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District Administration Magazine
The assessment that prospective principals must take to obtain an administrative license in 18 states may be a barrier to non-whites and urban educators, says a 2017 study. Researchers focused on the use of the School Leaders Licensure Assessment in Tennessee and found that the exam did not provide an effective performance screen. A team led by Jason A. Grissom, an associate professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, analyzed data from about 7,600 individuals who took the Tennessee assessment between 2003 and 2013.
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Michigan State University via Science Daily
As teacher resignation letters increasingly go public — and viral — new research indicates teachers are not leaving solely due to low pay and retirement, but also because of what they see as a broken education system.
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District Administration Magazine
In southern California's Brawley Union High School District, students newly arrived from Mexico study math and science using a university-developed curriculum written in Spanish. In the Omaha Public Schools, bilingual picture books created by district staff supplement the education of students who speak the Karen language of Burma. Despite research showing that native-language instruction improves the achievement of English learners, such localized efforts seem more exception than rule.
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Edutopia
Children with special needs are guaranteed a "free, appropriate public education" under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. When Congress enacted IDEA in 1975, the goal was to address the "perception that... handicapped children were either totally excluded from schools or sitting idly in classrooms waiting until they were old enough to drop out." The law offers funding to those states that agree to comply with two requirements. First, eligible children shall receive a FAPE either via specially designed instruction (or, more commonly, special education) or via related services. Second, the FAPE is provided through an individualized education program specifically designed to meet a child's unique needs.
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NPR
At one high school in San Francisco, students speak 18 different languages, and while students can't totally communicate with one another, they're working hard to learn English and other cultures.
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The Hechinger Report
The class of 2028 will, no doubt, have a maze of postsecondary options to help them unlock their dreams and ambitions. Yet while the connection between education and aspiration is intuitive to many, it's not necessarily so for children — particularly for those who come from low-income households or families with no college education. Students from low-income families enroll in college (immediately after high school) at a rate 30 percentage points lower than that for students from high-income families — and that gap has persisted since 1990. And it's not for lack of aspirations. The Educational Policy Improvement Center notes that 93 percent of middle-school students aspire to attend college, and yet only 44 percent of those students actually enroll.
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MindShift
Teachers intuitively know that giving feedback on student work is an important part of the learning process. Research on different learning strategies conducted by John Hattie bears out what many know instinctively to be true — in order to improve at something humans need to know what they're doing well and how they can improve. But giving effective feedback in the classroom can be trickier than it seems. It's more of an art than a simple practice and requires the teacher to be disciplined and thoughtful about what is worthy of feedback, as well as when to give it.
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CCSA
CCSA has released a best practices toolkit based on a qualitative study of 10 of the highest performing California charter schools and their successful approaches to meeting the needs of students with disabilities. This toolkit details nine key elements of successful special education programs and details how a school can implement each piece with links to supportive resources.
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Education World
New approaches to bullying intervention often focus less frequently today on the two students directly involved in the behavior ― the bully and victim ― and increasingly on the new approaches for bystanders and their key role in preventing incidents and reporting them. Getting witnesses to help stop bullies may mean training them in less traditional ways, experts say, involving social and emotional learning and even use of new technology that can make it easier and safer for them to act.
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Education DIVE
A number of education leaders from across the country convened in Washington, D.C., for The Atlantic's third annual education summit. The discussion ranged from school choice and teacher quality to equity and the implementation of technology and civics in the Trump era as district leaders, heads of schools, researchers and policymakers all gathered to share ideas and challenges.
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EdTech Magazine
Creativity and teamwork help to ensure that every child has a level playing field in learning.
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Benchmark Advance and Adelante build K-6 literary and content-area knowledge through close reading and collaborative conversations. Foundational skills, writing to sources, and use of text evidence are seamlessly integrated, as are resources for ELs that amplify meaning without simplifying language. Fully equitable Spanish edition also available. FREE sampler.
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U.S. News & World Report (commentary)
What millennials want in a workplace has already become the stuff of clichés. Beanbag chairs, beer on tap and a smorgasbord of free lunch options. However, many of their requests don't seem all that shallow or unreasonable. They crave flexible hours, and plenty of feedback from their bosses. In fact, they want it all, and they want to feel creatively stimulated while they do it. It's a brave new world for today's 20-something workers.
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The New York Times
For many parents with disabled children in public school systems, the lure of the private school voucher is strong. Vouchers for special needs students have been endorsed by the Trump administration, and they are often heavily promoted by state education departments and by private schools, which rely on them for tuition dollars. So for families that feel as if they are sinking amid academic struggles and behavioral meltdowns, they may seem like a life raft. And often they are.
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The Conversation (commentary)
Karen Eppley, an associate professor of curriculum and instruction at Pennsylvania State University, writes: "The recent appointment of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education has brought rural schools into the national conversation in ways never seen before. At her confirmation hearing, DeVos said that guns might have a place in schools in order to protect from 'potential grizzlies' in places like Wapiti, Wyoming. While the comments about grizzly bears and guns were well-publicized, there was considerably less talk about how DeVos' pro-charter school agenda could play out in rural communities like Wapiti. As a rural education researcher and a lifelong rural resident, I can attest that rural communities and schools are distinct places of teaching and learning."
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Education Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has announced a slate of hires for key positions in the department. Many of these folks have been working in the Education Department since the beginning of the Trump administration, but now they will have more formal, official roles. None of these folks have received formal nominations from the White House, and will not need Senate confirmation to step into their roles. But some will be serving in an "acting" capacity in positions that they can be nominated formally for later.
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eSchool News
It's a busy — and tumultuous — time in Washington. With daily developments in the U.S. Education Department, it's often difficult to keep pace with new education policy recommendations, staff updates and news.
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Education Week
Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, students in Delaware will be held accountable for social studies and science. Massachusetts and Vermont are also incorporating science into their systems, and Illinois is hoping to add it down the line. Both Connecticut and Vermont also want to add physical education into their accountability systems.
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The Washington Post
If Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has his way, the Badger State will become the first to stop requiring students in public schools to spend a minimum number of hours in class. A proposal in Walker's new budget plan calls for ending the state's current minimum requirements — 437 hours for kindergarten, 1,050 hours for elementary schools and 1,137 hours for secondary schools — and allowing school districts to do what they want in terms of seat hours for students. Districts and schools would then be judged on their state report cards, which are produced annually by the Department of Public Instruction, based largely on standardized test scores.
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The Coloradoan
Students in Lesher Middle School's science classes don't always dissect cow eyeballs, frogs or fetal pigs to learn about anatomy. Some days it's chicken wings. Those wings don't offer any secret scientific advantage for students, but they are cheaper and their bones and muscles get the job done when money is tight and students need hands-on learning experiences. Sometimes cheaper is what you settle for in a state where lawmakers take millions of dollars from public schools every year to balance the budget, resulting in Colorado ranking among the bottom quarter in state education funding.
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NAESP
The NAESP Election Audit Board met to certify the ballot count as received from the electronic voting provider for the 2017 NAESP Election for Vice President. You can read the results of the election here. NAESP appreciates the commitment of all the candidates for office and congratulate those who will serve on the NAESP Board of Directors, effective Aug. 1.
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NAESP
Principals, teachers, and other staff are responsible for the well-being of a student while they are at school. But when it comes to health, no one is better equipped than a skilled, caring school nurse. Children's Advil®, Children's Robitussin® and Children's Dimetapp® are honoring school nurses for their dedication to caring for our sick children. You can read more about the nominees for the award at www.americasgreatestschoolnurse.com, and make sure to cast your vote by April 16.
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