In The News: Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education
A recent federal report shows boys, black students, and students with disabilities get kicked out of school at higher rates than their peers.
Breanna Stewart, the WNBA’s reigning most valuable player, will miss the entire 2019 season due to a ruptured right Achilles tendon. Her injury is exposing the league’s own Achilles heel: pathetically low salaries that force stars like Stewart to play overseas for the money.
When schoolteachers in Los Angeles went on a weeklong strike in January, the head of the local teachers union described it as a “battle for the soul of public education.” When Denver public school teachers went on a three-day strike in February, they did it in the name of “schools Denver students deserve.”
Denver’s teachers union is wielding one powerful weapon in its strike against Denver Public Schools: growing membership.
Los Angeles Unified School District teachers made national headlines this week when they brought operations in the nation’s second-largest district to a screeching halt. The first work stoppage in the district in 30 years capped a nearly two-year-long negotiations process that saw very little movement on the more than 20 issues brought to the bargaining table.
As nearly 30,000 teachers stand ready to take to the picket lines in the Los Angeles Unified School district on Monday, districts from the Inland Empire to Orange County will be watching.
Los Angeles teachers began a strike on Monday to demand that their school district increase pay and take steps that they say will improve students’ quality of education. This is the first Los Angeles teachers strike since 1989 and follows a year packed full of teacher work stoppages.
A series of massive teacher walkouts rocked six states in 2018, drawing national attention to teacher pay and working conditions. While not all of the teachers had the same concerns — West Virginia teachers mostly wanted a pay raise, while those in Kentucky wanted to reverse a change to their pensions — the Red for Ed movement captured the public imagination and created a sense of solidarity among public school teachers.
Undocumented students took advantage of tuition benefits they called for through the 2013 California DREAM Act
The promise of financial aid through the tuition waiver made high-achieving undocumented students more likely to enroll college.
Dr. Marissa Nichols, Director of Leadership and Career Development at Boston University Athletics joins Dr. Nancy Lough from UNLV on Life in the Front Office, where they provide insights and unique advice to student-athletes and anyone wanting to work in college athletics as well as women wanting to work in sports.
After years of bottom-of-the-barrel education rankings, Nevada lawmakers adopted a number of reforms in 2015, including increased funding for low-income students and English language learners, universal education savings accounts, and the creation of a statewide district to take over failing schools.
