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NYSSCA
School Counselors: Prepared to Lead the Way!
November 17-18
Our Complete Conference Agenda is available here.
Stay tuned for additional details and visit our conference page often for updates ... See you in Syracuse.
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NYSUT
Do you know a school counselor who is also active in their local union or at the state level in NYSUT? If some nominate him or here for a NYSUT Constituency Award — Health Care Professional of the Year! Please note that the nomination forms for the 2018 "Not for Ourselves Alone: The Sandy Feldman Outstanding Leadership Award" and the NYSUT constituency awards are available at nysut.org/ra. The nomination deadline is Dec. 15! Click here for the nomination form.
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Chalkbeat New York
A few weeks ago, the parent-teacher association at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School — a high-performing public school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn — caught wind of a plan that alarmed them. The education department intended to seize control of the selective admissions process at the school and begin admitting more disadvantaged students, the PTA believed. It was only a matter of time, the group concluded, before the school would be forced to ratchet down its rigorous curriculum to accommodate the new students — in the process, they feared, undermining a successful, largely African American institution that has long been considered a neighborhood jewel.
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The New York Times
Tens of thousands of New York City public school children did not receive mandated special education services last year, the education department said in its annual report to the City Council, offering further evidence that eligible children are not getting the education the city is obligated to provide. There are nearly 200,000 students in the city school system with individualized education plans, which means that they are supposed to get services for difficulties like speech impairments, emotional disturbance or learning disabilities. But many thousands of the children each year are not having their needs met.
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Edutopia
Caring is a finite resource. I learned that from an Ojibwa second grader. At the beginning of the school year, David (not his real name) would jerk his neck back to flick the bangs out of his light brown eyes and write, "I love Mario. I love Mario. I love Mario" to the bottom of the page, and then grin and ask, "What do you think, Mr. Todd?" Some days, the page would be filled with, "I love soccer."
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 During the early part of the 20th century, the gap between high school and universities began to grow, leaving new graduates unprepared for what was ahead in college. After World War II, the College Board came up with Advanced Placement classes to help bridge this gap. The program has been expanding to provide more access in low-income and minority neighborhoods. However, the need and importance of AP classes have been questioned in recent years.
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The Plain Dealer
Good grades are still the primary key to getting into college, according to the annual report by the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Even as high school students amass as many extracurriculars as they can to pad their applications, total grade point average and grades in college prep courses were each rated as considerably important by 77 percent of colleges. Admission test scores and strength of curriculum were also rated considerably important by more than half of colleges.
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THE Journal
A new study from researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara suggests that taking career and technical education courses in the last couple years of high school may improve the chances a student will graduate. "Our findings indicate that CTE course taking, particularly when later in high school, is linked to student persistence and success," said Michael A. Gottfried, associate professor of education at UCSB, in a prepared statement. "This lends support to the idea of further expansion of CTE coursework in high school."
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Education World
Rules certainly are familiar in a classroom setting. But there are simply too many places where the methods and dynamics of rule-making and enforcing just don’t fit in with my idea of win-win. So what's the alternative? Is there a way for teachers to truly get what they want from their students without creating additional conflicts, resorting to traditional authoritarian power dynamics, or somehow compromising the emotional climate of the classroom?
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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
Students who take career and technical education courses during their junior or senior year in high school are 1.5 percent more likely to graduate on time and 1.6 percent less likely to drop out of high school for each CTE course taken, a new study has found. The results were even more pronounced for high school seniors, who were 2.1 percent more likely to graduate and 1.8 percent less likely to drop out for each CTE course they took.
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The Hechinger Report
The kindergarten-readiness gap between low-income and high-income students has not closed in a generation, even though parents are more involved than ever in their children's education and state-funded pre-K, nutrition programs, and prenatal care are more accessible now than in the late 1990s. That is the major finding of a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, in which researchers Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss analyzed kindergarten readiness data for socioeconomic groups in 1998 and 2010 to see if gaps in academic readiness have shrunk over time. The researchers found that large gaps for both reading and math performance between kindergarteners of high and low socioeconomic status were nearly the same in 1998 and 2010 even though there are more anti-poverty programs than ever before.
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eSchool News
Financial literacy, and the role of K-12 schools in promoting it, is getting lots of attention these days. To date, some states have developed standards for teaching financial literacy, but where do schools turn for resources to implement those standards and who do they turn to for advice on what aspects of money management they should teach and when?
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Education World
Earlier this month, youngsters poured into three new pre-kindergarten classrooms in Wilmington, North Carolina to start their educational careers. The project had been in the works for months with the district receiving $476,000 out of the county budget to help get the pre-k classes up and running and boosting the district's pre-K slots from 792 to 837. There’s a growing push for publicly supported pre-K classes to shift from what was once considered an “educational luxury” to programs accessible for all, with more educational experts stressing their importance.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 President Donald Trump's proposed $9.3 billion cut to the federal education budget has angered concerned citizens as well as many educators. The logic is that less investment in education translates into a bleak future for today's youth. Interestingly, a recent report reveals that while federal spending has been fairly stable, overall education spending in the United States has been subtly diminishing over the past few years, even prior to the current administration.
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Education Week
Teachers are feeling especially stressed, disrespected, and less enthusiastic about their jobs, a new survey has found. The survey, released by the American Federation of Teachers and the advocacy group Badass Teachers Association, included responses from about 5,000 educators. It follows a 2015 survey on educator stress — and finds that stress levels have grown and mental health has declined for this group in the past two years.
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EdTech Magazine
More and more of today's parents of K-12 students came of age with the internet and cell phones at their fingertips, so it's not surprising they are interested in using this technology to go beyond the parent-teacher conference.
According to the latest survey from Project Tomorrow's Speak Up Research Project, parents indicate that they favor email and text messages from schools for information on their children, eSchool News reports.
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CNN
The digital age continues to spark creative developments in education. Wireless gadgets are now commonplace in the typical American classroom. But while technology is helping thousands of students reach new heights in their education, many others are falling behind. Dubbed "the homework gap" by researchers, students without the use of reliable internet access at home find it harder to complete and submit homework assignments, further expanding the inequality already seen in low-income communities.
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EdSurge (commentary)
Farhat Ahmad, a contruibutor for EdSurge, writes: "Many educators recognize that standardized tests don't measure everything — and that some of the most critical types of growth can't be measured by a numerical score. This is especially true for at-risk students. Seven years ago, during my first year of teaching, all of my eleventh graders failed the Georgia State End of Course Test in American Literature. I was working as a special education teacher in Cobb County School District at the time. My co-teacher at the time told me not to worry about it."
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Education Week
Students who go to schools where their teachers have a leadership role in decisionmaking perform significantly better on state tests, a new study finds. But some of the leadership elements that are most related to student achievement are the ones that are least often implemented in schools.
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NPR
One in four students report being bullied, but not all say they are bullied the same way. And some students are more likely to experience bullying than others. That's what one new survey found after posing questions to more than 180,000 students across 412 schools between 2012 and 2017. The data, collected by the nonprofit organization Youth Truth Student Survey, looked at fifth- through 12th-graders in 37 states. The survey found: 73 percent of students said they were verbally abused, 53 percent reported being socially bullied, 28 percent said they were physically abused and 23 percent of students reported being harassed online.
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Scientific American
Mindfulness involves a conscious focus on and awareness of your present state of mind and surroundings, without judgment or reaction. Mindfulness is rooted in Buddhism and was developed in the 1970’s as a therapeutic intervention for stress in adults by Jon Kabat-Zinn, who founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Over the past several decades, the practice of mindfulness has evolved into a booming billion dollar industry, with growing claims that mindfulness is a panacea for host of maladies including stress, depression, failures of attention, eating disorders, substance abuse, weight gain and pain.
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Center for American Progress
About 3 million children in the United States begin kindergarten each fall, marking their entry into the American education system. However, a significant portion already have some school or early learning experience through preschool. There has been a tremendous increase in the number of children enrolled in preschool in the United States, from fewer than half a million in 1964 to nearly 4.7 million in 2014. Studies show that high-quality preschool works, and that children who attend preschool are more academically and socially prepared for kindergarten than their peers who did not attend.
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Education Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos held a roundtable for advocates for children with dyslexia. Also at the meeting was Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., a long-time advocate for dyslexia issues. We called up Cassidy, who's a member of the Senate education committee, to discuss how the meeting went and what approach he sees DeVos taking on dyslexia and other issues. This week, our colleague Christina Samuels published a story about the anxiety many special education advocates have felt about DeVos' leadership. When we asked Cassidy about whether he shared those concerns before or after the meeting, he said he was focused on dyslexia specifically and praised DeVos' willingness to hear out different ideas.
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