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Many of the most valuable jobs of tomorrow depend on STEM education happening in today’s classrooms. The U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects that by 2020, there will be 1.4 million IT jobs available but only 400,000 computer science graduates with the required skills to fill the positions. Companies...

Updated December 20, 2017 LFA organizations sharply criticized the tax reform measure that cleared the Senate and House this week because it jeopardizes federal K-12 funding and allows deductions for private schooling and other expenses. National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García said, “Hypocrisy is at the heart of the...

Public schools are where most children learn. They are major employers, they are reference points (“turn left at the middle school”), and they are gathering places. They are a community asset, whose continued success is entrusted to the citizens themselves and led by their representatives on school boards. We value...

Note: AASA, the School Superintendents Association, led a delegation to visit Scotland's public and private schools last month to learn about the country's education system and find good practices that could be replicated in the United States. The blogs below are a summary of one superintendent's experience. Learn more at...

Note: AASA, the School Superintendents Association, led a delegation to visit Scotland's public and private schools last month to learn about the country's education system and find good practices that could be replicated in the United States. The blogs below are a summary of one superintendent's experience. Traveling to Scotland...

“I am all for school diversity, but not when my kid has to take the bus across town.” This comment was made during the ongoing middle school boundary debate in my community. It reminded me of findings on school diversity from this year’s PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward...

CoSN recently led a delegation of senior-level school technology specialists and educators to explore schools, examine policies, and meet with government officials in New Zealand. The South Pacific country was recently identified by The Economist’s Worldwide Educating for the Future Index as a “Best in Class Overall” nation for providing...

Richard Long will appear on Education Talk Radio on Nov. 1 at 9 a.m. EDT to discuss disaster relief and efforts by LFA member associations. Listen to the podcast at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/edutalk/2017/11/01/the-education-community… . We have all been hearing about disasters striking parts of the US, disasters that seem to be growing...

Opioid addiction is frightening on many fronts: That a person can become addicted almost immediately, the relative ease of access to prescription painkillers and nonprescription synthetics, the fact that this epidemic of addiction knows no boundaries in age or demographics. Simply put, nearly anyone can become addicted—and their lives can...

Horace Mann, educator, politician, and the first great American advocate of public education, stated, “Education ... beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” My experience affirms Mann’s declaration: I believe in public education; I am a...