Eric Gorski

Aug 14, 2024 | timesfreepress.com | Eric Gorski

A conservative Christian college involved in classroom culture wars is suggesting that the U.S. Constitution is absent from Tennessee schools, drawing a public rebuke from a member of a Republican-appointed committee that developed the state's social studies standards. A recent mailer from Hillsdale College in Michigan warns that K-12 education is at a crisis point.

Aug 13, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Reema Amin |Amy Zimmer |Eric Gorski |Catherine Carrera

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Chicago Public Schools estimates that a chunk of the Chicago Teachers Union’s proposals, including raises for educators, would create a $4 billion deficit for the district by the 2029-2030 school year, officials said Tuesday.

Aug 13, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Amy Zimmer |Eric Gorski |Catherine Carrera |Becky Vevea

How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs. Bijoun Eric Jordan took a gap year abroad after finishing college in 2003, teaching English as a second language in Madrid and Barcelona. It’s an experience he continues to hold onto, and it has shaped his approach at Frederick Douglass Academy VII High School, in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where’s taught English the past 17 years.

Aug 13, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Eric Gorski |Catherine Carrera |Becky Vevea |Dale Mezzacappa

Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. A conservative Christian college involved in classroom culture wars is suggesting that the U.S. Constitution is absent from Tennessee schools, drawing a public rebuke from a member of a Republican-appointed committee that developed the state’s social studies standards. A recent mailer from Hillsdale College in Michigan warns that K-12 education is at a crisis point.

May 23, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Eric Gorski |Lori Higgins |Amelia Pak-Harvey |Jessie Gomez

It wasn’t supposed to start like this. The 13- and 14-year-olds who make up the Class of 2024 did not expect to begin their high school careers clustered in Zoom rooms or passing temperature checks and shuffling past masked classmates at a safe distance. The pandemic has rewritten the script of a traditional rite of passage — the beginning of the end of a long K-12 journey for students growing into young adulthood.