education
A place to hash out all opinions on education policy, charter schools, statewide testing, and what the political world is and isn't doing about it.
Is there a conspiracy against our education?
What keeps you up at night? What keeps you up at night? What does freedom mean to you? What things concern you the most? Maybe it is the school fees. Perhaps the stresses of deadlines, or maybe it is those bills on the kitchen counter?
Kay-Ann JohnsonPublished 2 years ago in The Swamp
The Global Impact of Coronavirus on Education
UNESCO states that the amount of students that are absent in schools globally due to the COVID-19 virus is “unparalleled”. Having an impact on almost 290 million students across the globe.
Greater Manchester Wants Police-Free Schools
In January of this year it was revealed that the number of homicides across the United Kingdom had fallen for the first time in 5 years. Yet the perception remains that, as a nation, we face a growing threat from violent crime and in particular from knife crime. It's a perception that evokes strong reaction, especially when the human cost of carrying a weapon hits home in our communities. Even a single life lost due to carrying a knife is one life too many.
Shaun EnnisPublished 2 years ago in The Swamp
Addressing Climate Change Begins in the Country's Classrooms
Dear Mrs. DeVos, Sometimes it takes an outsider to see the great opportunities the educational system of the most influential country in the world is missing.
Daniella MiniPublished 2 years ago in The Swamp
Dear Doug Ford And Stephen Lecce: I Have Had Enough
To Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Stephen Lecce: I am a parent of two girls, ages 15 and a half and 11, and I have had enough with your lies and your threats when it comes to Ontario's education system.
Christina St-JeanPublished 2 years ago in The Swamp
Betsy DeVos’ Idiotic American Slavery Comparison to Pro-Choice is Dead Wrong
As soon as she was appointed to the government post of U.S. Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos (pictured) stoked an abundance of fear into the hearts of middle and lower-class American parents who are reliant on the public school system.
Victor TrammellPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp
Come on Czech Republic, why so low?
The Czech Republic has dropped in this year’s global ranking of press freedom all the way to the 40th position, which represents another six-spot decline since the year 2018. The country has an index score of 24.89, which is still constituting a marginally satisfactory situation, but in the opinion of some Czech journalists, also a significant step back.
Anna DohnalováPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp
66% of Students Fail Reading Test in Half the States
America’s fourth and eighth graders are losing ground in their ability to read literature and academic texts, according to a rigorous national assessment released last week. The National Center of Educational Statistics, the research arm of the Department of Education, found that two out of three children did not meet standards for reading proficiency.
Robert BowenPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp
Save Arizonians from the Department of Corrections
Despite the fact that Arizona is one of the youngest states to join the United States of America, you might expect it to be a pretty progressive forward thinking place. Seeing how Arizona established itself later than majority of other states, it would only make sense that we would have taken the time to learn from the mistakes of older states, but that couldn’t be any further from the truth. Arizona may look fancy and have beautiful new homes, new construction happening often, beautiful nice communities, new shopping centers, new freeways and roads etc. In reality it’s only aesthetic.
Taryn ThomasPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp
Examining the Modern Distrust of Science in the US
Throughout history, science has always pushed the boundary of public belief. Thankfully we have moved past the days where scientists were killed for fear of them being users of dark magic. Through general acceptance and applications of science we were able to prove its usefulness and have made great strides in our knowledge of the world around us. However, we may be moving back to the time where science is misunderstood as something bad.
Logan SewallPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp
LGBT School Lessons
The very idea that your kids might magically become queer by learning about the fact that LGBT+ people exist is madness. If that were true there'd be no gays, because we never taught anyone about it.
Cronan ParryPublished 3 years ago in The Swamp
A Little Too Close to Home
As I was walking into the building of the high school I teach at, I got a text from my mother. "Your brother is okay. His school is on lockdown due to a shooting at STEM." I nearly couldn't believe what I was reading. The anxiety of how close it was to everything I knew, the grief for STEM. I worked at a swim school not even three blocks away, a two minute walk, on the same street for nearly two years. Students from STEM would come by to swim at our school, both after school, and during for PE. The STEM parking lot is where my dad taught me how to drive, and where my dad and I taught my brother to drive. My old high school, where my brother currently attends, was on a lock out due to the situation, because we didn't know what was going to happen next. My old high school, in fact, was a seven minute drive. And a five minute drive from the home my brother and I grew up in.
