Today in News History
On July 13, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 1205, Hubert Walter, English archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of The United Kingdom (born 1160) passed away. In 1527, John Dee, English-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer (died 1609) was born. In 1551, John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (born 1490) passed away. In 1889, Emma Asson, Estonian educator and politician (died 1965) was born. In 1959, Fuziah Salleh, Malaysian politician was born. In 1967, Mark McGowan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Western Australia was born. In 1970, Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (born 1896) passed away. In 1971, Mark Neeld, Australian footballer and coach was born. In 1980, Seretse Khama, Botswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (born 1921) passed away. In 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks, American student, known for attempting to assassinate former US President Donald Trump (born 2003) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.
School Principals I Have Known: Oliver Deex
Narrative Analysis: Plain Folks
Although I have never served as a principal, I have been a student under elementary and secondary school principals and worked for six high school principals as a social studies teacher. As a district superintendent in Arlington (VA), I supervised Continue reading
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Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
· Jul 5, 2026
Grading Students: A Teacher Challenges the System
When I served as a superintendent, I fired a teacher for giving an A to every student he taught. George D. was a high school social studies teacher in Arlington (VA) when I led the district (1974-1981). In the Fall Continue reading
Borneo Bulletin
· Jun 29, 2026
‘School leaders key to setting direction, inspiring innovation’
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· Jun 23, 2026
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Florida Politics
· Jun 30, 2026
Paul Burns named interim Education Commissioner to replace Anastasios Kamoutsas
'Dr. Burns has played a central role in implementing and advancing Florida’s education agenda.' The post Paul Burns named interim Education Commissioner to replace Anastasios Kamoutsas appeared first on Florida Politics - Campaigns Elections. Lobbying Government..
Jamaica Information Service
· Jun 26, 2026
Education Minister Celebrates with Students of Park Mountain Primary School
To celebrate the outstanding performance of Primary Exit Profile (PEP) students of Park Mountain Primary and Infant School in St. Elizabeth, Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr. []
MyJoyOnline
· Jun 23, 2026
APSU 2002 Legacy Project: Prof Kofi Abotsi urges alumni to give back as a sacred duty
The Dean of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) Law School, Prof Ernest Kofi Abotsi, has urged alumni associations to move beyond discretionary philanthropy and embrace giving back to their schools as a lifelong duty. Speaking during the launch of the legacy project of the 2002 year group of St. Augustine’s College Past Students Association (APSU) held at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra on Friday, June 19, 2026, Prof. Abotsi, challenged the audience to rethink their relationship with the school.
Irish Tech News
· Jun 26, 2026
The Leadership Habit No One Teaches: How Reflection Drives Better Decisions
By Steve Mostyn, who is the author of Why Great Leaders Ask Great Questions, and one of the world’s leading designers and directors of senior executive leadership programs. He is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and creates and leads the Oxford University Executive Leadership Program Leadership insights, ask great questions The best leaders []
OpsLens
· Jun 28, 2026
Getting paid while being gone … * WorldNetDaily * by Jeremy Portnoy, Real Clear Wire
Source link Topline: A Missouri school superintendent made out with perhaps the best rate of pay in the history of public schooling. Salary: 249,167. Hours worked: Zero. The Francis Howell
Middle East News 247
· Jun 23, 2026
GEMS Education appoints UK school transformation leader Nicholas Soar to lead GEMS Founders School – Dubai South
GEMS Education has announced the appointment of Nicholas Soar as the Principal and CEO of GEMS Founders School – Dubai South (GFD), effective August 2026. He succeeds Interim Principal John Stapley. Located at the heart of Dubai South, one of the UAE’s fastest-growing economic and residential hubs, GFD was established to serve a rapidly [] The post GEMS Education appoints UK school transformation leader Nicholas Soar to lead GEMS Founders School – Dubai South appeared first on Middle East News 247.
Lawyers, Guns & Money
· Jul 3, 2026
After all it was a great big world
When I was a fifteen-year-old cellist of negligible talents I was part of the orchestra at Kalamazoo Michigan’s Loy Norrix High School. (Side note: just before the 2020 election the NYT did a story on graduates of my high school from my sister’s time there — she is six and a half years younger than [] The post After all it was a great big world appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.
First Things Magazine
· Jul 7, 2026
By What Authority
In the fall of 1992, a Yale freshman named Jared Waxman wrote a letter to the editor of the Yale Herald. The Yale Freshmen Assembly had been held on... The post By What Authority appeared first on First Things.
Knewz
· Jun 29, 2026
Science teacher accused of moonlighting on OnlyFans faces 27 charges over abuse of seven students
A Douglasville high school teacher, who was moonlighting on OnlyFans, has been charged with more than two dozen s*x crimes for allegedly having sexual relationships with seven students. She made her first court appearance on Thursday, June 25, wearing beige jail overalls after a grand jury indicted her. Maris Nichols, 25, has been suspended and...
Vanguard News
· Jun 24, 2026
Teachers lament ordeal in hands of thugs in Delta school
The Vice Principal of Erhavwe Secondary School in Ekrerahavwe, Agbarho Kingdom, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Lucky Otuaga, the Maths teacher of the school, Mr. Charles Ovwigho and the Chairman Education Committee of Ekrerahavwe, who is also a staff of the school, yesterday, narrated their ordeal in the hands of thugs allegedly brought by a female student, Miss Deborah Kazeem, to attack the Maths teacher on May 14. The post Teachers lament ordeal in hands of thugs in Delta school appeared first on Vanguard News.
WGBF – 1280 AM – Evansville
· Jun 26, 2026
Evansville Day School Earns Recognition From Global Organization
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ASCD SmartBrief
· Jun 25, 2026
Best of Educational Leadership 2025-2026
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Schools Week
· Jun 23, 2026
Martyn Oliver quizzed on leader wellbeing and enrichment benchmarks
Ofsted's chief inspector questioned by education committee The post Martyn Oliver quizzed on leader wellbeing and enrichment benchmarks first appeared on Schools Week.
Korea Times News
· Jul 5, 2026
New superintendents put teacher protection at top of policy agenda
New superintendents put teacher protection at top of policy agenda
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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This profile is one of 51 state profiles accompanying Fordham’s report, A Crowded Table: Teacher Union Strength in 2026, which updates Fordham’s 2012 rankings of state teacher union strength. Drawing on the latest publicly available data and a new survey of K–12 stakeholders in all fifty states and the Georgia, researchers Melissa Arnold Lyon, Sandy Frost Waldron, and Rebecca Jacobsen find that the education policy landscape has become increasingly crowded and contested over the past fifteen Read More
Investing.com
· Jul 2, 2026
Form 144 Barnes & Noble Education For: 2 July
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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
· Jun 22, 2026
Amicus Brief: Stovall v. Jefferson County Board of Education
Amicus Brief: Stovall v. Jefferson County Board of Education
Diane Ravitch's blog
· Jun 30, 2026
Steve Nelson: Don’t Trust the Federal Voucher Program
Steve Nelson was headmaster of a prestigious private school in Manhattan, yet is a strong believer in public schools. Now retired, he holds to the principle that public money belongs to public schools, and only to public schools. If parents make a private choice for their own child, they are obliged to pay for it. []
DNyuz
· Jul 9, 2026
School choice for me, but not for thee
Corey DeAngelis is a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a senior fellow at Americans for Fair Treatment. Randi Weingarten and Becky Pringle, presidents of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, respectively, sent a letter last month to Democratic governors urging them not to opt into President Donald Trump’s new []
Fark
· Jul 6, 2026
School board meeting gets Pokey. Superintendent says he's Gumby, dammit [Strange]
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Jamaica Observer
· Jul 1, 2026
WATCH: St Elizabeth police escort top PEP student to graduation
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — There was jubilation in the southern-central town of Santa Cruz on Wednesday with police outriders, sirens blaring and a red carpet rolled out for Jasonnia Beadle, the top primary student in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams. Jasonnia is among 60 Park Mountain Primary school students graduating on Wednesday at the St Matthew’s Anglican Church in Santa Cruz.The police escort was organised by head of the St Elizabeth division Superintendent Coleridge Minto.Park Mountain Primary and Infant was placed in the national spotlight last week when Jasonnia was named the overall top primary student in the 2026 PEP attaining a score of 394.2.Jasonnia, the school’s head girl, and her schoolmate Najhay Nish, top boy at the institution, led the graduating class in marching inside the Anglican Church.— Kasey Williams
India Today
· Jul 11, 2026
Alcohol, vulgar songs: UP headmaster suspended over misconduct on school premises
Alcohol, vulgar songs: UP headmaster suspended over misconduct on school premises
Powerline
· Jun 21, 2026
At SPA, the Ottley treatment
I’m an alumnus, a parent of two alumnae, and a former teacher at St. Paul Academy in St. Paul. I’ve known just about every head of school going back to Ed Reid with the exception of Luis Ottley. Ottley is the current head of school. Ottley has now presided over a series of incidents that reflect his poor judgment, his thin skin, and his tyrannical inclinations. Ottley must rank as
Nepal News
· Jul 1, 2026
शिक्षा तथा खेलकुद मन्त्रालयको सल्लाहकारमा झा नियुक्त
काठमाडौँ। शिक्षा तथा खेलकुद मन्त्रालयको सल्लाहकारमा शैलेन्द्र झा नियुक्त भएका छन्। शिक्षा, प्रविधि, सार्वजनिक नीति तथा शैक्षिक नवप्रवर्तनका क्षेत्रमा अनुभवी झा शिक्षा प्रणाली सुधार, नीति निर्माण, युवा सशक्तीकरण र प्रविधिमैत्री शिक्षाको क्षेत्रमा सक्रिय छन्। उनको नियुक्तिलाई मन्त्रालयको नीतिगत तथा संस्थागत सुधारमा महत्त्वपूर्ण कदमका रूपमा हेरिएको छ। यसअघि झा काठमाडौँ महानगरपालिकाको सहरी योजना आयोगमा शिक्षा, प्रविधि []
The Economic Times
· Jun 22, 2026
The leadership advantage in an age of disruption
The leadership advantage in an age of disruption
Arutz Sheva
· Jun 26, 2026
The Institutional Playbook
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Townhall
· Jul 7, 2026
The Systemic Racism of California's Public Schools
The Systemic Racism of California's Public Schools
The Hechinger Report
· Jul 6, 2026
PRINCIPAL VOICE: Our off-track high school students weren’t terribly interested in school until we dug into hands-on learning
As a former teacher and now school leader, I know nothing is worse than missing the mark with your students. It is both disillusioning and frustrating to know that you are failing to provide them with the necessary tools to drive their own learning. It was this realization that convinced me that something needed to [] The post PRINCIPAL VOICE: Our off-track high school students weren’t terribly interested in school until we dug into hands-on learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
EdTech Magazine: K-12
· Jul 7, 2026
ISTE Live 26: Doing More With Less: Kirsten Baesler on Sustainable K–12 Technology
In the post-ESSER era, many schools and school districts are learning how to iterate their resource allocation to do more with less and build durable plans that center planning around the mission instead of the money. During her session “Driving Innovation When Budgets Are Tight” at ISTELive 26, Kirsten Baesler, assistant secretary in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for the U.S. Department of Education, discussed the importance of having a clear framework for what sustainability looks like alongside panelists Chris Lehmann, CEO and principal of the Science Leadership Academy
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Related coverage for "School Principals I Have Known: Oliver Deex": Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice — Grading Students: A Teacher Challenges the System. Borneo Bulletin — ‘School leaders key to setting direction, inspiring innovation’. Tech & Learning — How Schools Can Stay Safe . Florida Politics — Paul Burns named interim Education Commissioner to replace Anastasios Kamoutsas. Jamaica Information Service — Education Minister Celebrates with Students of Park Mountain Primary School. MyJoyOnline — APSU 2002 Legacy Project: Prof Kofi Abotsi urges alumni to give back as a sacred duty. Irish Tech News — The Leadership Habit No One Teaches: How Reflection Drives Better Decisions. OpsLens — Getting paid while being gone … * WorldNetDaily * by Jeremy Portnoy, Real Clear Wire. Middle East News 247 — GEMS Education appoints UK school transformation leader Nicholas Soar to lead GEMS Founders School – Dubai South. Lawyers, Guns & Money — After all it was a great big world. First Things Magazine — By What Authority. Knewz — Science teacher accused of moonlighting on OnlyFans faces 27 charges over abuse of seven students. Vanguard News — Teachers lament ordeal in hands of thugs in Delta school. WGBF – 1280 AM – Evansville — Evansville Day School Earns Recognition From Global Organization. ASCD SmartBrief — Best of Educational Leadership 2025-2026. Schools Week — Martyn Oliver quizzed on leader wellbeing and enrichment benchmarks. Korea Times News — New superintendents put teacher protection at top of policy agenda. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute — {"a":{"_":"Georgia’s Teacher Union Strength Profile ","href":"/georgias-teacher-union-strength-profile","hreflang":"en"}}. Investing.com — Form 144 Barnes & Noble Education For: 2 July. Manhattan Institute for Policy Research — Amicus Brief: Stovall v. Jefferson County Board of Education. Diane Ravitch's blog — Steve Nelson: Don’t Trust the Federal Voucher Program. DNyuz — School choice for me, but not for thee. Fark — School board meeting gets Pokey. Superintendent says he's Gumby, dammit [Strange]. Jamaica Observer — WATCH: St Elizabeth police escort top PEP student to graduation. India Today — Alcohol, vulgar songs: UP headmaster suspended over misconduct on school premises. Powerline — At SPA, the Ottley treatment. Nepal News — शिक्षा तथा खेलकुद मन्त्रालयको सल्लाहकारमा झा नियुक्त. The Economic Times — The leadership advantage in an age of disruption . Arutz Sheva — The Institutional Playbook. Townhall — The Systemic Racism of California's Public Schools. The Hechinger Report — PRINCIPAL VOICE: Our off-track high school students weren’t terribly interested in school until we dug into hands-on learning. EdTech Magazine: K-12 — ISTE Live 26: Doing More With Less: Kirsten Baesler on Sustainable K–12 Technology


