June 16, 2016
By: Christina Samules
Source: Education Week The New York Board of Regents voted Tuesday to make it easier for some students in special education to earn a high school diploma, the latest in a series of changes intended to ease the path to graduation for students with disabilities. The new regulation requires district superintendents to […]
June 15, 2016
By: Melanie Asmar
Source: chalkbeat.org In a school district often criticized for not listening to the community, a few parents recently sat down with Denver Public Schools staff to revise its 13-year-old family engagement policy. One of the first things they did was daydream, said Theresa Becker, the district’s director of family constituency services. “Close […]
June 15, 2016
By: Perry Stein
Source: washingtonpost.com Madison Essig danced at two proms her senior year. There was her high school’s traditional senior prom, where she asked a junior as a date in a cupcake-filled promposal. She wore a sleeveless black dress and heels that gave her 4-foot-6 frame a few extra inches. Before that prom, there […]
June 15, 2016
By: Mary Jo Madda
Source: edsurge.com They call Denver the Mile-High City, but come June, the city may start to buckle under the weight of tens of thousands of educators and companies, flocking to Colorado for the annual International Society for Technology in Education (more commonly known as ISTE) conference, taking place from June 26-29. […]
June 15, 2016
By: Emily Richmond
Source: hechingerreport.org Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. “This is just the medicine we need,” Cassellius recalls telling the reporter. “Every kid […]
June 15, 2016
By: Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz
Source: disabilityscoop.com Doug Williams started noticing the signs when his son was six months old. The absence of facial expressions. The drift of his gaze. Eventually, the agitation. The official autism diagnosis came more than a year later, along with the whirlwind of figuring out schools and therapies. Not until his son, […]
June 15, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: edweek.org One of the hottest topics in early-childhood education is the “word gap”—the division in pre-literacy skills between children who are immersed in rich language from their earliest days and children who do not get that experience. High-quality child care and preschool are supposed to help close that gap. But those […]
June 15, 2016
By: Linda Wertheimer
Source: npr.org Black preschoolers are suspended 3.6 times more often than whites—just one of many revelations from the Department of Education. Host Linda Wertheimer speaks to Ed Team reporter Anya Kamenetz. LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Remember the black teenager who was thrown from her desk by a school cop? Violence in schools, bullying […]
June 14, 2016
By: Melinda Anderson
Source: theatlantic.com The image of black and white children hand-in-hand is possibly the most well-known and most often quoted line from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Over the years, black and white youngsters playing together has evolved from a civil-rights leader’s vision of racial equality to a clothing […]
June 14, 2016
By: Jon Marcus
Source: hechingerreport.org Covering much of one wall of Paul Richards’ office at the Calderstones School is an impressive collection of thank-you notes. Many are from students Richards, in his role overseeing the equivalent of the American junior and senior grades of high school, has successfully prodded into college. This is not as […]