March 25, 2016
By: Sarah D. Sparks
Source: edweek.org District open-enrollment policies have gained traction in many urban areas as a way to give students more access to high-quality schools, but a new study suggests students who were “big fish” in their neighborhood schools can have a rough road in a new school, even if it is academically better. […]
March 24, 2016
By: Nichole Dobo
Source: hechingerreport.org A warehouse in the Rust Belt might not seem like a setting fit for designing the future of education. But this isn’t just any old space. A foundation in Columbus, Ohio, renovated the empty industrial building last year and named it the PAST Innovation Lab. And last week dozens of […]
March 24, 2016
By: Eric Westervelt
Source: npr.org Kelly Henderson loves her job, teaching at Newton South High School in a suburb west of Boston. But she’s frustrated she can’t afford to live in the community where she teaches: It’s part of the 10th most expensive housing market in the nation. “For people in the private sector, they’re […]
March 24, 2016
By: Emily Deruy
Source: theatlantic.com Many more black students are graduating from college than a decade ago. According to a new report from The Education Trust, a nonprofit that focuses on improving outcomes for low-income students of color, completion rates for African Americans increased at nearly 70 percent of the four-year public schools that raised […]
March 24, 2016
By: Liana Heitin
Source: edweek.org The common core’s impact on student achievement may have peaked early and already tapered off, according to a new analysis of national test scores by the Brookings Institution’sBrown Center on Education Policy. “Most people when they think about common core, they think we won’t see an impact for 10 years,” […]
March 23, 2016
By: Zaidee Stavely
Source: kqed.org More than halfway through the school year, Oakland Unified School District still has teacher vacancies, and that’s had an impact on special education students. As of February, the district had 14 teacher vacancies, six of which were for special education teachers. There were also 16 vacancies for special education aides. Vacancies in special […]
March 23, 2016
By: Will Richardson
Source: willrichardson.com Whenever I think about the way most schools are structured today, I always come back to the same question: Do we do the things we do because they’re better for kids or because they are easier for us? For instance: separating kids by age in school. Is that something we […]
March 23, 2016
By: Emily Deruy
Source: theatlantic.com A shakeup at Teach for America, the controversial nonprofit that places recent college graduates in low-income school districts across the country, will eliminate the organization’s Office of the Chief Diversity Officer this fall. The announcement comes amid layoffs that will shrink the national staff about by 15 percent. While Teach […]
March 23, 2016
By: Christina Samuels
Source: edweek.org Does a fidgety, distractible, and disruptive youngster have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? Or is the behavior just an example of the emotional ups and downs of young childhood? A recent highly-publicized study in Taiwan has renewed interest in this question. Its findings—and the results of similar studies conducted in other countries—lend […]
March 21, 2016
By: Michelle Diament
Source: disabilityscoop.com Federal education officials are taking new steps to address the academic needs of students with disabilities who have significant behavior challenges. The U.S. Department of Education says that many kids with behavior or learning issues are intellectually capable, but are underperforming academically simply because they are not being provided appropriate interventions […]