January 10, 2020
By: Yoav Gonen, THE CITY
Source: Chalkbeat The Department of Education will for the first time screen entire grades for students who are at risk of dyslexia, as part of a trial-run that got underway this week at two Brooklyn elementary schools, officials told THE CITY. The total upfront cost: $2,000. The effort, which has been […]
January 10, 2020
By: Evie Blad
Source: Education Week When Congress passed a broad law on educating children with disabilities in 1975, it agreed to kick in federal dollars to help cover the excess costs of meeting students’ individual education needs. In the time since, federal funding for what’s now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has […]
January 9, 2020
By: Jackie Mader
Source: The Hechinger Report What if a short digital game for young children could help lower the high school drop out rate? That’s a long-range goal of a new effort by a team from Boston Children’s Hospital in collaboration with Florida State University, which has developed a 15 to 20-minute game that tests […]
January 8, 2020
By: Tiffney Lopez
Source: WOWK-TV ASHLAND, Ky. (WOWK) — A group of eighth graders at Ashland Middle School like to see if they can find problems, and then they fix them. Emily Aliff is talking about their latest invention and how it came about. Aliff says they experienced something some live with every day – a […]
January 8, 2020
By: Bekah McNeel
Source: The 74 On “meet the teacher night” at the start of school, Franklin Avenue Elementary School teacher Amber Barth leads parents and children through a social-emotional learning exercise that demonstrates the power of finding “commonality with those around us.” She has her fifth-graders play a bingo game that requires them to find […]
January 7, 2020
By: Corey Mitchell
Source: Education Week Spanish remains the language most frequently spoken by English-learners in U.S. schools by a wide margin, with roughly 76 percent of the nation’s 5 million English-learners speaking Spanish, but the numbers for several other languages are surging. Overall, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Somali were the top five languages spoken […]
January 7, 2020
By: Nora Fleming
Source: Edutopia At 7 o’clock on the dot every Monday morning, Sherietta Anderson and her fellow master teachers start making their rounds through classrooms at Educare New Orleans, meticulously checking that everything is in order for the upcoming week. Anderson confirms that all materials are ready for the lesson plans she approved the […]
January 5, 2020
By: Claudette Riley
Source: Springfield News-Leader Several times a week, Rebecca Mettler makes a 92-mile round-trip to Springfield to take her 4-year-old son to preschool. “That’s how important it is for us,” she said. “We came and visited before he was 2. We got him on the list.”… Mettler, a journalist who lives in Sarcoxie, worried […]
January 2, 2020
By: Monique Welch
Source: Tampa Bay Times VALRICO — The instructions were to think outside the box and create a project different than the typical science fair poster. “I emphasized the importance of not doing a volcano and making a mess,” said Darcy Fak, the sixth-grade earth science teacher at Navigator Academy of Leadership. “I really […]
January 2, 2020
By: Christina Veiga
Source: Chalkbeat Inside classroom No. 12 at Brooklyn’s HeartShare Taranto preschool, children play side-by-side with blocks, puzzles, or at a pretend kitchen each day. Roughly half are students with disabilities, including physical impairments, autism, and speech delays. The others are typically developing children. The Bensonhurst program is one of hundreds of community-based organizations […]