Education Empowerment

No, choice programs are not the boogeyman, but for the students who don’t fit into a typical education, it could be a knight in shining armor coming to save them. Happy Halloween. 

Teachers, you can start your own microschool or education business. If you build it, the students will come.

School resource officers seem to be a quick fix to the complex issue of school safety. But study after study shows that they have an overall negative impact on student discipline.

Teenagers want to study something meaningful. But what is meaningful to one is boring to another. We can change the way school looks for teenagers, but we need to trust parents and to trust students in deciding what, where, when, and how fast to learn.

Javonne Tanner, a teacher, started her own school. So did Renae Zentz, Heather Poll, and many other teachers across the state. And you can too!

Children, especially young children, learn through play. But focusing on standardized assessments limits play in schools.