TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. About a decade ago, transgender educator Aidan Key started to get what felt like an influx of inquiries from parents and educators desperate for help. On the surface, it felt like a new phenomenon, with more children than ever before
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National student assessment has educators and legislators worried
Every four years, the U.S. gets a look at how students around the country are doing in civics and history education. The latest snapshot has educators and legislators worried. Source link
As teacher shortages loom, one district grows future educators in high school
Christopher Olivarez, 15, helps students build model bottle rockets in Patrice Bravo’s STEM lab at Nora Forester Elementary School in San Antonio, Texas. Kaylee Greenlee Beal for NPR hide caption toggle caption Kaylee Greenlee Beal for NPR Christopher Olivarez, 15, helps students build model bottle rockets in Patrice Bravo’s STEM
In 'The Teachers,' passion motivates, even as conditions grow worse for educators
Alexandra Robbins’ The Teachers: A Year Inside America’s Most Vulnerable, Important Profession opens with this line: “You may think you know what’s inside, but you don’t.” And Robbins delivers on this promise. I taught four different high school classes for two years in Austin before the COVID-19 pandemic, which showed
The tax deduction limit for educators will increase for the first time in 20 years
Angela Pike watches her fourth grade students at Lakewood Elementary School in Cecilia, Ky., as they use their laptops to participate in an emotional check-in at the start of the school day, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Timothy D. Easley/AP hide caption toggle caption Timothy D. Easley/AP Angela Pike watches her