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Yes, Colleges Can Rescind Admission Offers. Here's What Educators Need to Know

In a recent high-profile case, Harvard College rescinded its offer to a school-shooting survivor after racist comments he’d written online surfaced. But how common is it for colleges to take back offers? And do students have any recourse?




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Charter Schools on Corporate Campuses

When public schools accept an offer to move into a new building on corporate land, they open the door to interference on curriculum and faculty hiring.




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Are Charter Schools Facing a Reckoning? Not So Fast

By the single most important metric, charter schools are succeeding, argues Bruno V. Manno.




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Tests Match Charter, Traditional Schools

There are "no measurable differences" between the performance of charter schools and traditional public schools on national reading and math assessments from 2017, a finding that persists when parents' educational attainment was factored into the results.




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Deep Dive: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren on Charter Schools

Dig into what two leading Democratic presidential candidates have to say in their platforms about charter schools with Education Week's detailed analysis.




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NLRB Rejects Northwestern Football Players' Attempt to Unionize

The National Labor Relations Board unanimously declined jurisdiction Monday in the case involving Northwestern University football players attempting to unionize.




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Appeals Court Puts Kibosh on Deferred-Compensation Plan for NCAA Athletes

A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a proposed plan that would have paid certain student-athletes as much as $5,000 annually in deferred compensation.




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Judge Dismisses Concussion Lawsuit Against Illinois High School Association

An Illinois judge has dismissed the nation's first class-action lawsuit against a state high school association over its handling of concussions, ruling that it had made strides in that regard since the filing of the lawsuit.




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H.S. Sports Programs in Va., Okla. Facing Allegations of Sexual Assaults

A high school basketball program in Virginia has been suspended indefinitely amid allegations of a sexual assault involving a 16-year-old boy, while junior varsity wrestlers in Oklahoma face similar allegations.




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Parents Sue N.Y. School Districts, Medical Responders Over Football Player's Death

The parents of a 16-year-old who died last fall from football-related brain trauma are suing the New York school districts he played for and the medical responders who tended to him the night he sustained his fatal injury.




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Nebraska Expands Anti-Hazing Law to Cover Primary and Secondary Schools

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a bill into law Wednesday that expands the state's anti-hazing regulations to elementary, middle, and high schools rather than just post-secondary institutions.




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Team Sues Little League Over Stripped Championship

A Chicago-based former Little League team has filed a lawsuit against Little League International over the organization's decision to strip the team's United States championship earlier this year.




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Parents Sue Little League for Allegedly Ignoring Eligibility Concerns

In the lawsuit, the Chicago-based team's parents allege Little League was aware of potential residency issues, "but chose to ignore and/or deliberately conceal these facts in order to garner higher ratings, publicity, and money."




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Data: The Schools Named After Confederate Figures

Since June 2020 Education Week has tracked if & when the over 200 schools named after men with ties to the Confederacy changed their names.




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Controversial Economics Class Dropped From Tucson High Schools

School board members in Tucson, Ariz., acted after learning that a controversial economics textbook that hadn't been properly vetted.




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Is the Nation's Rising Graduation Rate Real?

More high school students than ever are graduating, and a new report suggests that’s not due to lowered standards—it’s because students are actually learning more.




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Support for Black Boys Boosts Graduation Rates

A new evaluation of an Oakland, Calif., school district program designed to wrap black male students in a culturally rich and supportive environment is paying off.




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Police Shootings Lower Black and Latino Students' Grades, Graduation Rates, Study Shows

A new study shows that police shootings affect the learning and emotional well-being of students in nearby schools, particularly nonwhite students.




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High school graduation rates again rise in Georgia




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Union Slams New Mexico Plan to Give Teachers Classroom-Supply Money

As an attempt to mitigate a persistent school supply problem, New Mexico plans to give some 23,000 teachers prepaid gift cards for use on classroom materials. One local union calls it a distraction from larger funding issues.




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Many drops make a pond

A Japanese man's heart changes during the few days an OM team and a group of volunteers help restore his home.




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Santa and 'Manga Mission'

"Are all my elves ready? OK, off we go!" A group of Santa and his elves head out into Karuizawa, Japan, to share God’s love.




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Connecting over waffles

Despite freezing temperatures and snow, ministry with Café Hope has been both challenging and exciting for Michelle from Singapore.




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Are Schools' Discipline Policies Linked to Shootings? We Just Don't Know

No studies sufficiently answer the question, finds the GAO, which means debates over whether newer restorative-justice approaches help or harm safety are likely to continue.




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News24 Business | Hannes Viljoen | Money is personal - just don't let that cost you

It's unrealistic to expect anyone to invest totally dispassionately. But there are ways to transform risk, writes Hannes Viljoen.




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News24 Business | Nick Hedley | How to fix SA's broken education system

In South Africa, an astounding 81% of Grade 4 pupils can't read for meaning. It's time we looked at approaches in other markets that have clearly delivered results, says Nick Hedley.




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News24 Business | INSIDE LABOUR | Remember the heroes who fought for justice on the rugby field

The combined efforts of trade unions, activists and other heroes over decades paved the way for the glory of the latest Bok win, writes Terry Bell.




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News24 Business | Sikonathi Mantshantsha | The ANC - and the ANC only - is responsible for the electricity crisis

The ANC is fully and entirely responsible for the crisis of electricity in South Africa for the past 17 years, and electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa knows it, says Sikonathi Mantshantsha.




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News24 Business | Khaya Sithole | Here's why white-collar crime continues to pay in SA

Concerningly for South Africa, the question of whether our laws and regulations provide sanctions and penalties that are commensurate to the harm caused by white-collar criminals remains a matter of contested viewpoints, writes Khaya Sithole.




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News24 Business | Sikonathi Mantshantsha | KPMG/VBS saga shows SA's fortunes are better in hands of SARB than NPA

Our freedom, and fortunes as a nation, lie with the likes of the independent and professional men and women as those at the head of the SA Reserve Bank, and very much unlike those at the NPA.




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News24 Business | Carol Paton | Budget 2024: Enoch cuts while Cyril fiddles

Another budget and a bigger debt mountain to climb than ever before. Can Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana change the trajectory? writes Carol Paton.




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News24 Business | GCIS defends R7 million spend on 'social reality' TV show amid opposition criticism

Despite criticism of electioneering, the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) has defended its R7 million social-reality television show.




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News24 Business | Khaya Sithole | SAA deal: a lesson in failure to launch

SAA now remains firmly in state hands - a state that it insists it can no longer provide the type of capital support it desperately needs. Who should feel vindicated? asks Khaya Sithole.




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News24 Business | BOOK REVIEW | Why many time management tricks don't work (and one that does)

Most time management strategies are dropped as quickly as they are picked up for one key reason: insight is so much more important than theory, says Ian Mann. And this author's insight is invaluable.




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News24 Business | Khaya Sithole | We need to talk about consultants who prop up municipalities

In the latest Auditor-General report, what stands out is persistent underperformance and the level of desperation in local governments. Reliance on consultants who don't solve the underlying problem is no longer sustainable, says Khaya Sithole.




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The agony of Angola

In a country wasted by conflict, OM brings healing to Angola’s people by strengthening local churches, training leaders and caring for children at risk.




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Someone to whom special grace was shown

Like many in Angola, Tchipangu did not have the financial means for an education. But this changed when a company decided to invest in her.




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Training up a nation

OM Angola helps a war-ravaged society heal itself.




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A new generation of leaders

OM Angola sets out to change the future of the country’s youth.




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Ministry made of relationships

For OMers working in Angola, the key to successful ministry has been time investing in relationships.




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Stop Ignoring the Innovation That Happens in Traditional Public Schools

Three national educational funders explain a new program that is highlighting innovative practices in schools around the country.




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DeVos Highlights Schools' Innovation During COVID-19 Closures

Innovations that schools developed during their rapid transition to online instruction could inspire them to "rethink education," U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said at a web conference with reporters.




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Innovation in Higher Ed. Has Never Been More Important

Guest blogger Aimée Eubanks Davis says, "We need to address the resource and social-capital network disparities that often exist between elite private and flagship public institutions and their large public counterparts.




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Where's the Innovation in Education?

Julie Gunlock closes out her week of guest blogging by lamenting how, despite the creative ideas out there, her school district, for example, doesn't seem to be deploying any of the innovative solutions we hear so much about.




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Here's What Works Best in Teacher Professional Development

In response to one school district's commitment to professional development, research explores teacher PD best practices and reviews the district's offerings.




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What Other Countries Can Teach the U.S. About Teacher Professional Development

Countries that score highest on an international measure of student achievement tend to have these three things in common when it comes to professional development for teachers.




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Professional Learning Is More Meaningful When Done as a Team

High-quality professional learning is difficult to provide in education, principal Jasmine Kullar writes. Here's a solution.




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A Gap in Teacher Training: Working With Students Who Have Concussions

A growing number of students have experienced a brain injury that could affect their ability to learn in school. Yet most teachers aren't prepared to work with these students.




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'It's Not Just Yoga and Nail Paint': Inside the Teacher Self-Care Conference

The two-day event, now in its third year, offers workshops on mental health and burnout, time-management and goal-setting, and strategies for navigating toxic workplace environments.