The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), acknowledged as the “gold standard” of assessments by the Kansas Department of Education, shows Kansas students once again […]
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Think you want to run for your local school board? Read this book first…
One out of three Kansas students are below grade level in reading and math. Only 18% of high school graduates in The Sunflower State who […]
Five races this November could swing Kansas State Board of Education to the right
WICHITA, Kansas — The race for five seats on the Kansas State Board of Education could dramatically shift the board’s political makeup, which could reshape academic standards or […]
Parents high-tailing it for School Choice opportunities
In the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (played wonderfully understated by Kevin Costner) hears a voice say, “If you build it, he […]
Kansas schools build non-teaching staff, payrolls while enrollment, student performance decline
The hiring of non-teachers (administrators and all other employees who are not teachers) has continued an upward trend in Kansas for the past decade in […]
Kansas teachers want more protection from student violence
WICHITA — Just a few days after this school year started, Dave Clark, then athletic director at Wichita West High School, was standing in a hallway […]
Kansas teachers have to get better at teaching reading
Sounding the alarm that 37% of fourth-grade students in the United States (40% in Kansas) cannot read at grade level, the National Council on Teacher […]
Kansas Early Learning Standards expand government framework, expectations for your kid
The Kansas Board of Eduction met January 9-10 in Topeka for its first meeting of 2024 and approved an expansion to the Kansas Early Learning […]
Lack of education leads to lack of sympathy
We all want to claim the high road when we discuss issues of race. Very few consider themselves to be a racist, and more than […]
Geary County teacher gives district a lesson in pronouns
The incompetent management of the Geary County USD 475 School District has created an educational backwater where pronouns taught in its own elementary school grammar […]