July 2, 2019
By: Kristin Leong
Source: EdSurge Families have moved their homes to Salisbury, North Carolina to live in the school district where Anthony Johnson teaches 4th and 5th grade on the slim chance that their children will be enrolled in his class. But no one who knew him back when he was a student, including Anthony, predicted […]
June 29, 2019
Source: ABC 7 A toddler is on the move despite a crippling condition at birth, and it’s all thanks to his dad. Little Brody was born with spina bifida and spinal cord atrophy, paralyzing him below the chest. His mom says they wanted to change his life for the better after talking with other parents. “When […]
June 28, 2019
By: Arika Herron, Indystar
Source: Chalkbeat Around the class, small clusters of 4- and 5-year-old preschoolers are engaged in different activities. Some are making paper crafts with their teacher. Another few are playing with blocks. One is asleep on a cot. Devorius and several others are bopping around the noisy, busy room. It’s barely controlled chaos. But […]
June 28, 2019
By: Beth Hawkins
Source: The 74 When it comes to living up to their obligation to serve students with disabilities, public charter schools face a host of challenges. In addition to the perennial headache of underfunding, there are bureaucratic constraints, a woeful lack of teacher preparation in special education and difficulty finding and tapping expertise. None […]
June 26, 2019
By: Amelia Harper
Source: Education Dive Prospective teachers in New York City could receive a stipend for housing in addition to intense mentoring as part of a proposed year-long residency program that would target as many as 1,000 beginning educators and match them with mentor-teachers, New York Daily News reports. The program would be intended to […]
June 26, 2019
By: Linda Jacobson
Source: Education Dive Florida eliminated the Common Core State Standards this year with an executive order from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, but in Alabama, getting rid of the standards is taking a more indirect route. Next March, Alabama voters will decide on an amendment to the state constitution that would eliminate the elected state board as […]
June 26, 2019
By: s.e. smith
Source: Vox Horrific conditions at a Clint, Texas, Border Patrol facility came to light last week when attorneys visiting the site described unaccompanied children babysitting each other, premature infants without adequate care, and other horrendous circumstances, which Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sharply described as “concentration camps.” While numerous human rights and civil liberties groups — including RAICES, […]
June 26, 2019
By: Courtney Tanner
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune Nearly every morning for the past year, Caly Watkins said that when her son woke up, he’d ask: “Do I get to go back to school today?” “No, baby,” the mom would tell her 8-year-old, who was supposed to be in second grade. “Not yet.” Sometimes, he’d cry. […]
June 25, 2019
By: Naaz Modan
Source: Education Dive As a number of state legislative sessions come to a close for the year, it’s clear that many local lawmakers had similar priorities across the nation. From addressing teacher retention to providing more mental health resources for students, legislatures tackled many of the same challenges affecting a wide number […]
June 24, 2019
By: Alyson Klein
Source: Ed Week Millennial teachers may have grown up with Snapchat and iPads, but that doesn’t mean that they feel prepared to enter the classroom ready to integrate technology into their lessons. And it’s not clear if their student-teaching experience helps them make that happen. That was the upshot of a pair […]