July 12, 2016
By: Lillian Mongeau By: hechingerreport.org He was very angry. He was scratching his face, kicking, and screaming,” preschool teacher Carrie Giddings said of one of her students during his first days in her class at Kruse Elementary School in northern Colorado. The boy’s father had been in and out of jail, Giddings said. She thinks […]
July 12, 2016
By: Todd Spangler
Source: disabilityscoop.com The U.S. Supreme Court said late last month that it will consider the case of a 12-year-old Jackson, Mich., girl with cerebral palsy and a goldendoodle named Wonder, deciding whether Ehlena Fry’s family can sue for damages from a school district that balked at the service dog’s presence in the […]
July 12, 2016
By: Avery Lill
Source: npr.org Summer break for many students is a time to kick back, play outside, and hang out with friends. For a significant portion of public school students in the United States, however, the end of school also brings a familiar question—what’s for lunch? During the school year, about 30.3 million children […]
July 12, 2016
By: Kendra Yoshinaga
Source: npr.org There’s a reason Jose Luis Vilson’s students learn in groups: He wants them to feel comfortable working with anyone in the classroom, something he’s realized in his 11 years of teaching doesn’t always come naturally. “I don’t really give students a chance to self-select until later on, when I feel […]
July 12, 2016
By: Mark Walsh
Source: edweek.org The high court’s recently concluded term had the potential to be more momentous for education than it turned out to be—the Feb. 13 death of Justice Antonin Scalia at age 79 dominated the second half and resulted in deadlocks for two major cases of importance to educators, one involving teachers’ […]
July 12, 2016
By: Joshua Starr
Source: chalkbeat.org For school system leaders, the summer should be a time of reflection and planning for the upcoming school year. This summer, that reflection and planning must include strategizing about how to work against racism in our society. I believe system leaders, especially superintendents, need to confront head on the violence being perpetrated on […]
July 12, 2016
By: Emma Brown
Source: washingtonpost.com In the hours after a Minnesota police officer shot school cafeteria manager Philando Castile during a traffic stop Wednesday evening, the teachers who worked with Castile — and the parents who knew him — endured waves of shock and grief. And then, alongside their own tumult of emotion, they began […]
July 12, 2016
By: Gabrielle Emanuel
Source: npr.org Four guys walk into a diner. One, in a plaid shirt, sells golf equipment online. His name is Chris Regan. Two — Eric Schiffhauer and Jordan Wagner — are midway through their Ph.D.’s at Johns Hopkins University. And the other, Jebree Christian, is a recent high school graduate from West […]
July 12, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: blogs.edweek.org Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia need some degree of support in meeting the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s most recent evaluation of state performance. For the third year in a row, the Education Department evaluated states on the […]
July 12, 2016
By: Robin L. Flanigan
Source: edweek.org When South Carolina chemistry teacher Justin Simpson decided to use the water crisis in Flint, Mich., as a backdrop for a water-quality project, he turned to his school’s technology coach, Tami Lenker. She brainstormed ways to use apps and other software programs that Simpson didn’t know about—or have the […]