Structure of Schooling by Megan Box

The ‘soft spot’ to unlocking schools’ hidden secrets

mbox4618 — 2025-02-14 03:13:22 UTC

I did not know there were that many public records available on school district happenings down to the building level, nor did I know how easy it was (at least in New York) to hide when a teacher breaks tenure due to criminal activity.

St. Paul school district halts enrollment slide. The secret: listening to immigrant communities

mbox4618 — 2025-02-15 22:01:11 UTC

I was so pleasantly surprised to read news of a public school district thinking this far outside the box with solutions to dwindling enrollment; it mirrors that of the charter schools they are trying to compete with.

This Hartford Public High School grad can’t read. What happened?

mbox4618 — 2025-02-15 22:42:26 UTC

There was no mention of ESL services being available in this district in the past or the present; my key takeaway is how critical ESL instruction is as a first line of defense in special education.

School secrets and sexual assault

mbox4618 — 2025-02-15 23:00:49 UTC

I learned that the problem described in the article from New York is not regionally specific.

Where Teacher Evaluation Went Wrong

mbox4618 — 2025-02-15 23:12:18 UTC

I had never previously heard of families opting out of standardized testing in protest to their district's teacher evaluation system, and I was pleasantly surprised by it.

East Greenwich teachers union votes no confidence in administrators

mbox4618 — 2025-02-15 23:23:14 UTC

This article raised questions in my mind about what can be done to raise the bar of excellence for district officials (especially since those positions may soon come to hold more power than they do today).

How Trump’s Policies Could Affect Special Education

mbox4618 — 2025-02-22 01:59:58 UTC

This article clearly identified some of the many layers of complexity to redefining the relationship between the federal government and our most vulnerable citizens' rights to FAPE.

Why children with disabilities are missing school and losing skills

mbox4618 — 2025-02-22 02:07:01 UTC

This article raised questions in my mind about whether the field of education suffers disproportionately from negative impacts to the whole a state's job market.

DOGE cuts $900 million from agency that tracks American students’ academic progress

mbox4618 — 2025-02-22 02:13:32 UTC

This article offers no solutions to reductions in federally-funded progress monitoring, and that made me want to seek out more data from others on that topic.

RFK Jr.’s school lunch plans spark Michelle Obama comparisons

mbox4618 — 2025-02-22 04:08:01 UTC

Of the differences explicitly noted between these two initiatives, the thing that stood out was how school lunch programs are not typically incentivized to regularly review new data in nutritional science.

Free School Lunches Proposed for North Dakotans

mbox4618 — 2025-02-22 04:18:58 UTC

The popularity of this bill and North Dakota's low population density makes North Dakota an optimal testing ground for universal free lunch, which could lead them to become a blueprint for other states.