On July 10, 2020 we published a post “School District Caught Manipulating Attendance Records to Get More Money” which incorrectly cited Valley Park School district as the district reviewed by […]
UPDATED: We mistakenly reported this as Valley Park School District. The correct school district is Valley R-VI in Caledonia, MO. The Superintendent of the Valley R-VI school district is Michael […]
We were liberated from the fold, that’s allAnd the world looks just the sameAnd history ain’t changed‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war – Won’t Be Fooled […]
Last month the University of Missouri REQUIRED student athletes to install an app, SpotterEDU, on their devices to track their attendance in class. The justification was that the university was […]
Today’s post comes from Dr. Mary Byrne of the Missouri Coalition Against Common Core. DESE released the revised PROPOSED RULE 5 CSR 20-100.295 Missouri School Improvement Program 6 for public […]
MSIP (Missouri School Improvement Plan) is the process by which public schools in our state are evaluated for accreditation and the need for state level intervention. DESE is about to […]
World War I started, really, because Austria-Hungary wanted to stop the Serbian movement to create a Greater Serbia. They were planning to invade the country to make it part of […]
Dear Readers, We have referenced the work of Richard Phelps of the Non-Partisan Education Review in the past (see here and here). His work is critical to our discussion because […]
The old adage “If it walks like a duck…” comes to mind when you look at what the Springfield Public School Board is deciding to adopt for their “new’ math […]
The Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights regarding the sexual assault of a 5 year old little girl in […]
This weekend I had the honor of addressing the Eagle Council in Washington DC about cognitive science’s case for limited technology in the classroom. The Education Panel that I sat […]
Quietly, behind the scenes for most people, states have been falling one by one to the federal control of education baked into Sen. Lamar Alexander’s Every Student Succeeds Act. Secretary […]
We’ll take any ray of hope, no matter how small, at this point when it comes to being able to protect our children’s privacy. That ray came in a complaint […]