October 9, 2019
By: Debra West
Source: The 74 They had each other’s hearts for a while, but two high school lovebirds captured the hearts of America — and the world — when a simple date request went viral. David Cowan, a senior at Seminole High School in Sanford, Florida, took flowers and a poster to a football game […]
October 9, 2019
By: Kyong-Ah Kwon
Source: Ed Surge “I’ve had my knees replaced. It’s some genetic, but also the work I do. I’m up and down, up and down, up and down all the time. I recently had a rib out of place so I went to therapy and was out of work for six weeks because I […]
October 9, 2019
By: Shawna De La Rosa
Source: Education Dive Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday announced $71.6 million in federal funding to improve school safety and student access to mental health resources, according to a press release. Dive Insight: These grants reflect the shift to prevent violence in schools through proactive means like improved […]
October 8, 2019
By: Bill Salak
Source: eSchool News New and creative uses of artificial intelligence are being developed every day. The potential of AI in education cannot be overstated. In edtech, the use of AI has flown largely under the radar thus far, but it has the potential to reimagine the student-teacher relationship and improve student outcomes across […]
October 8, 2019
By: Maddie Capron and Christina Zdanowicz
Source: CNN Parents are usually proud of their children when they take their first steps, but for Lovely Johnson, it made her daughter her hero. Johnson’s 6-year-old daughter, Love, took her first steps ever last week. Love has cerebral palsy, a group of disorders that affect a person’s ability to […]
October 7, 2019
By: Alex Zimmerman
Source: Chalkbeat When Eileen Bramer began as a school aide at Long Island City’s P.S. 111 in 1986, the job mostly involved doing whatever the teachers asked of her and remaining “more in the background.” Three decades later, Bramer is still technically an assistant, but her role has changed dramatically: She and her […]
October 7, 2019
By: Molly Ness
Source: Education Week Thsi is ont waht dyslexia lokso lkie. Most likely, you were able to read the previous sentence. A powerful pattern seeker, your brain ignored the errors and instead sought out pre-existing logical patterns to reconstruct a meaningful sentence. Too many children, however, will never be able to complete such a […]
October 6, 2019
By: Kristen Taketa
Source: Los Angeles Times SAN DIEGO – The law says public schools must give students with disabilities the services that meet their individual needs, but parents and districts often disagree on what those services should be or whether a student needs services at all. Every year school districts across California settle thousands of […]
October 3, 2019
By: Maury Glover
Source: Fox 9 News MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Inside a classroom at Southwest High School in Minneapolis, the walls are lined with guitars, but this is no ordinary school of rock. “I do singing, drumming and that’s all there is to it,” said Michael McCormick, a student in 3 Strings Band. “Playing music makes […]
October 2, 2019
By: Linda Jacobson
Source: Education Dive Sara Sweetman, a University of Rhode Island (URI) assistant professor, still remembers pulling her car over to the side of the road in 2009 to take an important phone call. Sesame Workshop was ready to bring science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to the most famous street in America, and Rosemarie Truglio, senior […]