Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Stop Wasting Your Time on School Improvement
Stop Wasting Your Time on School Improvement Plans That Don’t Work. Try This Instead Too often, the required actions leaders must accomplish from year to year become acts of compliance rather than opportunities to learn. When this happens, leaders often feel more reactive than proactive and feel as though they can never engage in the…
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How Attacks on Critical Race Theory Are Affecting Teachers
How Attacks on Critical Race Theory Are Affecting Teachers Marissa Dillon teaches AP English Language and Composition in West Virginia. She has been an educator for eight years, including six years at the high school level and two as an adjunct at Marshall University: CRT – Three little letters that create responses from anger to…
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Educators Will Teach ‘Truth About Oppression’
Educators Will Teach ‘Truth About Oppression’ Despite CRT Attacks Margaret Thornton is a visiting assistant professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia. Her research interests include equity-focused school leadership development, school leadership for detracking, and critical race theory: This coming academic year, I will be working at a state institution, and I, like many educators,…
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Why Are Schools a Target for Cyberattacks?
Why Are Schools a Target for Cyberattacks? Last month, the Los Angeles school district was targeted in a massive ransomware attack (see Education Week’s story here). Just weeks ago, Michigan’s South Redford school district was targeted by a cyberattack that closed its schools for two days. Educators and policymakers are justifiably rattled by such attacks…
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Fewer Districts Are Providing Home Internet Access,
Fewer Districts Are Providing Home Internet Access, But Students Still Need It The number of schools that say they are providing students with home internet access has dropped dramatically in the past year, according to newly released survey data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Forty-five percent of public schools say they are still…
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Reinventing the School Librarian’s Role
Reinventing the School Librarian’s Role: How a NYC Library Director Adapted to Change Nowhere was that disruption more widespread than in the country’s largest school district, New York City, with its 1.1 million students. For Melissa Jacobs, the director of school library services in New York City, it was a golden opportunity to rethink how…
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A DIY Approach to Boost STEM
A DIY Approach to Boost STEM Engagement in Rural Schools From Walmart parking lots and youth centers to local schools, the GOBSmobile—named after the district’s goblin mascot and short for “Greater Opportunities for Better Success”—provided book loans; science experiments and demonstrations; storytime for younger students; and reading materials and supports for secondary students’ Advanced Placement…
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High Court Justice Rejects Student’s
High Court Justice Rejects Student’s Bid to Block Removal Over Sexual Harassment Claim U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has denied relief to a California high school student seeking to return to school after his district suspended him indefinitely under an “emergency removal” provision in Title IX regulations on sexual harassment. The San Ramon Valley…
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Can They Do That? Questions Swirl Around
Can They Do That? Questions Swirl Around COVID-19 School Vaccine Mandates Vaccines—and the legality of mandating them—are once again at the center of the debate over public health measures. Opponents already have vowed legal challenges to the Los Angeles Unified School District’s vote to require COVID-19 vaccines for all students 12 and older who attend…
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Texas Attorney General Sues More School
Texas Attorney General Sues More School Districts That Require Masks The Texas attorney general’s office filed even more lawsuits Tuesday against districts that require students to wear masks to school. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced it filed suit against nine more school districts, including the Waco and Paris independent school districts. In August, Paris…
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