Louisiana earned its highest rankings on The Nation's Report Card. Eighth grade reading improved 10 spots to 29th in the country. Louisiana’s academic progress reflects a focus on fundamental skills and strong educator support. #laed #lalege #lagov ow.ly/atZv50URKus

Sort of unbelievable that a school can let their kindergarten teachers decide how “academic” they want to be based on some personal philosophy or preference and then reshuffle the students in the next grade, forcing G1 teachers and every teacher thereafter to pick up the pieces.

My job as a high-school English teacher can be made much harder by the teachers my students had before me. So please, I'm begging middle and elementary school English teachers: ditch the fluff and return to substance. Stop with the fragmentary reading of "accessible" (i.e.,

I have a feeling we’re about to enter a news cycle of, “District improves scores through discipline and direct instruction and someone doesn’t like it.”

Every time we ask schools to solve another societal problem, we pull them further from their core mission: education. The result? Kids can’t read or do math. Schools can’t fix poverty, cure mental illness, or parent your kids. But the knowledge of how to teach math, reading,

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I joined ⁦FOX & Friends⁩ to discuss Louisiana’s progress in education. Kids deserve a quality education. We are pleased with progress; however, we have more work to do. foxnews.com/video/63687039…

If a school’s discipline numbers are improving but behavior is getting worse, that’s not reform, it’s fraud.

As a retired teacher who now provides interventions for dyslexic students, I can honestly say I’ve never been more proud of my state. We’ve got great leadership & a vision for making more improvement. I don’t know what the rest of America is doing, but Louisiana has it going on!

“Every student has the right to an education.” Okay. But also… No student has the right to make a school unsafe. If they bring violence, threats, or weapons, they don’t need a “restorative plan.” They need to be shown the exit. Put them in online school. Find an alt ed

The trouble with having Mississippi as THE standard-bearer for state reading reform is that some people don’t buy it, just because it’s Mississippi. I sat in a restaurant in Brooklyn last night, telling a table full of new acquaintances – two of whom listened to Emily Hanford’s

"The average low-income California fourth grader is a full year behind their counterpart in Mississippi." I’m glad to see Claude Goldenberg saying it plainly. Megan Potente berrinchuda montoya Decoding Dyslexia CA Megan Bacigalupi

Elizabeth Warren is a habitual liar. Since its establishment on May 4, 1980, the Department of Education has consistently undermined every student's opportunity for a quality education, a claim substantiated by extensive government data. The argument for abolishing the Department of

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Louisiana Pre K-12 education rises in national rankings, according to ‘U.S. News & World Report’ myarklamiss.com/louisiana-news…

Global Teacher Shortage Alert: The UN reports that countries need 44 million more primary and secondary teachers by 2030 to meet demand, amid rising attrition and fewer new entrants into the profession. Would raising salaries alone be enough to solve teacher shortages?

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