Across the country, teachers are grappling with how their roles have expanded, from educator and counselor to bodyguard and protector. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 20, 2018 Full story
Providing a safe environment for students has become as much a concern to school officials these days as educating them. PennLive.com, Feb. 15, 2018 Full story
Over the next four days, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has promised to fix a problem with partisan gerrymandering of the state’s 18 congressional districts that, in a Feb. 7 opinion,… Read More
President Donald Trump is calling for a focus on mental health and school safety in response to shootings like the one that took 17 lives in Florida, but his budget… Read More
Could anyone have stopped this? That’s one of the biggest questions for schools and educators as the nation takes in the facts of the shooting in Parkland, Fla., that has left… Read More
Overall, 59% of rural high school grads — white and nonwhite, at every income level — go to college the subsequent fall. That’s a lower proportion than the 62% of… Read More
Thursday is the final day for Governor Tom Wolf to submit a redrawn congressional map to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. If any map is submitted, it almost certainly won’t be… Read More
On June 21, 2017, Governor Wolf signed Act 6 of 2017 (“Act 6”) into law. Act 6, which amended section 121 of the Pennsylvania School Code, 24 P.S. § 1-121,… Read More
Back in 1975, more than one-fifth (22%) of college students majored in education — a higher share than any other major. By 2015 though, fewer than one in 10 Americans… Read More
On a February afternoon in a Brooklyn classroom, 16-year-old Taylor Engler came face to face with a cow. But it was all in her head. A virtual reality headset had… Read More