June 2, 2016
By: Cory Turner
Source: npr.org What made Mozart great? Or Bobby Fischer? Or Serena Williams? The answer sits somewhere on the scales of human achievement. On one side: natural talent. On the other: hard work. Many would argue that success hangs in some delicate balance between them. But not Anders Ericsson. Ericsson has spent decades […]
June 2, 2016
By: Anya Kamenetz
Source: npr.org When students get suspended from school for a few days, they may not be the only ones who miss out. A report released today by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project tries for the first time to quantify the full social cost of so-called “exclusionary discipline.” The authors calculate that suspensions in just one […]
June 2, 2016
By: The Education Week Research Center
Source: edweek.org Graduation rates are on the rise again. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education, the on-time graduation rate for the nation’s public high schools has reached another all-time high. Eighty-two percent of the class of 2014 graduated with a regular high school diploma […]
June 1, 2016
By: Laura McKenna
Source: theatlantic.com How do you join a conversation at a middle-school lunch table? What do you say when someone says hi to you in the hallway and you don’t know her name? How do you delicately correct a member of your lab group in science without calling him stupid? Is it appropriate […]
June 1, 2016
By: Claudio Sanchez & Elissa Nadworny
Source: npr.org Gilbert Sargent is a jolly, loquacious 74-year-old. For nearly everybody in the small suburb of Versailles, Ky., he goes by “Sarge.” For 25 years, Sarge has been working on and off as a school bus driver. Today he drives for Woodford County Public Schools, a district just […]
June 1, 2016
By: Lauren Camera and Lindsey Cook
Source: usnews.com NOTTOWAY, Va. — If you follow the railroad tracks about an hour southwest of Richmond, beyond rolling green fields dotted with yellow buds of spring, down wide and winding country roads, past faded barns, some overgrown with climbing weeds and others slumping towards earth, you’ll find the Nottoway […]
June 1, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: blogs.edweek.org The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Obama administration to weigh in on whether it should grant review in a special education case about the level of education benefit required under federal law. Meanwhile, the administration has filed a brief urging the justices to take up another special education […]
June 1, 2016
By: Andrew Ujifusa
Source: edweek.org One of the newest education policy disputes in Washington is beginning to mix with one of its oldest. Discussions about inequitable resources between well-resourced schools and their poorer counterparts overlap with fresh calls to address the growing share of schools that are both economically and racially segregated. The same week […]
May 31, 2016
By: Valeria Pelet
Source: theatlantic.com From New York to Utah, U.S. schools have seen a steady rise in bilingual education. Dual-language immersion programs first appeared in the U.S. in the 1960s to serve Spanish-speaking students in Florida. Since then, the demand—and controversy—surrounding these programs has been widespread, and they now address the needs of more than 5 million students who are English-language learners in […]
May 31, 2016
By: Molly Duffy
Source: thegazette.com The state Department of Education opened two reviews of the Iowa City school district this week over the way it runs its special education program. According to a May 4 letter from the state department, one review was spurred by the district’s failure to comply with corrective measures laid out […]