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36% satisfied with US K-12 education quality, matching record low in 2000
76% of K-12 parents satisfied with own child’s, 41% with US, education
Republicans’ satisfaction with K-12 education at new low of 25%
WASHINGTON, DC — Americans’ satisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the US has fallen six percentage points in the past year to match the record-low 36% reading on this measure, which Gallup has tracked for 24 years. In contrast, parents of K-12 students remain largely satisfied with the quality of the education their oldest child is receiving, as… Read More
Legislation (S.1732/A.6091) amends the education law to require that student governments in high schools or district wide areas are established where they currently do not exist. The board of education or trustees of each school district serving high school students in grades nine through 12 with no districtwide or school building peer selected student government must establish a student government system.
State Senator Shelley Mayer said, “Participation in student government is a direct, hands-on way for young people to experience and learn the value of representative democracy. I am pleased every high school student in New York State will have… Read More
The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) on Monday released school grades for the 2022-23 school year.
As a part of Florida’s first-in-the-nation transition to using progress monitoring instead of traditional high stakes testing, grades for the 2022-2023 school year serve as a baseline and carry no negative consequences, according to a news release.
Using these results as a baseline, schools and districts can work toward improved performance in future years, school officials said.
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FDOE developed a new test, Florida’s Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST). Unlike end-of-year high stakes testing, FAST is a progress monitoring… Read More
It’s the start of English 11 class at Birmingham Charter in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, and teacher Lindsay Humphrey has planned an activity to show how computers experience sound. She will play a song and then ask the students to guess which visual waveform represents the music they heard. The point of the lesson: Music is one of many examples where computers “see” differently from humans. For many in the class, this will be their first exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) technology, and she’s excited to see how they react to it.
Humphrey is a Stanford Hollyhock… Read More
