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NPR
Every day in this country students come to school without a way to pay for lunch. Right now it's up to the school to decide what happens next. Since new legislation out of New Mexico on so-called lunch shaming made headlines, we've heard a lot about how schools react. Some provide kids an alternative lunch, like a cold cheese sandwich. Other schools sometimes will provide hot lunch, but require students do chores, have their hand stamped or wear a wristband showing they're behind in payment. And, some schools will deny students lunch all together.
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Education Week
The Every Student Succeeds Act sought to give states flexibility to put their own stamp on accountability systems, including setting their own goals for student achievement and moving beyond reading and math test scores in rating student and school performance. So how far along are states in taking advantage of all that new running room? The details are just starting to emerge from the handful of plans submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, which reveal a varied policy picture across a wide range of accountability categories.
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THE Journal
A majority of parents will say their children favor math and science subjects the most in school, while they themselves tend to think reading and writing skills are more important for future success. That analysis comes from Science Everywhere, an initiative supported by the Overdeck Family Foundation and the Simons Foundation to encourage outside-school math and science learning. With help from digital media and survey research company Morning Consult, the organizations commissioned a survey earlier this year of more than 2,500 Americans with school-age children to determine how they view math and science compared to other academic subjects.
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Discovery Education via District Administration Magazine
Teaching kids fundamental money management concepts and how to earn, save, spend and donate should start early. That’s why Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, has partnered with the Jackson Charitable Foundation, which provides educational programming to increase the financial knowledge of Americans, to offer elementary school classrooms nationwide a dynamic financial literacy program.
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District Administration Magazine
When beginning kindergarten, Latino students are three months behind in math literacy when compared to their white peers, says a 2017 study conducted by Child Trends, a nonprofit research organization that works to improve the lives children and families. The study, "Making Math Count More for Young Latino Children," cites poverty in Latino households as a cause, and says these young students will fall farther behind if the problem isn't addressed in the classroom.
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Edutopia (commentary)
As educators, we understand conceptually how failure can help students learn, but do we really believe it? I think if we did, we might build for failure — in a significant way — into the scope and sequence of our curriculum. (It's true that state testing season is upon us and the word failure is hardly permissible right now but let's talk about it anyway.) What would our classrooms perhaps look like if we were to allow for more failure, even embrace it?
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THE Journal
Start with a small cohort of teachers; provide professional learning opportunities to all teachers; include school leaders in the training. Those are some of the more obvious best practices tied to professional development for teachers learning how to teach to the Next Generation Science Standards, shared in a new guide published by NGSS. But what about these practices? Running a "teaching learning collaborative" or lesson study, in which a group of teachers create a learning sequence, study an extant lesson and modify the lesson. Or the development of conceptual flows to lay out coverage of broad science concepts all the way down to creation of detailed storylines for units and lessons. These are two of the more popular best practices identified in the same guide.
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The Atlantic
Jane Charlton never intended to skip high school. "I was planning on just skipping ninth grade," says the renowned astrophysicist, who spent her summers taking calculus classes at Carnegie Mellon University. "But when the school year was about to start, the teachers went on strike and my math professor said, 'Why don't you just start here?'" Three years later, Charlton received her bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics. She headed for the University of Chicago, where she earned her master's at 19, and her Ph.D. at 22. By the time Charlton had her first child, in her late 20s, she was a tenured professor at Pennsylvania State University, where she maps the universe and charts the history of evolving galaxies.
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Edutopia
Mobile greenhouses, art studios and makerspaces are traveling to underserved kids across the nation — salvaging vulnerable school programs and leveling the playing field to access.
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Education Next
On March 22, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the most significant special-education case in 35 years. In Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, the justices unanimously ruled that, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, public school students with disabilities are entitled to greater benefits than some lower courts had determined. Endrew F., an autistic child in Douglas County, Colorado, showed severe and increasing behavioral problems from preschool through 4th grade. Dissatisfied with his lack of progress under his Individualized Education Program, his parents withdrew him from public school in 2010 and enrolled him in a private school specializing in serving autistic students. He made significant gains in the new school and is now a 17-year-old high-school student learning vocational skills.
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By: Savanna Flakes (commentary)
 An important skill that helps our students with disabilities become successful independent and expert learners is the ability of self-regulation. Want your students to take ownership over their learning? By utilizing specific strategies, teachers can support students in becoming more independent learners. Our goal in education is to create citizens who are self-regulated learners. Here are my top three strategies in teaching independence to help students succeed.
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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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The Washington Post
The number of minority teachers more than doubled in the United States over a 25-year period but still represent less than 20 percent of the country's elementary and secondary school teaching force, a new statistical analysis of data shows. And black teachers, while seeing an increase in the number of teachers, saw a decline in the percentage they make up of the overall teaching force. From 1987 to 1988 and 2011 to 2012, researchers found that the teaching force became much larger, by 46 percent; more diverse, though minority teachers remain underrepresented; and less experienced. There were, however, large differences among different types of schools and academic subjects.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 In 2007, a group of students distributed pink shirts in solidarity with a boy who was bullied for wearing one to school in Canada. This event — which served as the original impetus for special days dedicated to raising awareness and uniting against bullying that take place around the world — led to the United Nations official designating of May 4 as Anti-Bullying Day. Today, let's take a look at where the issue lies one decade later.
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Connected Principals (commentary)
George Couros, a contributor for Connected Principals blog, writes: "You can have a shiny new vision and mission statement, school or district goals, and a myriad of things that say what your district does. But none of this happens without people. If you do not value the people that you serve, and more importantly, if they do not feel valued, all of those things were a waste of money, time, and resources."
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TIME
Middle and high school should start no earlier than 8:30 a.m., says the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in a new position statement. Doctors say that starting school earlier in the morning prevents children and teenagers from getting a full night's sleep, which can affect their health, safety and academic performance. The argument for a later school day isn't new, but this is the first time the AASM — a group of scientists and health experts with more than 10,000 members — has taken an official position on the subject. For years, studies have suggested that later school starts can benefit adolescents and teens, who scientists say are wired to stay up late and sleep in.
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EdSource
School districts that fail to address the anxieties experienced by undocumented students as a result of federal immigration policies of the Trump administration may be violating their students' constitutional rights to a meaningful education, said Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Founded in 1968, the Los Angeles-based MALDEF is a leading civil rights organization advocating on behalf of Latinos in California and nationally. Saenz was referring to the widespread anxieties experienced by children who are either themselves undocumented or have one or both parents who are, and fear that they or their parents will be deported.
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| | FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
Education Week
Did you miss games of chicken over keeping the federal government open? Your happy days might be here again. On April 28, the measure Congress approved late last year to keep the government funded for fiscal 2017 — known in Beltway lingo as a "continuing resolution" — will expire. Without it, major parts of the government will cease to operate. President Donald Trump's administration has sent lawmakers a spending proposal that would cover the rest of fiscal 2017, which ends Sept. 30, including major cuts to Title II grants for teaching programs.
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The Associated Press via ABC News
Justice Neil Gorsuch's first week on the Supreme Court bench features an important case about the separation of church and state that has its roots on a Midwestern church playground. The outcome could make it easier to use state money to pay for private, religious schooling in many states.
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eSchool News
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx wants the federal Department of Education to disappear. She wants Washington to stop passing down rules and regulations schools have to follow. As the new chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee, the seven-term North Carolina congresswoman has a powerful forum to talk about all that. Trouble is, she probably doesn't have the votes to do much of what she wants. It takes 60 to get most legislation through the Senate, where Republicans control only 52 seats, and she's up against a powerful education lobby that resists sweeping change in federal policy.
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Brookings Institute
Is it possible to summarize a school's performance, fairly and accurately, with a single rating? Schools are complex organizations that serve a variety of purposes, and measuring their progress toward these goals is notoriously tricky. Can we really say that this school is a "B+" and that school down the street is a "D"? Should we? Education policymakers across the country are grappling with these questions as states develop their plans to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act. Eleven states have submitted plans to the Department of Education already, providing a first glimpse at how states are handling the thorny issue of summative performance measures.
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NAESP
It is increasingly common for children with serious illness to attend school in regular classes. Advances in treatment and a trend toward brief hospitalizations mean that even children with life-limiting conditions can be active in school until very close to the time of their death.
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NAESP
In this webinar, best-selling Author Richard Gerver and Crayola Director of Education Cheri Sterman will host a talk on the topics raised in Gerver's book, "Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today: Education — Our Children — Their Future." Richard's experience in transforming schools provides practical advice for early career principals. An inspiring storyteller, Richard will discuss how he shifted the paradigms around change in the schools he led. He believes that change moves schools in the right direction when implemented within a culture where creative ideas are heard, acted upon, and celebrated. This webinar takes place Monday, May 1, 4-5 p.m. EST. Attendees are eligible to earn a CE certificate.
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