Erica Meltzer

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Erica Meltzer

This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. The federal departments of Education and Justice are investigating whether changes to the admissions policy at a prestigious Virginia high school violated the civil rights of Asian American students, even though the U.S. Supreme Court already let the updated admissions policy stand.

1 month ago | chalkbeat.org | Erica Meltzer

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.The federal departments of Education and Justice are investigating whether changes to the admissions policy at a prestigious Virginia high school violated the civil rights of Asian American students, even though the U.S. Supreme Court already let the updated admissions policy stand.

1 month ago | idahoednews.org | Erica Meltzer

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newslettersSign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.Religious charter schools will continue to be illegal after the U.S. Supreme Court tied 4-4 in a case that many observers considered one of the most consequential education cases in decades.

1 month ago | chalkbeat.org | Erica Meltzer

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.Religious charter schools will continue to be illegal after the U.S. Supreme Court tied 4-4 in a case that many observers considered one of the most consequential education cases in decades. The deadlock means an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that blocked the opening of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School stands. Many charter school advocates cheered the outcome.

1 month ago | thecurrentga.org | Erica Meltzer |Susan Catron

Girls had closed long-standing gender gaps in math test scores and were doing about as well as boys on standardized tests in the years leading up to the pandemic. But the gender gap in math has come roaring back. And according to a new analysis from the testing and research organization NWEA, girls seem to have fallen further behind since students returned to in-person school. NWEA also found that fewer girls were enrolling in algebra in eighth grade than before the pandemic.