Tag: education

Charter Schools Saw Enrollment Growth as 1.4 Million Students Left Public Schools: Report

Charter schools across the United States took in hundreds of thousands of new students, as families sought alternatives to public schools during the first full school year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report reveals. Publicly funded, privately managed charters schools in 39 states saw an additional 240,000 students during the 2020-2021 school year, according…


EpochTV Review: Socialization and Education

Commentary In this episode of School’s Out, the episode Socialization tackles the definition of socialization and how it relates to education. The host Sam Sorbo explores this topic and gives parents important information about this topic and the expectations and goals we have for students in regard to socialization. The Oxford Dictionary lists the definition…


Penn State University Suspends Students Who Failed to Get Weekly COVID-19 Test

At Penn State University, 117 students have been placed on interim suspension for failure to comply with the university’s weekly COVID-19 testing requirement. Students at University Park who are subject to required weekly COVID-19 testing and who have missed at least three weeks of testing have been notified by Penn State that they are out…


COVID-19 Exacerbates Teacher Shortages Across Public Schools, Forcing Some to Return to Remote Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated teacher shortages across public schools in the United States, forcing some to go back to remote learning. Teacher shortages and difficulties filling job openings have been reported in Tennessee, New Jersey, and South Dakota, which saw one district begin the school year with 120 teacher vacancies. Meanwhile in Texas, Houston, Waco, and…


North Carolina Teachers Say School’s Testing Protocols Discriminate Against Unvaccinated

Two teachers in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School (CMS) district in North Carolina allege that the district’s new COVID-19 testing policy discriminates against the unvaccinated, and that the policy was decided on “behind closed doors.” In a memo sent out to all teachers and staff within the school system on Sept. 20, CMS stated that mandatory testing…


Angelo Codevilla: Resetting the Educational Reset

Commentary America lost a great patriot and one of its foremost public intellectuals yesterday with the untimely death of Angelo Codevilla at the age of 78.  Professor Codevilla, whose career spanned the Navy, the foreign service, the intelligence community, academe, think tanks, the blogosphere, and the literary world, was one of the sharpest and shrewdest…


Students Meet and Pray at ‘See You at the Pole’ Rallies Across America

Students, parents, and community members across the United States on Wednesday resume the “See You At The Pole” tradition, uniting in prayer around the flag poles at their schools. The event, according to the See You at the Pole (SYATP) organization, is held on the fourth Wednesday of September each year. This year marks the…


Despite Bans on CRT, Educators Are Teaching Other Educators How to ‘Back-Door It’ Into the Classroom

Despite the passage of laws in some states banning Critical Race Theory (CRT) from being taught in schools, some educators are teaching other educators how to “back-door it” into the classrooms. A teacher in Iowa posted a video teaching other educators how to circumvent the ban on teaching Critical Race Theory in her state. In…


Mississippi Public Universities Banned From Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines

Mississippi’s higher education governing board has voted to prohibit public universities in the state from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine for students, faculty, and staff. At a Sept. 17 meeting, the Mississippi Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning voted 8–1 to prohibit the vaccine as a condition of enrollment or employment, except at…


Florida University Sponsors Webinar Teaching Educators How to Disguise and Push CRT

Despite the ban on teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in Florida’s schools, a webinar was sponsored by Florida Atlantic University on Sept. 20 teaching educators in several Florida counties how to disguise and push CRT into any classroom, regardless of subject matter. The link to the webinar—sent in an email instructing educators not to share…