May 21, 2019
By: Erika Ross
Source: The 74 As part of Education Week’s “Answering Your ESSA Questions” series, Alyson Klein responds to a question posed by Sheryl Santos-Hatchett of the University of North Texas: “What if a state refuses to follow through on or retracts a state plan and doesn’t care about funding? Does ESSA have any teeth to close […]
May 19, 2019
By: Audra D. S. Burch, David Gelles and Emily S. Rueb
Source: The New York Times The 396 young men began the day as students in caps and gowns, ready to graduate from Morehouse College — full of hope, but burdened in most cases with the debts that financed their education. Then their commencement speaker went off-script with […]
May 17, 2019
By: Lauren Ellison, Kimberly Brdar
Source: Edutopia In the age of digital literacy, educators have to find balance between traditional teaching methods and the integration of digital materials. The balance is particularly important for students with disabilities. One useful technological tool that research has shown is effective is video-mediated instruction (VMI). VMI capitalizes on the visual processing […]
May 16, 2019
By: Amelia Harper
Source: Education Dive In the 2015-16 school years, seven years after the recession caused major hits to school districts’ budgets, more real dollars were invested in Pre-K through 12 than before the recession, Stephen Cornman, a statistician with the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, noted after examining a new analysis […]
May 15, 2019
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop President Donald Trump is attempting to make good on his promise to continue providing federal funding for Special Olympics. Trump sent an amended budget proposal to Congress this week, which includes money for Special Olympics for the next fiscal year beginning in October. “Today, I officially updated my budget […]
May 14, 2019
By: Corey Mitchell
Source: Education Week English-language learners and students with disabilities—groups of children once taught in isolated classrooms with specially trained instructors—spend more time in general education classrooms now than in years past. But many general education teachers are not equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to meet the needs of English-learners or […]
May 14, 2019
By: Sarah Gahagan, Lesli Foster
Source: WUSA9 Some Virginia teachers couldn’t afford their dream classroom, so a group of strangers made it for them. Samantha Patton, a functional academics teacher, described the classroom around her. “It’s kind of boring. It’s square,” Patton said. It’s the classroom where she and Sterling Middle School teacher Allison Steves, […]
May 14, 2019
By: Michelle R. Davis
Source: Market Brief A new analysis of K-12 school district spending bolsters the notion that many ed-tech products and software purchased aren’t actually used or don’t have the intended impact. Ed-tech company Glimpse K12 studied $2 billion in school spending and found that on average, 67 percent of educational software product licenses go unused. Glimpse K12 […]
May 14, 2019
By: Shawna De La Rosa
Source: Education Dive Thanks to artificial intelligence, the days of assembly-line manufacturing jobs are coming to an end. Students will graduate into positions that require thought and collaboration. The cubicle office design is becoming extinct, which means straight lines of desks and chairs no longer meet the needs of students […]
May 13, 2019
By: Caroline Bauman
Source: Chalkbeat Mehreen Butt has helped to build an award-winning computer science program at a Nashville charter school – and she’s doing it in part for other young women of color like her. The educator for RePublic High School said her goal is to close the gaps in computer science for women and people […]