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Brookings
Data has always been an inherent part of the educational process — a child's age, correlated with her grade level, tracked to specific reading or math skills that align with that grade, measured by grades and tests which rank her according to her peers. Today this data is ever more critical. Education professionals seek understanding from what the data reflect on the teacher's role and influence, evaluating student outcomes across classrooms. Parents seek similar measures on individual K-12 schools and districts, and desperately seek insight into the value of education at individual colleges and universities to justify the cost or debt incurred.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
If you're a principal, you likely spend time working with parents and other family members of your students. Too often, much of that time is negative, coming after a major discipline problem or crisis. On the positive side, another critical part of the principal's job is leading a coordinated school-wide effort to interact with families in ways that support students, families, the school and the larger community. Every student in your building has a family and comes from a community, both of which influence the student. And teachers and administrators interact with families and the community every day — sometimes in direct ways, sometimes indirectly.
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District Administration Magazine
Adding project-based learning and mentoring opportunities to STEM programs may better ensure that female students do not get left behind. In the United States, women hold fewer than 25 percent of jobs in STEM fields, despite accounting for 47 percent of the workforce, according to the nonprofit Million Women Mentors.
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By: Brian Stack
 As a former high school math teacher, I often ask myself why math has such a bad reputation in our society. For years I have found people either really enjoyed math — likely because they "got it" in school — or they just plain hated it. Why is it that way? Our schools have great math teachers who love what they do and are committed to helping students improve their math skills. The problem, I believe, lies with the approach that most math teachers take today.
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Reuters Health
Even though some older refugee children may do as well in school as their native-born peers, younger immigrants can still face unique learning challenges in elementary school, a research review suggests. Researchers analyzed data from 34 studies of learning problems in 29 different groups of refugee children and found their risk of difficulties could be influenced by parental misunderstandings about a foreign education system, teacher stereotyping and bullying or discrimination.
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MindShift
Marna Wolak's fifth grade students at Sanchez Elementary in San Francisco are gathered on the rug for a "number talk." Wolak is getting her students thinking about fractions, noticing patterns and explaining their thinking to one another as a group before sending them off to work on a new topic — dividing whole numbers by fractions. The problem for today deals with origami stars. Students are told they have six pieces of paper, but it only takes one fifth of a piece to make one origami star. How many stars can they make with six pieces of paper?
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eSchool News
For library media specialists, finding high-quality digital resources that align with Common Core and state standards, and that support classroom instruction, is an ongoing challenge. No longer just the keepers of the physical books and card catalogues, these media specialists are being called upon to organize and share content that can then be used to create relevant and personalized learning experiences.
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The Hechinger Report
It was 62 years ago that the United States Supreme Court issued its landmark decision that separate schools for whites and blacks were "inherently unequal," thus setting in motion more than 800 school desegregation court orders around the country. A Berkeley economist, Rucker C. Johnson, has been tracking thousands of the children of that era into adulthood, as they had children of their own. And he's concluded that integration has been a powerfully effective tool for raising the educational levels and living standards for at least two generations of black families.
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EdTech Magazine
Virtual and blended learning schools continue to crop up across the country, despite poor performance, a new report states. Released by the National Education Policy Center, the Virtual Schools Report 2016: Directory and Performance Review sheds light on full-time virtual schools that offer instruction solely over the internet, as well as blended schools that mix face-to-face and virtual instruction.
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Scholastic Administration Magazine (commentary)
Don W. Brown, a contributor for Scholastic Administrator Magazine, writes: "Everyone in schools is talking about technology, 1:1 programs and student learning. The problem is that often school district planners think adopting technology is just like purchasing a textbook: First review the offerings and rate them, then purchase one and roll it out. But to effect a whole-school transformation, this process is not enough. By 'transformation' I mean bringing in 21st-century technology to give students 21st-century learning opportunities. This would ultimately be in the form of blended learning models, but adopting a blended learning model is a huge shift in both equipment and methodology."
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| | FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
Education Week
The top two congressional Democrats on public school issues in Congress are telling the U.S. Department of Education to create robust and clear accountability regulations for the Every Student Succeeds Act that ensure states and districts are looking out for the interests of students from low-income backgrounds and other historically disadvantaged students.
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Disability Scoop
An influential U.S. senator is urging his colleagues to work toward plugging a special education funding shortfall of more than $17 billion. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is calling for the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. "For far too long, federal funding for special educational services has fallen short by tens of billions of dollars," Schumer said.
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The Dallas Morning News
Brooklyn Petersen loves to read. Dyslexia used to get in the way. Reading out loud in class used to be difficult. "I felt like, 'What is happening?' Because all the other kids were so good at reading," said Brooklyn, a fourth-grader at Bowie Elementary in the Richardson Independent School District. According to the Texas Education Agency, more than 140,000 students were identified with dyslexia this school year. That means Texas school districts and charter schools have reported a nearly 30 percent increase in students with dyslexia since 2013, when a state law began requiring them to report the figures.
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Education Week
A former Detroit public schools administrator allegedly bilked the district out of $1.275 million by submitting fraudulent invoices for tutoring services. Carolyn Starkey Darden, 69, took the money between 2005 and 2012, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Michigan. As the district's director of grant development, she was in charge of establishing supplemental educational services for eligible students.
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NAESP
The Obama administration recently released new Guidance on Title IX that will impact schools related to protections for transgender students and allowing use of facilities that match a particular individual's chosen identity. Given the safety and social-emotional well-being of every student that must be at the forefront of discussions in your learning community on this issue, NAESP would like to draw your attention to an accompanying document, Examples of Emerging Policies and Practices to Support Transgender Students. This document includes sections on terminology, privacy and emerging practices to support transgender students.
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NAESP
Every principal remembers where they were when they first heard of the tragic events in Newtown, Connecticut. Many would come to learn of the incredible sacrifice that Dawn Hochsprung made to save the lives of children she served as principal of Sandy Hook elementary. In 2014, the NAESP Board of Directors established the Dawn Hochsprung Tree of Life Memorial to honor her life and service, as well as the lives and service of others who have made extraordinary sacrifices as school leaders.
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