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Southern California Public Radio
In the debate over what constitutes "kindergarten readiness," some educators believe it's important that preschoolers learn basic letters and letter sounds. The U.S. Department of Education's Early Childhood Longitudinal Study uses this approach, for example, to gauge how ready children are for kindergarten. It looks at skills like letter recognition and the ability to sound out words to test early literacy.
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The Atlantic
A new study shows that campuses with larger populations of students of color are more likely to use harsh surveillance techniques.
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By Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
CNN's Heather Long recently raised an important question for American schools: Why is financial education not considered as important a subject as sex education? When sex education was introduced and made compulsory, there was apprehension as to whether this is a good subject for discussion among impressionable minds. Yet surveys have shown that this investment has paid off with teen pregnancies declining dramatically in the last two decades.
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Education Week
Unlike older students, kindergartners often start the school year as cute little blank slates to their teachers.
In many cases, those teachers have no more to go on when assigning children to classes than the limited information they were able to glean from kindergarten-orientation sessions. That lack of deeper knowledge about their new pupils can lead to classroom imbalances in terms of readiness and social skills that are hard to fix as the school year progresses.
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The Huffington Post
Experts often cite third grade as a decisive year for students and schools. In fact, there is common folklore that asserts that public officials will forecast prison construction based on a state's third-grade literacy rates. An article in The Atlantic called this phenomenon "An Urban Myth That Should Be True." The article goes on to say, "U.S. prison planners don't use local third-grade reading scores to predict future inmate populations. But maybe they should."
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eSchool News
Learning cultures have no doubt shifted for students in most K-12 public schools. With new one-to-one initiatives, blended learning, online courses, project-based learning, one could argue that students are now more prepared than ever before for the 21st century. But what about teachers?
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THE Journal
While more than half of K–12 teachers say they use education technology in the classroom on a daily basis, with nine in 10 saying they do so at least weekly, only 15 percent of those teachers would give themselves an "A" in education technology skills, according to a recent University of Phoenix College of Education survey.
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eSchool News
As the school year gets underway across the nation, many schools and districts are launching new technology initiatives and programs designed to improve teaching and learning. Educators love to share their successes, learn from the success of other schools and districts, and they also love to share lessons they learned along their journey.
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The Washington Post
The American school reform movement has been aggressively focused on teacher quality for four decades. Just ask Hillary Clinton. She made an early name for herself by promoting a basic skills test for Arkansas teachers in 1983. Along with higher academic standards, school choice and more learning time, better training and more careful selection of teachers have been key reform demands. The policy magazine Governing said in 2013 that "teacher quality affects student learning more than any other school-based variable."
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eSchool News
One of the most studied and analyzed generations, millennials are now becoming parents. According to a recent research report, 43 percent of children age 0-17 had millennial parents in 2014, and this figure is expected to exceed 50 percent in 2016. And when it comes to their children's education, millennials are bringing new notions and expectations, likely influenced by their strong familiarity with digital technologies.
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| FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
U.S. Department of Education
The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice released today new tools to improve school climates, ensure safety, and support student achievement in our nation's schools.
To the extent a local decision is made to use school resource officers (SROs) in community schools, these resources will help state and local education and law enforcement agencies responsibly incorporate SROs in the learning environment. Additionally, the Departments have highlighted tools available for law enforcement agencies that also apply to campus law enforcement agencies.
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Education Week
The stakes for K-12 policy in this year's state-level elections couldn't be clearer: Whoever voters pick in the legislative and gubernatorial races will have significant new leverage in shaping states' education agendas in the years ahead.
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Education Week
With the goal of protecting students' civil rights and limiting unnecessarily harsh school discipline, the Obama administration is calling on schools to ensure that the role of on-site police is limited and clearly defined. The U.S. departments of Education and Justice released new resources related to the hiring and training of school resource officers, which come amid national discussions about school discipline and the role of law-enforcement officers following several high-profile student arrests.
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The New York Times
Event planners. Choreographers. Designated hand-holders. Fonts of information. Lice-checkers in chief.
These are among the many roles parent coordinators play in New York City’s public schools, and as the city's 1.1 million schoolchildren return to class, their busy season is about to begin.
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WJLA
Stafford County Public School in Virginia unveiled a new "My Stop" application for the 2016-17 school year that allows parents to view GPS locations to their child's bus stop. With the technology, parents are able to see where a student's bus is, when it will arrive, and if it is going to be late. Student identification numbers serve as both the username and the password.
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The Washington Post
Spring break could be on the chopping block in some Maryland school systems. So might teacher work days or certain holidays.
School officials around the state say they are facing tough choices as they aim to comply with Gov. Larry Hogan's recent mandate that classes must begin after Labor Day and end by June 15, a summer-extending measure that he says will be good for the economy, schools and families.
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NAESP
Accomplished principals will share the latest research and analysis on evidence-based strategies to support the role of principals according to ESSA evidence tiers, discuss how ESSA provides states and districts with ample opportunities to provide on-going professional support for principals, and share key strategies for sustaining high quality professional learning communities for principals and other school leaders. This webinar takes place Tuesday, Sept. 13, 4-5 p.m. ET.
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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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