May 12, 2016
By: Alex Hernandez
Source: edsurge.com WE NEED TO DEFINE PERSONALIZED LEARNING! No. No we don’t. While personalized learning (PL) may be a “thing,” it is not a thing. As of today, PL is a set of loosely-related (sometimes completely unrelated) hypotheses. Educators, families and funders are testing to see if we can do better than […]
May 12, 2016
By: Ed Yong
Source: theatlantic.com Why do some people sail through college while others drop out during high school? There are many obvious reasons, ranging from intelligence to motivation, social privilege to caring parents, great teachers to disruptive classmates. But one neglected factor—our genes—plays a small but significant role. We know that because identical twins, […]
May 12, 2016
By: Matt Krupnick
Source: hechingerreport.org High school senior Brody Ford is looking forward to the final weeks of the school year, but not for the reasons you might think. At San Diego’s High Tech High School, Ford and his fellow 12th-graders take end-of-the-year courses in personal finance, cooking on a budget, even sewing. The charter […]
May 12, 2016
By: Karega Rausch
Source: qualitycharters.org We learned a lot—both positive and not so positive—that can be used to help authorizers and schools ensure that student and public interests are protected. We also asked four national experts to share their thinking on the findings and their implications for authorizing, special education, and charter schools. Lauren Morando […]
May 12, 2016
By: Sarah D. Sparks
Source: blogs.edweek.org Remember the famous 30 million word gap in language exposure between the children of professional families and those on welfare, and all its attendant problems in reading and attention? How could educators make up for the gap for a child with no exposure to language at all in the first year […]
May 12, 2016
By: Corey Mitchell
Source: edweek.org At a time when the value of play is a raging debate in early education, Liliane Vanoy has an almost singular focus for the prekindergarten students enrolled in her school. Vanoy says the word three times for emphasis: vocabulary, vocabulary, and vocabulary. “I don’t care if your student comes here […]
May 11, 2016
By: Leila Meyer
Source: thejournal.com On World Global Collaboration Day September 17, 2015, students with special needs from Finland, Sweden, Germany, South Africa and the United States shared videos with each other introducing themselves and their school. The event kicked off an extended online global collaboration between the students, called the SMARTee Project. The students […]
May 11, 2016
By: Dylan Peers McCoy
Source: theatlantic.com When Avalon Dugan got out of treatment for drug and alcohol abuse, she had a choice: head back to the mainstream high school where she spent her freshman year or enroll in a tiny high school on the campus of the rehabilitation facility. Dugan choose the school for kids […]
May 11, 2016
By: Emma Brown
Source: washingtonpost.com A child’s access to a decent education shouldn’t be limited by his Zip code. That mantra has helped drive the school choice movement during the past two decades, pushing a growing number of cities to embrace policies that allow children from poor families to escape troubled neighborhood schools and enroll […]
May 11, 2016
By: Kelly Corrigan
Source: disabilityscoop.com Next month, Glendale Community College will debut a one-of-a-kind program to train highly functioning adults with autism to operate computer-numerical-control machines, setting them on a path to working as machinist apprentices or computer numerical control operators and programmers. The upcoming training is the result of the college’s new partnership with […]