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Should the Covid-19 vaccine be required for teachers and students?
As students once again head back to school amid increasing Covid cases and hospilizations, can states and districts legally require eligible students…
4 years, 9 months ago
Should state and local leaders send Covid cash to kids?
In March, state and local governments were given an unprecedented $350 billion in flexible funding to reduce hardships caused by the Covid-19 pandemi…
4 years, 10 months ago
Will summer learning help mitigate Covid learning loss?
When the coronavirus pandemic hit late in the 2019-2020 school year, its impact on student learning didn’t take a summer vacation. One year later, wi…
4 years, 10 months ago
What should Covid mitigation in K-12 schools look like this fall?
Back-to-school 2020 didn’t go as smoothly as hoped. Many districts that were slated to offer in-person learning abruptly changed to their reopening p…
4 years, 11 months ago
Should states ban Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools?
How did Critical Race Theory (CRT)—once relegated to graduate school seminars and academic journals—become one of the most hotly debated K-12 issues,…
4 years, 11 months ago
The right direction on Title IX (rebroadcast)
As the Biden administration begins the process of rewriting Title IX regulations and undoing many of the changes to made under Secretary Betsy DeVos,…
5 years ago
Has the Common Core failed?
In just three years, 45 states adopted the Common Core State Standards. By that metric alone, one might argue that the Common Core was a huge success…
5 years ago
How to Make College Worth the Expense
College is expensive. How can students and parents make sure that it pays off? On this episode of The Report Card with Nat Malkus, Beth Akers, reside…
5 years ago
Racial Achievement Gaps and Covid
Why have fewer Black and Hispanic students returned to their classrooms for full-time in-person learning relative to white students? And what effect …
5 years, 1 month ago
Hybrid Homeschooling: The Future of Education?
While hybrid education may appear to be an invention of necessity spurred by the pandemic, splitting instruction between traditional brick-and-mortar…
5 years, 1 month ago