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District Administration Magazine
The push to establish national academic benchmarks may have been dealt yet another blow by the Every Student Succeeds Act. Nearly two dozen states began revising the Common Core after the new law reaffirmed their authority to create their own standards. As of this writing, three states had reversed their adoption of the Common Core: Indiana, Oklahoma and South Carolina. Four states — Alaska, Nebraska, Texas and Virginia — never adopted the standards. And one state — Minnesota — adopted only the English language arts standards.
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Education Week
How do we know that assessments built by the educators in our schools measure what is intended? For the most part, tests are designed to measure information acquisition. There are schools that have engaged in ongoing professional development for their teachers to learn how to develop more robust assessments demanding the use of information, the drawing of connections among ideas, justification of a position and the production of original work that draws on the information acquired. These tasks cannot be accomplished without the knowledge. By default a good assessment demonstrates that the knowledge taught was acquired.
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Education DIVE
The idea of growth vs. fixed mindsets is one that has gained a lot of traction in modern debates around how to meet the needs of students. Most herald the idea of the growth mindset as being the proper way to frame educational conversations. The idea is simple: Basic abilities in everyone can be developed through dedication and hard work. The growth mindset chips away at the idea of learning as finite or intelligence as naturally-given or not.
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By: Danielle Manley and Hailey Golden
 Every educator has a different approach to disciplining and motivating students, but not all approaches are successful for every student. For students with learning disabilities, like ADHD, Asperger's syndrome and dyslexia, discipline and motivation can be even trickier. You need to be prepared to handle these students while also maintaining a learning environment. The first step toward helping the students succeed is getting them to be OK with their disability.
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The Washington Post
Opportunity gaps drive achievement gaps. Yet U.S. policies proceed as if achievement can be boosted without corresponding investments in opportunities. These gaps arise from inequities inside of schools as well as outside of schools. In fact, outside-school factors appear to account for most of the measured variance in achievement among different groups. Yet U.S. policies proceed as if these gaps mainly arise from schools and should be closed by school-centric policies.
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THE Journal
Now that more control over education decisions is being handed back to the states with passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, they need to be "thoughtful" in how they design their education systems to make sure every student's growth is taken into account, said a new report by an education organization that advocates for personalized learning.
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District Administration Magazine
In the name of saving money, K-12 administrators are also discovering that reconfiguring grade levels offers unique education advantages. School leaders nationwide are exploring innovative group-level groupings and thinking beyond the typical K-5 elementary school, grades 6 through 8 middle school and grades 9 through 12 high school model to figure out how to continue to deliver appropriate education with fewer funds.
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Education DIVE
More than 60 years after the groundbreaking decision in Brown v. Board of Education, America's school systems are still charged as being separate and unequal. Teachers, administrators and policymakers are all grappling with the chilling statistics on racial achievement gaps, and asking the same question: How do we fix this? For decades, the generally prescribed solution to racial inequality at the primary education level has been the implementation of racial integration policies. Studies indicate, however, that by most standards, U.S. public schools are more segregated now than they were in the 1970s.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Adam Bellow, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "We live and teach in truly amazing times. Just think about the device that you carry around in your pocket or the things that you're able to do on the internet. Technology continues to make meaningful, collaborative, and engaging interactive classroom experiences possible with minimal effort. With so much talk of change in education, we sometimes lose focus on the smaller-scale changes that we can implement immediately for enhanced impact with our students."
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Creating a culture of safe, healthy play transforms children's social, emotional, and physical health. And that has a big impact on the classroom. Kids who get healthy play at recess come back to class ready to learn. In one study, teachers reclaimed 21 hours of class time each through a healthy play culture at recess. Healthy play means fewer conflicts spilling over into the classroom and smoother transitions back to class. But the impact for schools goes beyond productive class time.
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U.S. News & World Report
Recently, in Flint, Michigan, Democratic presidential candidates were asked what they'd do to turn around financially flailing and academically failing school systems, like that of nearby Detroit. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders blamed congressional inaction and front-runner Hillary Clinton said she would create a "SWAT team" at the Department of Education and reinstate a federal program to assist states and districts with funding to repair and modernize schools. The list of big-city school districts around the country that are broke or well on their way to being in the red is growing. But the real reasons behind their dire financial straits weren't mentioned by either candidate.
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The Hechinger Report
This is the kind of research every kid trying to convince his parents to let him play video games dreams about: "Time spent playing video games may have positive effects on young children." That was the headline on a March 2016 press release from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, promoting a new study co-authored by three members of its faculty.
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EdTech Magazine
Google Chromebooks may be the hottest selling K–12 devices in the U.S., but Microsoft is still at the top of the operating system food chain globally, according to a new sales report from Futuresource Consulting. According to Futuresource's report, Microsoft increased its market share in the education sector from 47 percent to 55 percent between 2014 and 2015. The leap is significant because it shows Microsoft bouncing back from a dip in 2013.
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Disability Scoop
Federal education officials are taking new steps to address the academic needs of students with disabilities who have significant behavior challenges. The U.S. Department of Education says that many kids with behavior or learning issues are intellectually capable, but are underperforming academically simply because they are not being provided appropriate interventions and supports. Now the agency is looking to do something about it, with plans to fund a new National Center for Students with Disabilities Who Require Intensive Intervention.
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Education Week
Should advocates, educators and others writing rules on tests and spending under the Every Student Succeeds Act hew very closely to the new law and preserve as much flexibility as possible for states — or use the opportunity of "negotiated rulemaking" to help advance an equity agenda? It's tough to tell where the regulations will end up, but that general philosophical question has undergirded at least some of the discussion during the negotiated rulemaking sessions.
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By: Ronnie Richard
 From Common Core to common sense, many educators across the country have echoed a common refrain in recent years: Get the federal government out of our classrooms. They finally got their wish with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act. While much of the federal framework will remain the same, oversight of school accountability will shift from the federal to the state level. We're now beginning to see a glimpse of what ESSA means for some school districts.
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Education World
New recommendations drafted by Michigan's State Board of Education is pushing for the state's schools to allow for students to choose their "gender, name, pronouns and bathrooms" regardless of "parental or doctoral input," said The Daily Caller. "Spearheaded by board president John C. Austin and signed by state superintendent Brian Whiston, the guidance informs Michigan public schools that only the students themselves — i.e. not their parents or doctors — can determine what their individual gender identities are," the article said.
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NAESP
Be sure to vote in the 2016 NAESP Vice President election before polls close March 29. Eligible members (active, institutional active and emeritus members) can vote for NAESP's vice president. You will need to log in to the NAESP website to access the ballot. If you have never logged in to www.naesp.org, take a moment to do it in advance of the election notification. The NAESP Board election is conducted electronically, although paper ballots are available. Click here for more information on candidates and how to vote.
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NAESP
Research has shown that the most impactful staff development to foster building the instructional capacity of educators is job embedded with frequent opportunities to revisit and adapt skills. In part two of this webinar series, the goal is to have principals share the steps and processes they have taken to ensure that teachers have optimal opportunities to hone their craft.
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