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The federal Institute for Education Sciences, through the Regional Education Laboratory Midwest, recently published a study of educational attainment in Indiana, comparing results of students who attended traditional public schools, public charter schools, private schools via the Indiana Choice Voucher Program, and private schools without a voucher. The researchers used student-level data from the state […]
Kids are heading back to school. Vaccines are getting stuck into peoples’ arms. The federal government has kept the spending spigot open. It looks more than likely that by the time school starts up next year, K–12 education will be back to pre-pandemic normality. Or will it? Has the pandemic changed opinions and practices in […]
My new book, Hybrid Homeschooling: A Guide to the Future of Education, releases March 14. I wrote the vast majority of it before the pandemic, when hybrid homeschooling was confined to a small but dedicated group of educators and families in private, charter and traditional public school districts across the country. The coronavirus completely changed […]
Up to this point, we’ve talked about unbundling what we might call “ancillary” school services like transportation, food, professional development, and remedial education. Now, it is fair to note that thinking of these as ancillary is probably insufficient because if kids can’t get to school, they can’t do anything else. Seems pretty essential. But that […]
The greatest superpower the world has ever known laid low by a pandemic, driving divisions that eventually lead to its downfall. Sound worrying? No, we’re not talking about America, we’re talking about Ancient Rome. In the year 165 AD, a plague (probably smallpox) began to ravage the Roman Empire, killing roughly 20 percent of the […]
If you wanted to construct a school in a laboratory that would be most affected by a global pandemic, you’d be hard pressed to create one more affected than the International School of Indiana (ISI). With a faculty and student population from all over the world, including places hit hard by COVID-19 and a recruiting […]
What do you do when you educate children from 13 states and 50 countries and a global pandemic strikes? This is the question the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in Rabun Gap, Georgia, has been dealing with for more than two months now. Before our current unpleasantness, I had never heard of this school. I really wish […]
Like many schools, Christ Lutheran School in Phoenix was on spring break when it became clear that COVID-19 was going to disrupt the school year. The school serves preschool through eighth grade. On the Friday of their week-long break (Friday the 13th, no less!), the administration met to game plan what changes might need to […]
Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua, New Hampshire, sent its first coronavirus-related communication to parents on February 27, 2020. Yes, you read that right. They were looking at trends and thinking about contingencies weeks before many other schools and school systems. I know they sent this communication because they have created a specific page on […]
The Oaks Academy is a classical-model, purposefully racially and socio-economically diverse, private school in Indianapolis educating more than 900 students across three campuses. It has routinely been ranked as one of the highest performing schools in Indiana on the state’s ISTEP exam. As a classical school that focuses on great books and big ideas, technology […]