our Schools
Daniel Ward argues that expansion of the school voucher system could undermine integration
Growing up in a multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual environment is the basis for the establishment of the integrated society that most of...
Taking Digital Communication to Heart
As pandemic-induced school shutdowns have accelerated remote learning, the importance of personal connections between students, their teachers, aides, mentors, and peers has become a major concern—especially for marginalized students, including multilingual learners, who have...