by Alia Wong | Jun 12, 2023 | uncategorized
After a day full of math and reading lessons, third grader Ashley Soto struggles to concentrate during a writing exercise. She’s supposed to be crafting an essay on whether schools should serve chocolate milk, but instead she wanders around the classroom. “My brain is...
by Alia Wong | Mar 27, 2023 | uncategorized
Earlier this year, the School District of Palm Beach County in Florida quietly stopped using the phrase “social-emotional learning,” or SEL. The educational model – which teaches skills such as self-awareness, empathy and resilience – has over the past couple of...
by Alia Wong | Nov 3, 2022 | uncategorized
Complaints about special education violations. Praise for teachers. Concerns about academic rigor and options. These are some of the main themes in a sampling of the emails sent to a so-called tip line set up by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin earlier this year for...
by Alia Wong | Jun 9, 2022 | uncategorized
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Wearing a tutu and a messy ponytail, CJ RainingBird, 4, sprawls out on her carpeted living room floor, scribbling on a notebook. She looks up eagerly after completing each pen stroke, her eyes widening and her mouth stretching into a grin when she...
by Alia Wong | Mar 23, 2022 | uncategorized
Amy Funes has been researching homeless shelters in case she and her 2½-year-old son, Leo, are evicted from their apartment in Queens, New York. The notice is bound to come any day now, Funes says. Her housing subsidies cover just a fraction of her $850-a-month...
by Alia Wong | Feb 28, 2022 | uncategorized
NĀNĀKULI, Hawaii – When Kalehua Krug became principal of Ka Waihona O Ka Na‘auao several years ago, he and his team cut down some age-old trees that towered over the charter school’s front lawn. The decision caused “a bit of a stir” in the rural, coastal West...
