May 19, 2016
By: Liana Heitin
Source: edweek.org Among the most pervasive and long-standing complaints from teachers of English-language learners is the dearth of high-quality instructional materials for addressing students’ language and academic needs. Those concerns are particularly acute in middle and high school, when students have a wider range of abilities and less time to catch up. […]
May 19, 2016
By: Elisa Crouch
Source: disabilityscoop.com It’s lunch period at Parkway West High School and Holt Priest, a senior known as “the Mayor,” enters the cafeteria to begin what has been his daily ritual since August. He arranges seven chairs around a table near the windows. He exchanges handshakes and fist bumps with those who walk […]
May 18, 2016
By: Susan Frey
Source: edsource.org California foster youth who are taking advantage of newly extended services are having a smoother transition into adulthood, according to a study released this month. But the state needs to do more, the researchers say. Foster youth who remained in care after age 18 were more likely to be in […]
May 18, 2016
By: Emily Richmond
Source: theatlantic.com In an effort to measure students’ understanding of basic engineering and technology principles, a new national assessment aims to move beyond multiple-choice questions and instead focus on troubleshooting in real-world scenarios. For example, students are tasked with designing a healthier habitat for a pet iguana, or building safer bike lanes […]
May 18, 2016
By: Emma Brown
Source: washingtonpost.com Poor, black and Hispanic children are becoming increasingly isolated from their white, affluent peers in the nation’s public schools, according to new federal data showing that the number of high-poverty schools serving primarily black and brown students more than doubled between 2001 and 2014. The data was released by the Government Accountability […]
May 18, 2016
By: Karen Johnson
Source: edsurge.com As part of a groundbreaking personalized learning initiative, CICS West Belden put iPads and Chromebooks into the hands of every student at the Chicago charter school—just not right away. For the first year, West Belden tested the devices in just a few pilot classrooms—and only after teachers and students were prepared to […]
May 18, 2016
By: Nichole Dobo
Source: hechingerreport.org Education reform is often framed as an issue for schools that are failing to meet expectations. Schools where students struggle – because they tend to have fewer resources and bigger challenges – are most often the target for new school models. But some school districts that arguably have no reason […]
May 18, 2016
By: Shefali Luthra
Source: disabilityscoop.com Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books requiring health insurers to cover autism treatments. But new research evaluating the so-called “insurance mandates” suggests these efforts are failing in key ways to help people — especially children — get needed therapy. These findings, which were presented […]
May 18, 2016
By: Corey Turner
Source: npr.org “This is an intolerable situation,” Sen. Lamar Alexander said last week in a heated speech on the Senate floor. The Tennessee Republican is chairman of the Senate’s education committee, and he’s furious with the Education Department. He even gave states some remarkable advice: “If the regulations are not consistent with […]
May 18, 2016
By: Corey Mitchell
Source: edweek.org Week after week, Maria Arias Evans has to face her failure. The 60 to 70 parents who crowd the library here at Washington Elementary School each Thursday morning, chatting in Spanish and snacking on sweets donated by a local bakery, are the product of years of dogged relationship-building led by the veteran […]