April 19, 2016
By: Jill Barshay
Source: hechingerreport.org For more than a year, social justice activists have been attacking one of education’s latest buzzwords: grit. They’ve been arguing that it’s wrong, and possibly racist, to blame low-income black and Hispanic students for not having enough of it. And they contend that education reformers should focus on fixing systems […]
April 19, 2016
By: Sarah D. Sparks
Source: edweek.org Washington Traditional methods of studying social-emotional skills will have to evolve in more reliable, less subjective ways if educators and policymakers expect to incorporate them validly into accountability systems and school improvement plans, education researchers meeting here last week cautioned. The federal Every Student Succeeds Act broadens the definition of […]
April 19, 2016
By: James Doubek
Source: npr.org As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today. Typing your notes is faster — which comes in handy when there’s a lot of information to take down. But it turns out […]
April 19, 2016
By: Karen Johnson
Source: edsurge.com To get a solid understanding of her students’ progress, Elizabeth Doggett needed to look no further than her laptop. As a teacher at Summit Public Schools, a West Coast charter network, Doggett had access to a broad range of fine-grained data about each of her students through an online student information dashboard. […]
April 19, 2016
By: Jackie Mader
Source: hechingerreport.org This is the third story in a three-part series about teacher preparation and whether programs are doing enough to prepare new teachers to take over their own classrooms. WASHINGTON — In her large, bright, pre-K classroom, the teacher turned to the group of 4-year-olds learning how to give a baby […]
April 19, 2016
By: Catherine Gewertz
Source: blogs.edweek.org Students who receive testing accommodations could get new protections when they take state-required college admissions exams, under proposed draft regulations for the Every Student Succeeds Act. Draft regulations released earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Education acknowledge a growing problem as states increasingly embrace the SAT or ACT as […]
April 19, 2016
By: Nicholas Provenzano
Source: edutopia.org The Edcamp movement is something that I’ve been very lucky to watch unfold in its early stages. Almost seven years ago, I remember seeing people on my Twitter feed talk about getting together and learning from one another. I thought it was a cool idea. And once I learned more […]
April 19, 2016
By: Anya Kamentz
Source: npr.org Think about our planet for a second. Earth has an elliptical — oval-shaped — orbit. That means we’re closer to the sun for one part of the year and farther away another part of the year. Does that fact explain why it’s hotter in the summer and colder in the […]
April 19, 2016
By: Cory Turner/ Reema Khrais/ Tim Lloyd/ Alexandra Olgin
Source: npr.org Let’s begin with a choice. Say there’s a check in the mail. It’s meant to help you run your household. You can use it to keep the lights on, the water running and food on the table. Would you rather that check be for […]
April 15, 2016
By: Jackie Mader
Source: theatlantic.com WASHINGTON—In her large, bright, pre-K classroom, the teacher turned to the group of 4-year-olds learning how to give a baby a bath. She sat on the carpet and cradled a doll carefully as eager students strained their necks to watch. “How am I holding the baby?” the teacher, Alina Kaye, […]