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Edutopia (commentary)
Dr. Richard Curwin, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "'Sticks and stones will break my bones / But words will really hurt me.' I was playing with my 3-year-old granddaughter and called her a silly goose. She freaked out — crying, yelling and telling me she hated me. It took a long time to cool her down and explain that being a silly goose was not a bad thing. This anecdote raises important questions about the nature of hate speech. Who decides what is hate speech, the speaker or the recipient? What's the difference between teasing, sarcasm, insulting and hate speech?"
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Healthline
Bullying in U.S. schools has been on a decades-long decline, suggests new research.
The analysis stems from an ongoing survey conducted at schools in Maryland from 2005 to 2014.
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The Atlantic
It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school. The teacher, Barbara Curtin, discusses the differences between mean, mode and median while her students at the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School sit in clusters of three or four at tables around the room. A second teacher, Lorin Hill, is there to help. All fairly standard, but for one dramatic difference — the mix of students.
Curtin's class includes both ninth- and 10th-graders.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
Teachers look for warning signs, classmates keep an eye on their friends and counselors have meetings with parents, but all the efforts still are not enough at times.
"I think the natural reaction for people is to consider, 'Is there more we could have done, and are there things we should have seen?'" San Diego County Office of Education Interim Director Bob Mueller said about the shooting early May 6 morning at Torrey Pines High School.
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eSchool News
Textbooks and blackboards have become a thing of the past in K-12 schools as educators collaborate with information technology teams to shape a full digital core curriculum as part of their educational strategy for 2017 and beyond. In a 2016 survey conducted by the Consortium for School Networking, 90 percent of IT administrators at K-12 schools expect that curricula will be at least 50 percent digital over the next three years.
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Education Dive
Parents, educators and school districts should be wary of prizing "efficiency" in public education above all, as it may causes schools to rush to find the easiest and cheapest means to fulfill student performance metrics, American Enterprise Institute Fellow Andy Smarick writes for U.S. News and World Report.
Smarick cites the development of No Child Left Behind, when a national reliance on reading and math scores led schools to find ways to boost those scores, including the adoption of technology and online-education processes that could conceivably do so at a lower cost.
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Education Week Teacher
Think of a school year as a human life. It has a birth, messy and hopeful and new. It has a death, too. That last day will soon come when the individual personalities who make up our class will never be together as a class again. In between, a lot happens: new abilities acquired in fits and starts, a midlife crisis or two when it all feels hard and hopeless and some peace near the end with all that was accomplished and all that wasn't.
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EdTech Magazine
Whether it is a new learning management system or a fleet of Chromebooks, providing new technology tools to teachers can be a difficult task for any school district. The cost, not just in terms of the financial commitment to the district, but also in terms of change management and training, can prove to be a massive undertaking.
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Scrap the sticky notes and shred the spreadsheets. Create fair, first-class classes with Class Composer. Where does it hurt? When it comes to assigning elementary school students to their classes, it’s the knees, the back and the head. Why?
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By Pamela Hill
 What do students with learning disabilities need the most from their special educator? While many individualized skills and interventions are needed, there is one skill all students need from their special educator: the ability to problem-solve. Problem-solving is a key skill for every area of learning. The student with learning disabilities needs his teacher to conscientiously and methodically teach him how to navigate this skill successfully.
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The Associated Press via The Washington Times
Dozens of universities and other organizations that help prepare low-income students for college are staring at a five-year funding gap after the U.S. Department of Education rejected their grant applications over clerical errors. The groups range from major universities to community organizations. Some have said they may have to shut down without funding from the program called Upward Bound. The grants can be worth six figures a year but only come open every five years.
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WBUR-FM
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are proponents of school choice. That includes publicly funded, privately managed charter schools and voucher programs, which give families money to pay tuition at private schools.
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KQED-FM via Here & Now
For some parents, school safety means tough policies banning weapons, drugs and violence on campus. But for many immigrant families, school safety also means a campus free of federal immigration authorities.
That's why schools in Sacramento and elsewhere in the state have declared themselves "safe havens." Ana Tintocalis from Here & Now contributor KQED reports.
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Panama City News Herald
The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature narrowly approved a sweeping education bill that would steer more money to privately run charter schools, require recess in elementary schools and tinker with the state's oft-criticized standardized testing system.
The legislation, which was a top priority for House Speaker Richard Corcoran, barely edged out of the Florida Senate on a 20-18 vote where some Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the measure.
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Providence Journal
Rep. Marcia Ranglin-Vassell, a Providence teacher, has introduced legislation aimed at wiping out so-called "lunch shaming" as well as other stigmas associated with qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch.
The legislation (2017-H 6150) would require all public elementary and secondary schools provide free lunch to all students, no questions asked.
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NAESP
Educators often struggle to develop meaningful relationships with parents. It's not uncommon to see them only at the beginning of the year, at parent-teacher conferences and at school performances and assemblies. But those are not the only times that our students are doing something good.
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NAESP
Picture the typical interview scenario: You have netted several candidates to be interviewed from several dozen shortlisted applications. In the school's conference room is a cohort of selected interview team members waiting for the first candidate to enter. You are all equally hopeful that the candidate has done her research on your school and is eager to join this team.
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