October 31, 2019
By: Yoav Gonen, The City, Alex Zimmerman
Source: Chalkbeat Neifi Jorge entered his Bronx high school barely reading at a second-grade level, struggling to identify words like “stove” and “behind.” Though the Tremont youth had a special education plan, known as an individualized education program or IEP, since the second grade, it had repeatedly been changed […]
October 30, 2019
By: Erin Whinnery and Damion Pechota
Source: Ed Note Did you know nearly 1 in 5 high school students and 1 in 20 middle school children currently use electronic cigarettes? Between 2011 and 2018, e-cigarette use among high schoolers increased 78%. Additionally, one survey found two-thirds of e-cigarette users ages 15-24 do not know that e-cigarette products contain nicotine. The U.S. […]
October 30, 2019
By: Naaz Modan
Source: Education Dive A nationwide movement to delay school start times gained fuel this month after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill mandating later start times for most middle and high schools. SB 328, the first legislation of its kind, requires public and charter middle schools in California to start […]
October 30, 2019
By: Sarah D. Sparks
Source: Education Week The latest results of the tests known as the Nation’s Report Card offer a mostly grim view of academic progress in U.S. schools. “Over the past decade, there has been no progress in either mathematics or reading performance, and the lowest-performing students are doing worse,” said Peggy Carr, the […]
October 29, 2019
By: Laura Faith Kebede
Source: Chalkbeat Up to 750 Memphis students will walk into class soon to find their teacher greeting them via video conference. The Shelby County Schools board voted unanimously on Tuesday evening with no further discussion to approve a $841,000 contract with Proximity Learning, an online teaching company that helps districts across the […]
October 25, 2019
By: Nara Schoenberg, The Chicago Tribune/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop Last year, Halloween was a challenge for Luke Taylor. His mom, Omairis Taylor, didn’t think he’d need to carry a blue bucket indicating he had autism; he was so little at age 2, she reasoned, that she could just speak for him. But after four or five […]
October 25, 2019
By: Kelly Field
Source: The Hechinger Report LOGAN, Utah — It was Day One of orientation for the 15 students in Utah State University’s program for students with intellectual disabilities, and the group was playing a game of Get-to-Know-You Bingo. Courtney Jorgensen, pen in hand, wandered the courtyard, searching for the unlikely individuals who didn’t use […]
October 25, 2019
By: Erin Golden
Source: Star Tribune In one corner of Edina’s South View Middle School, each day starts with a lesson in friendship. There are no specific directions or assignments. But there are board games, time for conversation, and most important, an opportunity for kids who would once have lived very separate lives at school to […]
October 23, 2019
By: Susan Abram
Source: The 74 A recent federal report found administrative and financial obstacles challenged the ability to keep foster youth in their school of origin. Los Angeles might emerge as a pioneer on fighting those barriers, now that one of the largest school districts in the nation has approved its share of a five-year, at least […]
October 22, 2019
By: Stephen Noonoo
Source: Ed Surge In 1995, NASA astronaut Dr. Bernard Harris became the first African American to perform a spacewalk. The occasion? His second space shuttle flight during a mission that included a rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir. In all, Dr. Harris ended up spending more than 18 days in space over two trips, […]