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NYSSCA
Our Annual Conference will be held at the beautiful, Tarrytown DoubleTree hotel in Westchester County on Nov. 18-19. We will celebrate, "School Counselors Making a Difference." Registration still open! Visit our Conference Page for the conference brochure and registration information.
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NYSUT
In collaboration with SED, NYSUT is co-sponsoring a free one-day professional development conference for educators working with English language learners. The event, which can be used to fulfill state professional development requirements, will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany. Click here to register by Nov. 7.
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NYSED Native American Education Unit
The NYSED Native American Education Unit provides student aid and other resources through high school counseling offices. For details, please see the linked brochure and Q&A; and download the poster for your office. You can also reach the program coordinator, Clarissa Jacobs-Roraback, at 518-474-0537 or email her at Clarissa.Jacobs-Roraback@nysed.gov.
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NEA
As part of the NEA's American Education Week, Nov. 14-18, Substitute Educators Day focuses on the importance of substitute school employees. These professional educators perform a vital function in the maintenance and continuity of daily education.
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Foster's Daily Democrat
Less than 20 percent of school districts in the U.S. meet the recommended student-to-school counselor ratio of 250:1 or lower, according to new research from the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. The median ratio is 411:1. The researchers found that access to school counselors varies considerably across states. Median ratios are more than 1,000:1 in Arizona and California, but under 250:1 in North Carolina, North Dakota, Vermont, New Hampshire and Montana. Although rural districts are the most likely to lack any school counselors, the median caseload is lower and more than 25 percent of the districts meet the American School Counselor Association recommendations. In cities, only 4.2 percent of districts meet the recommended ratio.
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The New York Times
David L. Kirp, a contributor for The New York Times, writes: "When I was in high school, I earned A's in all my math classes — until I took calculus. In algebra and geometry, I could coast on memorizing formulas, but now I had to think for myself. It was disastrous, culminating in my getting a charity 'C,' and I barely passed my college calculus class. The reason, I was convinced, was that I didn't have a math mind. I have avoided the subject ever since."
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The Washington Post
President Barack Obama has been talking up the newly released U.S. high school graduation rate of 83.2 percent, with the White House noting in an announcement that the rate has grown by about four percentage points since the 2010-2011 school year. That was the first year when all states used a consistent measure of high school completion. Obama didn't take direct credit for the rate rise but the announcement — and a speech Obama gave at a D.C. high school about his education record — detail programs Obama launched that appear to be an attempt to link his administration to the upward graduation trend.
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U.S. News & World Report
High school graduation rates have steadily risen in recent years – an important feat for public education. Previous generations may have been able to get a manufacturing job without a high school diploma and still have a middle-class life, but that doesn't exist anymore, says Bob Balfanz, director of the Everyone Graduates Center at John Hopkins University, which is working to help get all students to graduate.
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The New York Times
Nearly all high school students want to go to college these days, studies show, but many never make it. Of those who do, many fail to earn their degrees. Researchers call this the "aspirations-attainment gap." What stops kids from getting a college degree? Poor academic preparation, rising college costs, the declining value of financial aid and, not least, just managing the process. Applying to college requires a huge amount of social capital — the support of family, friends, mentors and teachers — as well as personal drive and initiative.
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Fox News
Several schools across the nation have decided to close on Election Day over fears of possible violence in the hallways stemming from the fallout from the heated rhetoric that consumed the campaign trail. The fear is the ugliness of the election season could escalate into confrontations and even violence in the school hallways, endangering students.
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 This is bad, and it's far too common: Struggling learners fail to generalize what they've learned in class. When it's needed in other places, it seems "lost" or "foreign" to them. In this example, what Marco seems to have mastered in his resource program, he doesn't apply outside of class. Like many struggling learners, he has problems with a mysterious sounding concept: stimulus generalization. Marco's mother — a composite of many parents I've known — embodies the problem.
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Education DIVE
About five years ago, the fundraising efforts at John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in New York's Westchester County could be described as scattered, at best. One team might focus on alumni, another on something as granular as alumni who ran track, another on a group as broad as prospective donors capital campaigns. The data each group collected was stored in different places, mostly on paper. Now, the school has a central repository to track outreach to every family in the school community, past and present, and to track efforts for campaigns large and small. It also has a "click and pledge" option on the school website that feeds donor information directly into the central system, recording their donations and tying the new data into any information from prior years.
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Education Week
Fed up with long rosters of college freshmen who can't handle college-level courses, states are increasingly turning to 12th grade transition classes to build academic muscle to help students skip the remedial courses that can diminish their chances of earning a degree. From coast to coast, states are bringing together high school teachers and college faculty to design a breed of English and math courses that reflect college expectations. Students who perform well in them can enroll directly in entry-level, credit-bearing courses in their state's colleges, rather than wasting time and money on remedial classes.
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Forbes
Jeena Cho, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "Teenagers are under more pressure than ever before. Many of these challenges are familiar: trying to find their self-identity, gain independence and fit in with their peers. However, teenagers are facing new challenges such as social media, digital technology and gender identity. I wanted to gain a better understanding of the types of struggles teenagers are facing, and some helpful tips. I sat down with Brittany Sheridan, M.A., N.C.C., from Family Service Association. For the past two years, she has acted as program manager for the Egg Harbor Township School-Based Youth Services Program. She is a nationally certified counselor as well as a New Jersey State certified school counselor."
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American Academy of Pediatrics via Science Daily
In findings that will not surprise the parents of any school-aged child, new research finds that the more time children spend using digital devices, the less likely they are to finish their homework. Children who spent two to four hours a day using digital devices outside of schoolwork had 23 percent lower odds of always or usually finishing their homework, compared to children who spent less than two hours consuming digital media.
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Education Week
There's no hard-and-fast evidence that Race to the Top, the Obama administration's $4 billion, signature K-12 initiative had a long-term impact on student achievement or state policy, according to a report released Wednesday by the Institute for Education Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education's research arm. "Differences in student achievement between [Race to the Top] states and other states may be due to other factors and not to the program said Lisa Dragoset, a senior researcher at Mathematica, which performed the evaluation for IES.
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Education Week
The published prices for college tuition and fees in 2016-17 rose only moderately in the last year, but they are still rising faster than financial aid, leaving students in a bind as they try to finance postsecondary education, according to a pair of reports published Wednesday. Published prices for tuition and fees — the "sticker price" colleges charge, not counting any loans, grants or tax credits that reduce the amount students pay — rose less in the last year than they did the year before, according to the College Board's latest "Trends in College Pricing" and "Trends in Student Aid" reports.
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MindShift
When Jerry Smith became a principal six years ago he had been teaching for 22 years, so his administrative style is firmly rooted in the belief that the important stuff goes on in classrooms. When he took over Luella High School outside Atlanta, he began thinking about how he could propel fundamental change in what was then a traditional comprehensive high school. When a third of the students and a big chunk of the staff relocated to a new high school the district opened to ease crowding at Luella, Smith knew the moment was ripe for even bigger shifts.
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Edutopia
Max is one of my sixth-grade students. He meanders into the classroom each day carrying in a past filled with tragedy. His mother was murdered last spring and his father almost exactly a year before her. Now living with his alcoholic grandmother, Max continues to struggle with the aftermath of these tragedies.
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By: Julie Bernhard (commentary)
 Online feuds played out between celebrities consistently grab headlines. The Kardashians are notorious for engaging in arguments for public consumption, with one of the more recent quarrels between Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift dubbed as the biggest celebrity feud of 2016. While the Kardashians can only gain further fame by poking and provoking their "enemies," it would be easy to conclude that it's at the expense of promoting the biggest teen threat of this age: cyberbullying.
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