March 31, 2016
By: Anya Kamenetz
Source: npr.org More than half of public school students are members of minority groups, but 83 percent of their teachers are white. Half of students are boys, while three-quarters of teachers are women. Students can benefit in many ways from having teachers who look like them, but in many schools around the […]
March 31, 2016
By: Jin-Soo Huh
Source: edsurge.com Education has a long tradition of being rife with buzzwords, and these are just some of the latest ones thrown about today. Buzzwords are not inherently bad. They usually have their roots in a strong idea that can push education in a positive way. But, like in a game of […]
March 31, 2016
By: Emma Brown
Source: washingtonpost.com Many in the education world talk about the power of expectations, expressing the belief that if adults in a school expect students to succeed, then students will rise to that expectation, and if adults expect failure — well, that, too, can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now a new study suggests that race plays a […]
March 31, 2016
By: Alyson Klein
Source: edweek.org The new Every Student Succeeds Act, signed into law Dec. 10, 2016, rolls back much of the federal government’s big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low-performing schools. And it gives new leeway to states in calling the shots. That’s a big change from […]
March 30, 2016
By: Susan Du
Source: citypages.com When Aaron Benner taught fourth grade at John A. Johnson Elementary in St. Paul, he never had the time or the support necessary to coach kids with extra needs while trying to teach the rest of his class. But the kids liked him, so administrators would send challenging students of […]
March 30, 2016
By: Nicholas Rizzi
Source: dnainfo.com GREAT KILLS — A high school dedicated to special needs kids is as bad as a “prison complex” with conditions so bad they should shock the city, a councilman charges. Great Kills High School, an annex of P.S. 37 at 110 Shafter Ave. on Staten Island which teaches students with […]
March 30, 2016
By: Jaweed Kaleem
Source: theatlantic.com The modern homeschooling movement is one of revolt. From its humble beginnings in the ’70s, led by graduates of the hippie generation who saw public schools as too constrained and religious, to its pop-cultural peak in the ’80s and ’90s under conservative Christians who wanted more God and less evolution […]
March 30, 2016
By: Gabrielle Emanuel
Source: npr.org On a quiet street in Detroit, light pours into the back windows of the Kirksey home. In the back of the house the walls are lined with textbooks, workbooks and multicultural children’s books. It’s a home — but it’s also a classroom. Brandon, 8, is wearing pajamas and a paper […]
March 30, 2016
By: Andrew Ujifusa & Sarah Tully
Source: edweek.org Advocates for parent and community engagement see the newly revised federal K-12 law as an opportunity to expand their impact on states’ academic goals, plans for school improvement, and other areas of policy. Requirements in federal education law for parental involvement in public schools are nothing new. […]
March 30, 2016
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: disabilityscoop.com Adults with autism are increasingly showing up in emergency rooms, with a new study finding that such visits more than doubled over a five-year period. In an analysis of emergency room visits across the country, researchers found that individuals with autism ages 22 to 64 accounted for 2,549 per 100,000 […]