Matt Zalaznick

2 days ago | universitybusiness.com | Matt Zalaznick

The Trump administration’s appointees for key Education Department roles reveal the agency’s higher ed priorities even as the president works to close it down. The incoming officials’ backgrounds indicate career preparedness, Title IX investigations and antisemitism will dominate policy conversations. Nicholas Kent, under secretary of educationKent was Virginia’s deputy secretary of education and chief policy officer at Career Education Colleges and Universities, a national trade association.

2 days ago | districtadministration.com | Matt Zalaznick

FederalBy: Matt ZalaznickDate:April 22, 2025 Share post: FacebookLinkedinTwitterPinterestWhatsApp The Trump administration’s appointees for key Education Department roles reveal the agency’s K12 priorities even as the president works to close it down. The incoming officials’ backgrounds indicate career preparedness, competency-based education and school choice will dominate policy conversations.

3 days ago | districtadministration.com | Matt Zalaznick

LeadershipPeople to WatchBy: Matt ZalaznickDate:April 21, 2025 Share post: FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Superintendent Gillian Chapman, who has led Wyoming’s Teton County School District #1 since 2015, is moving to Blue Valley Schools in Kansas to become that district’s next leader. She previously served as an administrator in the Shawnee Mission School District, where she spent 21 years of her career. Superintendent Damon J.

6 days ago | universitybusiness.com | Matt Zalaznick

Students share some of the same concerns as educators do about the growth of AI on campus. Students are, in fact, more worried than faculty or administrators that the technology is “short-cutting their learning” and they want more guidance, according to a new study and survey from plagiarism checker Turnitin.

6 days ago | districtadministration.com | Matt Zalaznick

DALILeadershipPeople to WatchBy: Matt ZalaznickDate:April 18, 2025 Share post: FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Superintendent Paula Knight was way ahead of the curve on a big issue: Cell phones in schools. The Jennings School District was the first in the St. Louis area to require students to lock their phones in Yondr pouches throughout the school day. “That has definitely made an impact on daily instruction,” Knight tells District Administration.