He has 10 years of experience working in the engineering division of Lockheed Martin, and he'd like to share some of his extensive knowledge with high school students in Northern Virginia, where he lives. He'd prefer to take a couple of hours each day to teach a class on physics or calculus, which would enable him to stay in his current job. Bill imagines that this part-time teaching job will give him the opportunity not just to teach, but to mentor local students aspiring to science careers.
The pandemic had to end sometime. Historians will ultimately place its climax at some point in 2022. It was the year that Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s most prominent public health authority, declared that the country was “out of the pandemic phase,” as COVID case rates plummeted from their Omicron highs. By the fall, President Biden […]
Federal test scores released last week illustrated the extent of COVID’s impact on K-12 learning, revealing the largest-ever math declines in the history of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. In virtually every state and major school district, fourth and eighth graders demonstrated far less mastery over the subject than students who took the test […]
Students’ lifetime income will suffer a loss of nearly $1 trillion as a result of the nation's dramatic learning decline, according to the results of a new study.
Colleges of education instill in aspiring teachers the values and capabilities they want them to exhibit in the classroom. But what if those values and pedagogical approaches don’t serve students well? What if colleges of education are training teachers to impart divisive content and in particular critical race theory? Colleges of education enjoy a long history of credentialing teachers in the United States. But today, many of those schools indoctrinate aspiring teachers in CRT, while doing little to boost actual effectiveness in the classroom.