June 9, 2016
By: Valerie Strauss
Source: washingtonpost.com If you look on the U.S. government’s “Let’s Move” website, which promotes the importance of physical activity for young people, you will find that it says this: Physical activity is an essential component of a healthy lifestyle. In combination with healthy eating, it can help prevent a range of chronic […]
June 9, 2016
By: Jin-Soo Huh
Source: edsurge.com As the school year winds down, some educators have spent numerous hours finding the right online products for the 2016-2017 school year by taking demos from vendors, piloting programs, and soliciting feedback. Others went to a conference, saw something shiny, and bought it for their entire school or district. But, […]
June 9, 2016
By: Michelle Diament
Source: disabilityscoop.com Students with disabilities are more frequently absent from school and continue to be disciplined at far higher rates than their typically-developing peers, federal officials say. New data released Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Education indicates that kids with disabilities are twice as likely to be suspended and they account […]
June 9, 2016
By: Byrd Pinkterton
Source: npr.org What is language? What is beauty? Who gets to decide? Philosophers have grappled with these questions for centuries, and they’ve generated a pile of long (and often tortured) books in their efforts to answer them. But for Tom Wartenberg, some of the best books about philosophy are much shorter and […]
June 9, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: blogs.edweek.org Some parents of students with disabilities see a clear benefit to voucher programs to escape public schools that are a poor fit, even though the vouchers rarely pay the full cost of private school tuition and, in some cases, accepting one means giving up rights under the Individuals with Disabilities […]
June 9, 2016
By: Anthony Rebora
Source: edweek.org A majority of K-12 educators responding to a new survey see themselves as risk takers or early adopters in using technology. But the exclusive survey, conducted by the Education Week Research Center for this year’s edition of Technology Counts, found that teachers, on the whole, still face systemic challenges in adapting […]
June 8, 2016
By: Elizabeth Harris
Source: nytimes.com There are supposed to be 27 children in Harold Boyd IV’s second-grade classroom, but how many of them will be there on a given day is anyone’s guess. Since school began in September, five new students have arrived and eight children have left. Two transferred out in November. One who […]
June 8, 2016
By: Jonathan Zimmerman
Source: theatlantic.com A few years ago, Jerome Bruner visited a graduate seminar I teach at New York University about educational research and politics. I told Jerry that I agreed with almost everything he wrote about education, but I feared that most Americans didn’t. What if it turned out that the country didn’t […]
June 8, 2016
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: disabilityscoop.com A coming-of-age documentary about a man with autism is set to debut at theaters across the country this summer. “Life, Animated” will be released starting July 1 at movie theaters in New York and Los Angeles, with at least a dozen other markets already committed to showing the film later […]
June 8, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: edweek.org It’s not often that special education research gets attention from more than teachers and other academics. But it’s also not often that research purports to upend decades of accepted wisdom in the field—and also takes direct aim at race-related policy issues currently under debate at the federal level. In 2015, […]