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Education Week
They train separately. One is located in the main office ... and the other has their own classroom. Some of them are told they went to the "dark side," while others spend their days in the "trenches." Why do we use language like that? Sure, some leaders left the classroom to make more money and take on more responsibility, but most did it because they felt like they could help more students, work harder with a larger group of parents and bring more teachers together to focus on learning.
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eSchool News (commentary)
The city of Syracuse's public educational system, and its long-term economic health, are nearing a tipping point. According to a recent study by the Century Foundation, Syracuse has the highest rate of extreme poverty concentrated among blacks and Hispanics of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas. Like many other urban school systems, Syracuse City School District has faced a number of challenges: Retaining teachers past their third year of teaching, too many competing initiatives that were unaligned to larger goals, and — most pressing — low academic performance among disadvantaged students.
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Education Week
Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don't require teaching students to write in cursive. Some states, such as Tennessee and California, have added cursive to the standards. Louisiana appears to have gone the farthest, mandating that students get instruction in cursive every year from the 3rd through 12th grades.
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District Administration Magazine
A focus on teaching social-emotional skills — persistence, resilience, communication and other non-cognitive abilities — has led to an obvious jump in reading and math scores in Nevada's Washoe County School District. Washoe's students are now "less likely to be suspended, more likely to attend school, and they graduate at a much higher rate than students who didn't have those competencies," says Laura Davidson, the district's director of research and evaluation. And those improvements hold true for students from families of diverse economic status.
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NPR
Middle school is tough. Bodies change. Hormones rage. Algebra becomes a reality. But there are things schools can do to make life easier for students — like this big study we wrote about showing that K-8 schools may be better for kids than traditional middle schools. But aside from re-configuring an entire school system, are there other ways to make the sixth-grade experience better? To answer that question, I called up Dru Tomlin, a director at the Association for Middle Level Education — an organization that's been researching best practices for middle grade students for decades.
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Education World
The University of Michigan, Brown University and Stanford University have received $5 million in funding to begin a five-year study on the effectiveness of Common Core on learning. The analysis has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation and will, according to a release from Stanford's Graduate School of Education, "look at how governmental and non-governmental stakeholders are responding to the Common Core and how this is affecting classroom instruction and social disparities in academic achievement in school systems across the country." The analysis will focus on getting to the bottom of whether or not national standards do, in fact, improve student achievement as intended.
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K-12 TechDecisions
As central classroom displays have evolved from chalkboards to dry erase boards to interactive whiteboards, whiteboarding has grown more interactive and technologically sophisticated over time. More than a decade after their first appearance in classrooms, it's clear that IWBs and panels can engage students — but cost, the need for training, and concurrent use by many students can be barriers that prevent schools and teachers from even getting started with these potentially effective instructional technologies.
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[FreshGrade Education Inc.]
In this eBook, leaders in education share their best practices and experiences with portfolios and assessment. You'll learn how to save time for educators, empower students to own their learning, implement innovative assessment practices, enhance student outcomes, and actively engage parents in the learning journey. EdTech RoundUp described FreshGrade as uniquely combining student-led portfolios with flexible, custom assessment and parent engagement in one. FreshGrade is used by teachers, parents, and students in all 50 states and in more than 70 countries around the world.
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By: Danielle Manley (commentary)
 Margot Machol Bisnow's new book, "Raising an Entrepreneur: 10 Rules for Nurturing Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, and Change Makers," offers insight on parenting techniques used by the mothers of more than 50 of today's most successful innovators. While Bisnow wrote this book for parents, there are many concepts that could be beneficial to educators. I sat down with Bisnow to talk about her "rules" and how they can apply to educators.
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eSchool News
Part of a school leader's job is to create conditions in which teachers work collaboratively to achieve excellence in their instructional practices and in student learning. But with near-constant demands, how can school leaders assess teachers and work with each one individually to ensure instructional excellence? The answer lies in administrative support and teacher mindset.
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Education World
A report from the Independent Budget Office of New York City looks into why chronic absenteeism is such a problem for the roughly 82,000 students who comprise the city's homeless population and what changes can be made for improvement. The report, which focuses on the city's largest school district, makes a good read for other district administrators looking to make changes to help improve the quality of education for homeless students.
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The Washington Post
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, suffer from unwanted and intrusive thoughts that they can't seem to get out of their heads, called obsessions, which often compel them to perform ritualistic behaviors and routines, or compulsions, over and over to try to ease their anxiety. Children and teens may not realize they have it — and parents and educators often misunderstand or misdiagnose the condition.
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EdTech Magazine
Virtual reality has become a hot trend in K-12 education. Tech startups and giants around the world are developing virtual reality apps and gear that soon will emerge as the standard in classrooms around the world — beyond just goggles to use with smartphones. Here are a few of the more exciting ones.
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eSchool News
Tom Daccord, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "As I look back on the summer, one of the things that strikes me is how often a workshop I've given has followed a 'technology training' at a school. In other words, faculty had already received tech training on the particular platform, device or tool I was asked to address. Sometimes this training had been administered in-house, but often it had been delivered by a technology company who came in and explained how their product works."
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U.S. Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education published regulations to help ensure that new teachers are ready to succeed in the classroom and that every student is taught by a great educator. The regulations build on progress happening across the country and take into account the extensive and valuable feedback shared with the Department since draft rules were first released. The regulations aim to bring transparency to the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs, provide programs with ongoing feedback to help them improve continuously, and respond to educators across the country who do not feel ready to enter the classroom after graduation.
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Education Week
Nearly 20 years after voting to restrict bilingual education in a state with more than 1 million schoolchildren who don't speak English as their first language, California voters appear poised to reverse that ban. Next month, voters will decide the fate of a statewide ballot question that would bring an end to the restrictions of Proposition 227 and close out California's official era of English-only instruction.
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The Associated Press
U.S. education officials announced a $480,000 grant to help Flint Community Schools as the public district grapples with problems associated with the city's lead-contaminated drinking water crisis. The money will support the hiring of attendance specialists, counselors and psychologists. Education Secretary John King Jr. said Flint's challenges, including its water crisis, are "emblematic of a broader crisis, which is an unwillingness to invest in the common good," The Flint Journal reported.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The nation's third largest school district is on the brink of its second major strike in four years. This time around, though, it's about money, not teacher accountability. Teachers in the Chicago Public Schools are threatening to picket if union negotiators and the city can't agree on a new contract. The Chicago Teachers Union has demanded the city continue to pay its pensions, as well as allocate $200 million more for school resources. But Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Board of Education have countered by offering to increase teachers' base wages over four years instead.
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NAESP
Join NAESP and social media-savvy principals from across the country for four weekly Twitter events this October. To celebrate National Principals Month, we're hosting Twitter chats each Tuesday evening from 8-8:45 p.m. EDT at #ThankAPrincipal. This is an excellent way to share resources and learn from your colleagues on the topics that matter, including supporting teachers use of technology, creating digital portfolios for all students, and integrating coding into the general education curriculum.
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NAESP
Recognizing the importance of arts education is in keeping with NAESP's commitment to fostering creativity in schools. This is the sixth year that NAESP and Crayola have teamed up to develop a special supplement to Principal, as part of a mission to support arts-infused education. In it you'll find profiles of schools across the country awarded arts education grants, and learn how they invested in their students' capacity for creativity.
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