SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING NEWSLETTER To All Judgment and Decision Making Aficionados: The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is pleased to announce that the last 2023 newsletter is ready for download: http://sjdm.org/newsletters/ This issue contains announcements, conferences, and jobs!

SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING NEWSLETTER To All Judgment and Decision Making Aficionados: The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is pleased to announce that the latest newsletter is ready for download: http://sjdm.org/newsletters/ This issue contains announcements, conferences, and jobs!

SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING NEWSLETTER To All Judgment and Decision Making Aficionados: The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is pleased to announce that the latest newsletter is ready for download: http://sjdm.org/newsletters/ This issue contains announcements, conferences, and jobs. It also has the 2024 conference program in it, so you have that going […]

Montana's highest court has struck down a tuition tax-credit program which, as enacted by that state's legislature, allowed tuition scholarships to benefit students at private religious schools as well as secular schools.

President Donald Trumps list of priorities for his second term includes just two bullet points related to K-12 education.

Rhode Island may become the first state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards.

Three Oregon school employees sued their union in federal court last week, arguing it's unfair that the teachers' union only lets members drop out and stop paying dues during the month of September.

Not having to negotiate with federal officials on the finer points of teacher evaluation, rigorous standards, or school turnarounds has made it easier to chart their own paths, some education leaders say.

Wayne Sanstead, who has been North Dakota's state schools superintendent for nearly three decades, has decided not to run for an eighth term this fall.

An Ohio appellate court struck down a district's policy allowing staff members to carry concealed weapons in school with 24 hours of "active shooter/killer training."

Wyoming's new science benchmarks are similar to the Next Generation Science Standards.

Wyoming once again takes the top spot in Quality Counts' annual ranking of the states on school finance, while 22 states receive grades between C-minus and D-minus.

More schools are trying to shift to some in-person learning for students, but many teachers don’t believe it’s safe.

Two infectious disease experts weigh in on how a COVID-19 vaccine that’s 90 percent effective, as early results are showing, could change school health and safety protocols.

School boards play a critical role in steering the progress of the nation’s schools, but the relationship between school boards and school district leaders could be better.

Maryland's state school board will allow noneducators to be appointed as superintendents of school systems.

Maryland may be a model for how states should approach educating students for the workforce of the future, according to a new policy brief.

A strategy that gives more learning time in small groups of students without taking time away from core instruction.

The Virginia Beach City schools, urged on by parents, decided to make a big change, doubling the amount of recess the district offered, from just 15 minutes a day to 30.

School districts must make amends for their racist history, writes Daarel Burnette II. What should that look like?

A $12.2 million dollar grant from the state Department of Public Instruction will go to a program based at North Carolina State University to provide additional training literacy training to teachers in 16 high-needs districts across the state.

Our political system is out of balance, and teachers must prepare the next generation to do better, argues teacher-turned-legislator John Waldron.

Strict protocols and limited community spread helped a Maine high school stay open for in person instruction when its first coronavirus case turned up.

Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Monday that schools will be required to remain open despite the rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, arguing lockdowns and closures have not worked.

Teachers are using a variety of games, videos, and apps to supplement online math instruction—but not all of them are created equal.

Hopson became the interim superintendent in Shelby County, Tenn., in 2013 after the Memphis City School system merged with Shelby County schools. That merger then led six suburban communities to break away from the merged school system to form their own school districts.

As the number of charter schools continues to grow, voters in California will be forced to examine their largess.

Michael Kirst will be stepping down from his job as president of the California School Board when Gov. Jerry Brown's tenure is over, Kirst announced this week. Kirst, who is an emeritus professor education and business administration at Stanford University, was first appointed to the state board bac

Emotions remain raw as educators and residents in a rural Wisconsin district dig for solutions after being denied the option of dissolving.

More layoffs and damaging cuts loom as districts move deeper into the school year with their budgets depleting and Congress stalemated over emergency relief.

Federal watchdogs find that Utah inflated its high school graduation rate in the last of a series of reports warning states not to make end runs around the rules for calculating graduation rates.

School authorities in Utah have failed to report educator misconduct, possibly allowing teachers to offend again by moving to other schools, according to a new audit.

All of Hawaii's public schools were closed down last week in anticipation of a powerful hurricane.