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U.S. News & World Report
There is no consensus among the public about the role of the public school system in the U.S., according to a new poll that also shows widespread discontent with some of the education policies that have been a major focus of the reform movement. "This really calls into question in many ways whether the agenda that has been set over the last 16 years, in particular over the last two administrations, is really what parents want to see," said Johsua Starr, CEO of PDK, the education organization that's released the poll annually for the last 48 years.
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By:Brian Stack (commentary)
 As schools across America embark upon a new school year this fall, hundreds of thousands of students will be playing the often difficult and complex role of "the new kid." They will have to quickly make new friends and adapt to a new school and a new learning environment. Although schools see a higher-than-normal number of new students at the start of the school year, the reality is that new students can move into the system at any point during the year.
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Education Week
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Next Generation Science Standards, and many plan to officially start testing students on those standards in the spring of 2018. But the tests are, for the most part, still in early development phases. And the question on many educators' minds is: What will the final tests look like?
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Education DIVE
Illinois was the first state to require social-emotional learning in all of its schools, setting statewide standards and benchmarks for districts to incorporate at all grade levels. Even now, in a state that went the entire 2015-2016 fiscal year without a budget and in a city toeing the line of financial disaster, Chicago Public Schools remains committed to the value of social-emotional learning. And with the help of Amanda Moreno, an assistant professor at the Erikson Institute, 16 schools are taking that commitment a step farther. Moreno is the principal investigator for a multi-year mindfulness-based intervention in Chicago Public Schools, where 16 schools are implementing mindfulness techniques and 14 schools are serving as a control group.
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SunSentinel
A child raised in a low-income household hears 1,537 fewer words per hour than one raised in a higher-income home, according to the landmark 1995 Hart and Risley study. Conducted at the University of Kansas, the research revealed that the average child on welfare heard just 616 words per hour vs. 1,251 words per hour in the average working-class family and 2,153 words per hour in a home with parents with professional backgrounds. They also found that higher-income families provided children with far more words of praise than low-income families. Newer research from Stanford University, in 2013, found that an intellectual processing gap appears in kids as early as 18 months and revealed that 2-year-old children of lower-income families may already be six months behind in language development.
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District Administrator Magazine
As one of today's most promising models for instruction, blended learning is growing rapidly across the country. But what really is blended learning, and how can educators use it to improve student outcomes? In a blended learning environment, students learn through a combination of online instruction — with some element of student control over time, place, path and pace — and instruction in a classroom.
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U.S. News & World Report
You know it's a new school year when health warnings about carrying bulging backpacks begin to appear. But what if even the slight weight of an empty backpack sends ripples of agony through your child's body? Or if your son or daughter can't bear to wear new school clothes because it's too painful? For kids living with chronic pain, ordinary parts of the school day that most kids take for granted — going to class, sitting at a desk, concentrating on assignments, walking to the cafeteria — become much harder. When kids deal with conditions such as juvenile arthritis, migraine, fibromyalgia or certain pain syndromes, managing well at school is a major accomplishment. Here's how parents can help kids succeed.
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eSchool News
In "Securing the Connected Classroom: Technology Planning to Keep Students Safe," authors Abbie H. Brown, Ph.D., and Tim D. Green, Ph.D., outline a process that education leaders can follow to develop a secure environment for learning with technology. According to Brown and Green, "the book guides educators, administrators and IT staff through a step-by-step process for creating a district-wide blueprint for keeping students safe while maintaining an appropriate level of security."
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EdTech Magazine
An estimated 50.4 million K-12 students will attend school this fall, reports the National Center for Education Statistics. As students return to classes, district IT professionals need to make sure networks are ready to handle them — and their devices. Marie Bjerede, the principal for mobile learning and infrastructure at the Consortium for School Networking, says that schools that haven't instituted any new policies, such as a one-to-one computing initiative, shouldn't need to do much with their network.
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MindShift
Like many schools, Gibson Elementary in St. Louis had big problems with attendance — many students were missing nearly a month of school a year. Melody Gunn, who was the principal at Gibson last year, set out to visit homes and figure out why kids weren't showing up. Her biggest discovery? They didn't have clean uniforms to wear to school. Many families, she found, didn't have washing machines in the home, and kids were embarrassed to show up at school wearing dirty clothes. The result was that often, they didn't come.
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The Atlantic
This is one of the wealthiest states in the union. But thousands of children here attend schools that are among the worst in the country. While students in higher-income towns such as Greenwich and Darien have easy access to guidance counselors, school psychologists, personal laptops, and up-to-date textbooks, those in high-poverty areas like Bridgeport and New Britain don't. Such districts tend to have more students in need of extra help, and yet they have fewer guidance counselors, tutors, and psychologists, lower-paid teachers, more dilapidated facilities and bigger class sizes than wealthier districts, according to an ongoing lawsuit. Greenwich spends $6,000 more per pupil per year than Bridgeport does, according to the State Department of Education.
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Edutopia
Whether it's email, messaging apps, an active website or virtual office hours, technology helps you keep parents in the loop about what's happening in their child's classroom.
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eSchool News
Imagine that changing education to a blended paradigm is like renovating a large and much loved home that is more than 100 years old and contains lots of wonderful memories. Would our expectations change? The change from traditional teaching to blended learning is the biggest change in education for over one hundred years; it changes a core aspect of the way teachers teach. Make no mistake; this is not tinkering at the edges of education. If education was a house it would be a fundamental refit, from the foundations to the roof.
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K-12 TechDecisions
It's that time of year again. The days are getting shorter, the nights are cooling off, and in essence, the summer is drawing to an end. That means it's back to school for millions of students and teachers, and there are plenty of new technologies on the market that can help schools and universities overcome various learning and teaching challenges this upcoming school year. At the beginning of the summer, we reported on 21 InfoComm Solutions that are Bound to Impact Education. Since InfoComm, companies such as Listen Technologies, InFocus and Extron have released even more education products.
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Education World
According to a new study from the Afterschool Alliance, 56 percent of children in high poverty communities would be enrolled in an afterschool program if one was available. "The study finds strong support for afterschool programs among parents in CCPs [communities in concentrated poverty] whose children are enrolled in them. It is based on responses collected from 30,709 U.S. households, including in-depth interviews with more than 13,000 parents and guardians. CCPs are neighborhoods, or groupings of neighborhoods, where a high concentration of families live below the federal poverty line, defined by the government as family income below $24,300 for a family of four," said the Afterschool Alliance in a statement.
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Edutopia
Here's an old-school interactive tool: a spiral-bound notebook set up as a simple, functional system for students to create, write and explore ideas all in the same place.
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| | FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
U.S. Department of Education
As students begin the new school year, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are calling on states and districts to help enroll students in health care coverage during school registration processes and ensure students have access to the health coverage they need.
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Education Week
The vast majority of states don't give their schools much of an incentive to bolster achievement for the most advanced students, according to a report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a think tank in Washington. In fact, just four states have accountability systems that the think tank deemed "praiseworthy" when it comes to focusing on these students. Those states include: Arkansas, Ohio, Oregon and South Carolina. Part of the problem: Only a small handful of states — Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho and Oregon — base half of a school's rating on improving performance for all students.
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The New York Times
The children entering kindergarten and first grade this school year were not yet born when the Great Recession ended in mid-2009. Incoming high school seniors were not yet in middle school. But in many states and localities, the wounds to school budgets from recession-era cutbacks are still large, leaving schools with more students and less money. Recent data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows that as of last year, 25 states were still spending less per student than before the recession, adjusted for inflation, and cuts in seven states exceeded 10 percent.
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District Administrator Magazine
Research suggests a diverse teaching force can improve students' learning experiences. That's the goal of a three-year, $16 million program called NYC Men Teach, designed to add 1,000 black, Latino and Asian men to the city's teaching rosters by 2018. Male students of color account for 43 percent of New York City public school enrollment, but just 6,600 of the city's 76,000 teachers are men of color.
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NAESP
Parent engagement is key to a successful school, but it's often hard to accomplish in a significant way. It can be especially difficult for those working in schools with a high population of English language learners, where the differences in both language and culture present unique challenges.
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NAESP
What defines your NAESP membership experience? We want to hear from you. In 100 words or less, tell us how NAESP has influenced the way you lead students and manage staff, or helped you better connect with families and your community. Tell us how NAESP has helped to make your school so great!
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