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MiddleWeb
Middle school leadership is a demanding job, one where you're expected to stay up to date on innovative practices, legal and policy debates, and social or economic trends impacting schools. Too often, the demands of the job mean that little time is available to devote to your own professional learning.
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Education Week
More than 6.5 million students in 2013-2014 attended a school where at least half of teachers missed 10 days of school or more, according to the most recent estimate from the U.S. Department of Education. Now, a new analysis by the Education Week Research Center adds some context to those numbers. Looking at the same data from the federal civil rights office, it finds that nationwide, slightly more than 1 in 4 teachers missed 10 days or more of school in 2013-2014.
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District Administration Magazine
English language learners remain the least represented group in gifted programs — meaning districts do not sufficiently tap the talents of the growing number of immigrant students entering U.S. schools. "It's a shame because these are kids who have enormous potential not only to be among the next generation of scientists and entrepreneurs, but to be upwardly mobile in our society," says Chester Finn, a former U.S. assistant secretary of education and author of the book Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students (Harvard Education Press, 2015).
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NPR
This summer, millions of excited 4-, 5- and 6-year-olds will be getting ready for their first real year of school. But some of them may be in for a wake-up call when that first bell rings. If you have young kids in school, or talk with teachers of young children, you've likely heard the refrain — that something's changed in the early grades. Schools seem to be expecting more of their youngest students academically, while giving them less time to spend in self-directed and creative play. A big new study provides the first national, empirical data to back up the anecdotes.
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ADDitude Magazine
Does your child with attention deficit disorder need high-tech homework help? There are many gadgets, software and other high-tech tools designed to help students with ADHD or learning disabilities compensate for their learning and executive function deficits and build on their strengths. Given the wide range of products now available, it's easy to become overwhelmed. Focus on your child's two or three most pressing school problems, and look for easy-to-use products that address these needs. Buy them well before school starts to give him time to get up to speed. If it's slow going, or if he's getting frustrated, consider hiring a tech-savvy tutor.
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THE Journal
With the help of a virtual reality game their professor created, students at Cornell University have gathered evidence that interacting with others in a game-playing atmosphere may help them learn more. Using a language-learning game, "Crystalize," created by Cornell Assistant Professor of Computer Science Erik Andersen, a group of students conducted a study with two different groups in which players, using an avatar, take a virtual tour of Japan.
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By: Bambi Majumdar
 When election time rolls around, candidates spar over a wide range of issues. However, it is rather strange to see the absence of heated discussion about public education in this year's presidential race. Furthermore, there are two distinct trends we notice about the education world now: a lack of reform efforts and a tendency for administration-bashing whenever the opportunity lands itself. But how and when will reforms happen if our future leaders shy away from discussing them?
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District Administration Magazine
The concept of "going virtual" has been gaining traction in the IT world for years, beginning in data centers with server virtualization. Today, school district CIOs who have taken the next step — the virtualization of desktop computers — see a new range of benefits, including increased flexibility for users, cost savings, stronger security, and more frequent updates of hardware and software.
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HealthDay News
Behavior problems are more likely to hold boys back in school than girls, a new study shows. "When I compared 4- and 5-year-old boys and girls who had the same levels of behavior problems — including difficulty sustaining attention, regulating emotions, delaying gratification, and forming positive relationships with teachers and peers — I found that boys were less likely to learn and more likely to be held back in school," said study author Jayanti Owens. She is a professor at Brown University in Rhode Island.
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Education Week
Teachers who are most confident about educational technology tend to work in low-poverty and suburban schools, bringing their students a wide range of experiences and potential benefits that other young people may lack, concludes a survey by the Education Week Research Center. For example: These teachers are far more likely than their less-confident counterparts to report daily use of digital curricula, learning management systems and parent communication tools.
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Medscape
This research letter reviews recent literature on academic demands in young children. The authors hypothesized that increasing academic demands on children might contribute to the rise in the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. This study evaluated published literature from 1970 onward to identify studies that documented the time children spend on both academic and leisure activities. They began by looking at the time children spent studying per week, dividing children into age groups of 3-5 years old, 6-8 years old, and 9-12 years old, as well as all children combined.
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Medical News Today
A new study finds that behavioral problems in early childhood have a larger negative effect on high school and college completion rates for boys than girls, which partially explains the substantial gender gap in educational attainment that currently exists in the United States. "When I compared 4- and 5-year-old boys and girls who had the same levels of behavior problems — including difficulty sustaining attention, regulating emotions, delaying gratification, and forming positive relationships with teachers and peers — I found that boys were less likely to learn and more likely to be held back in school," said sociologist Jayanti Owens, a professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and author of the study.
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By: Pierre LaRocco
 School counselors must have many tough conversations with students. However, if we do some ground work in creating a caring relationship with students, then those conversations become much easier to have. What is a relationship of caring? I consider it a relationship of mutual respect where the student knows the counselor has the student's best interest in mind even when holding the student accountable for his/her actions. How do we build such relationships?
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U.S. Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released guidance to states, school districts and child welfare agencies on the new provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act for supporting children in foster care. The guidance aims to assist state and local partners in understanding and implementing the new law, and to inform state and local collaboration between educational and child welfare agencies across the nation for the well-being of children in foster care. The guidance is the first the Department of Education is releasing regarding provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act, in the coming weeks and months to help states, districts and schools as they implement the new law.
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NPR
"My goal for this special session is to keep the schools open," said Sam Brownback, Republican governor of Kansas, talking about a high-stakes gathering today in Topeka. He called lawmakers back from their vacations for a special session after the state's Supreme Court doubled-down on its demand that they make school funding more equitable across districts or risk a calamitous funding freeze. "We cannot allow our children to be caught in a constitutional struggle between branches of government," Brownback said. But that's exactly what's happened.
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NAESP
Elementary and middle-level principals from around the nation will volunteer their time to build a playground at Princeton Elementary School during the National Association of Elementary School Principals' eighth annual Community Service Day.
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NAESP
Learn by doing — it's a well-worn mantra, and sometimes it works. But after you've learned to do something, how do you learn to do it better? For teachers, who still work mostly in isolation, the risk of hitting a plateau — of doing, but not growing, or of getting stuck in a bad habit of practice — is high. But "learning by doing" can work in a more focused way when the "doing" is guided by a successful peer and structured around a particular task. A new working paper just out from the National Bureau of Economic Research has demonstrated that for teachers (and perhaps workers in many other sectors), there is a tangible value in learning from colleagues.
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