David Steiner

Nov 16, 2024 | virtualschooling.wordpress.com | Evan Stone |Eric Hirsch |David Steiner

November 16, 2024 Filed under: virtual school — Michael K. Barbour @ 7:37 pm Tags: blended learning, cyber school, education, high school, Highlander Institute, Throughline learning, virtual school An item from a K-12 blended learning organization. What We’re Reading this Week: HQIM EditionWe’ve been a professional learning organization for nearly 20 years.

Sep 25, 2024 | pressfreedomtracker.us | David Steiner |Ina Steiner

The journalists behind an online e-commerce news site were ordered by a federal court on Sept. 25, 2024, to turn over the identities of sources who stopped working with them as a result of a 2019 campaign of harassment and intimidation at the hands of then-eBay employees. An attorney representing the journalists argues there’s nothing to turn over.

Apr 3, 2024 | aei.org | Nat Malkus |David Steiner

On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with David Steiner about coherence and fragmentation; why curricula, teacher training programs, and assessments should be aligned (and why they usually aren’t); SEL; where Common Core fell short; E.D. Hirsch and the importance of teaching content; why economics, music, and philosophy should be taken more seriously in secondary education than they usually are; AP exams and CTE; teachers unions, master’s pay premiums, and schools of...

Mar 5, 2024 | educationnext.org | John McWhorter |David Quinn |Todd E. Elder |David Steiner

Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equityby Laura MecklerMacmillan, 2023, $31.99; 400 pages. As reviewed by David SteinerLaura Meckler has written a deeply engaging account of Shaker Heights, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb and planned community founded in 1909, whose current population totals some 29,000—roughly one-third Black and half white.

Jan 23, 2024 | nasbe.org | David Steiner |Sy Doan |Jocelyn Pickford

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two CitiesIn the richly heterogeneous United States, teachers largely decide what students learn. Even in states where state boards adopt a long list of instructional materials, districts can get waivers to substitute their own choices.[1] And even when districts do pick materials, teachers do not necessarily teach them in toto.