March 29, 2016
By: Dave Gladney
Source: edsurge.com Listen to your customers. It makes sense in any business. But in education—and especially ed tech product development—this advice is more crucial than ever. We’ve been listening. My organization, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) PreK-12 Learning Group, advocates for quality content for teaching and learning. Over the years, we’ve […]
March 29, 2016
By: Emma Brown
Source: washingtonpost.com Students in the nation’s private schools are disproportionately — and in some states overwhelmingly — white. While that’s not entirely surprising, a new analysis from the Southern Education Foundation quantifies the continued segregation of white students in private schools, particularly in the South, where private-school enrollment jumped in the 1950s and 1960s as […]
March 28, 2016
By: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
Source: scpr.org California education officials have made significant changes to the way hundreds of thousands of special education students take the state’s standardized tests. But the modifications have some teachers and parents worried about whether they’ll help students. “We found some areas that we wanted to improve,” said Keric Ashley, Deputy Superintendent […]
March 28, 2016
By: Julie Chang
Source: mystatesman.com More than a quarter of Texas school districts failed to meet special education standards set by the state last year after a more rigorous test was administered. This year, the test results could be a double blow to those districts — the scores on the State of Texas Assessments of […]
March 28, 2016
By: Eric Westervelt
Source: npr.org John B. King Jr was recently confirmed by the Senate as the new U.S. Secretary of Education for the remainder of President Obama’s term, succeeding Arne Duncan. With a slew of pressing issues from pre-K to college debt, I wanted to find out what King thinks he can get done […]
March 28, 2016
By: Jason Appel
Source: edsurge.com I am a technology nerd. At age ten, I saved allowance for a year to buy my first computer, an Apple IIe. I’ve owned a smartphone since 2002, way before it was cool. I’m also a teaching nerd. Throughout my twenty years as a teacher, I’ve looked for opportunities to […]
March 28, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: edweek.org If you were following this week’s negotiated rulemaking sessions on the Every Student Succeeds Act (and if not, my colleague Alyson at Politics K-12 has written excellent recaps) you may already know that there was a collegial-but-intense discussion around assessing students with severe cognitive disabilities—so intense, in fact, that the policy […]
March 25, 2016
By: Sara Chodosh
Source: theatlantic.com When the gun goes off, a slight young girl with a shock of white hair bursts off the starting line. Her legs pump harder as she picks up speed, eventually outpacing her competitors as she sprints furiously towards the finish line. There’s just one problem: She can’t see it. “I […]
March 25, 2016
By: Fabiola Cineas
Source: ny.chalkbeat.org Last year, when parents and teachers rallied at hundreds of schools to call for additional school funding, one group’s voice was largely absent: principals. But one year later, 36 New York City principals are making a direct appeal to the state. In a letter addressed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo — […]
March 25, 2016
By: Betsy Hammond
Source: disabilityscoop.com PORTLAND, Ore. – Like many 16-year-olds, Franklin High sophomore Jerry Grimmer loves to pal around with his friends and favorite adults at school. When his teacher, Stephanie Haynes, headed to a faculty meeting, leaving Jerry’s special education class in the hands of teacher’s aides, Grimmer piped in: “You want me […]