Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on September 19, 2022All Schools In Louisiana MatterEarlier this week, I read an article about the alarming decline in student achievement in public schools [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on September 15, 2022Pelican Institute Releases School Board Candidate QuestionsThere is much work to be done to ensure that Louisiana’s kids are prepared for success and that our [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on September 8, 2022How are federal COVID recovery dollars being used to reverse student learning loss?A few weeks ago, we wrote about Louisiana public school students’ performance on the 2022 Louisiana [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on September 1, 2022Are Louisiana Schools Preparing Kids for College and Careers?Louisiana’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) has been considering changes to the K-12 [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on August 26, 2022School Accountability Improvements Deferred, but Parents Want ChangeEarlier this week, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) voted to approve just one [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on August 17, 2022Louisiana’s 2022 LEAP Scores: Some Improvement, But A Long Way to GoThe Louisiana Department of Education recently released public school students’ Louisiana Assessment of [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on August 3, 2022Basic Literacy & Numeracy Should be the Least We Expect From Our Public SchoolsLast week at a meeting where local school superintendents were reviewing proposed new state K-12 [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on July 28, 2022Making Sense of School Rankings and Ratings: Parents Just Want it StraightWalletHub just released another report in which it ranked Louisiana 49th in education. Around the same [...]Read more
Posted by Daniel J. Erspamer on July 27, 2022Report Shows Louisiana Ranked Among Worst for Public SchoolsA new Wallethub study reviewed the quality and safety of American public school systems and showed that [...]Read more