June 20, 2016
By: Alex Zimmerman
Source: chalkbeat.org As students across New York began taking mandatory Regents exams Tuesday, some of their principals were wondering whether their scores would matter at all. That’s because the state’s Board of Regents passed a new set of rules this week that eliminate the need to earn passing scores for an estimated […]
June 20, 2016
By: Emily Deruy
Source: theatlantic.com In the past several decades, advances in brain science have suggested that the learning that occurs in the first few years of a child’s life lays the groundwork for a productive adulthood. The expansion of preschool is one of the few topics where both Republicans and Democrats in Congress find […]
June 20, 2016
By: Perry Stein
Source: washingtonpost.com There has been a steady drop in suspensions and expulsions at the District’s traditional public schools and public charter schools since the city started releasing detailed, school-level statistics on discipline beginning in the 2012-2013 academic year, according to a new study from the Center on Reinventing Public Education. The citywide […]
June 20, 2016
By: Carla Jefferson
Source: edsurge.com In my heart, I will always be a middle school English Language Arts teacher. As I continue this path as a district administrator, I want to hold close to my heart the plight of the teacher: what it’s like to have to work all day with children and then go […]
June 20, 2016
By: Luba Ostashevsky
Source: hechingerreport.org Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. And not always as reward for a correct answer. Teachers use them as conceptual props to explain an operation like division. It works intuitively enough with whole numbers. If you have 12 cookies and four friends, how can […]
June 20, 2016
By: Gabrielle Emanuel
Source: npr.org Twenty years ago, Aimée Eubanks Davis taught in a middle school that served low-income kids in New Orleans. She didn’t define success in terms of test scores. Instead, she focused on the future, wanting her students to graduate from college and find a good job. Eubanks Davis remembers when some […]
June 20, 2016
By: Susanne Denham
Source: edutopia.org Social and emotional learning (SEL) plays a key role in children’s academic readiness and success. Students with strong SEL skills participate more in the classroom, have more positive attitudes about and involvement with school, are more accepted by classmates, and are given more instruction and positive feedback by teachers. Without […]
June 16, 2016
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop Officials at the U.S. Department of Education are raising concerns that school districts are inappropriately holding up or preventing evaluations of kids who may have disabilities. In a notice sent to state education leaders across the country this spring, the federal agency said that it is worried that some […]
June 16, 2016
By: Elissa Nadworny
Source: NPR.org Why would she teach preschool when she could make a heck of a lot more money teaching kindergarten? It’s a question I’ve heard over and over again reporting on education. In some places, we pay early childhood teachers less than fast-food workers, less than tree trimmers. As a country, we’ve […]
June 16, 2016
By: Jessica Toste and Brad Palmertree
Source: The Hechinger Report Bridging identity, community The safety needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students turned paramount Sunday when a man walked into a gay nightclub and embarked on the worst shooting in U.S. history. The symbolism of this atrocity taking place is not lost on […]