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Fox News
Several schools across the nation have decided to close on Election Day over fears of possible violence in the hallways stemming from the fallout from the heated rhetoric that consumed the campaign trail. The fear is the ugliness of the election season could escalate into confrontations and even violence in the school hallways, endangering students.
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Association for Psychological Science via Science Daily
Over time, students' personal values become more similar to those of their school principal, according to new research. The findings indicate that principals' values are linked with aspects of school climate which are, in turn, linked with students' own values.
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PBS Newshour
Gender gaps in math achievement and teacher expectations that boys are stronger at math than girls start to form by kindergarten, according to a study released by the American Educational Research Association. The study also found that teachers consistently underrated girls' math skills, even when boys and girls behaved and performed in similar ways academically. While the gender gap starts early among high-achieving math students, it spreads quickly to all students throughout elementary school. And both high- and low-achieving schools are impacted, according to the report.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Shelby Scoffield, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Whenever I would introduce a new novel to my students, I always got the same reaction: Students moaned and groaned about the storyline, expressed their lack of interest in the author's writing style, and proclaimed their everlasting boredom with the class as a whole. In order to avoid student complaints, I decided to implement book clubs in my classroom — students now have the opportunity to work in groups and choose what book they as a group want to read for a given unit."
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MindShift
Craig Brock teaches high school science in Amarillo, Texas, where his freshman biology students are currently learning about the parts of a cell. But since many of them are refugee children who have only recently arrived in the U.S. and speak little or no English, Brock often has to get creative. Usually that means creating PowerPoint presentations full of pictures and "just kind of pulling from here and there," he said — the Internet, a third grade textbook or a preschool homeschool curriculum from Sam's Club, for example.
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Education Week
Students in the fourth and eighth grades are showing more mastery of science, but high school seniors' scores on the assessment known as "the nation's report card" stayed flat from 2009. The results from the 2015 National Assessment of Education Progress also found that while large gaps remain between black and Hispanic students and their white peers in science, those gaps are narrowing, as is the gender gap in eighth grade.
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District Administration Magazine
A leading gifted-and-talented expert once believed the number of students who performed above grade level was between 5 and 15 percent. But a new study shows the number is much higher, says the expert, James Plucker, a National Association for Gifted Children board member. The analysis, conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, revealed that between 25 and 45 percent of students in three states performed above grade level in English and math.
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[FreshGrade Education Inc.]
Encourage your students to guide their own learning and begin to master their destinies. In this free eBook from FreshGrade, you’ll learn how to reclaim assessment, create purposeful assessment, and implement innovative approaches with real examples of innovation from schools across the United States. 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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The Washington Post
More than 1 in 4 of the nation's full-time teachers are considered chronically absent from school, according to federal data, missing the equivalent of more than two weeks of classes each academic year in what some districts say has become an educational crisis. The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights estimated this summer that 27 percent of the nation's teachers are out of school for more than 10 days of regular classes — some missing far more than 10 days — based on self-reported numbers from the nation's school districts. But some school systems, especially those in poor, rural areas and in some major cities, saw chronic absenteeism among teachers rise above 75 percent in 2014, the last year for which data is available.
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Foster's Daily Democrat
Less than 20 percent of school districts in the U.S. meet the recommended student-to-school counselor ratio of 250:1 or lower, according to new research from the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. The median ratio is 411:1. The researchers found that access to school counselors varies considerably across states. Median ratios are more than 1,000:1 in Arizona and California, but under 250:1 in North Carolina, North Dakota, Vermont, New Hampshire and Montana. Although rural districts are the most likely to lack any school counselors, the median caseload is lower and more than 25 percent of the districts meet the American School Counselor Association recommendations. In cities, only 4.2 percent of districts meet the recommended ratio.
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EdTech Magazine
Cloud computing may be on the rise in K–12 schools, but a recent survey from CDW shows K–12 IT workers still have many concerns. First and foremost: the security risks associated with operating in cloud environments. According to CDW's K-12 Cloud Possibilities Infographic, 46 percent of K–12 IT professionals say security concerns still represent major barriers to cloud computing.
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Michigan State University via Science Daily
Many children are still learning to control their behavior as they enter kindergarten and may need educational support to develop that critical skill, indicates one of the most conclusive studies to date of early childhood self-regulation.
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Education World
A new study from New York University and University of Illinois researchers published in AERA Open used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to delve further into the trend of males outperforming females in math. The research indicates that negative teacher perceptions towards girls throughout their K-12 education is a major factor in the production of the math gender gap between girls and boys. This phenomenon, the researchers speculate, could be a major reason why women go on to be dramatically underrepresented in STEM careers later on
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eSchool News
Seventy-two percent of E-rate applicants participating in a recent survey said wi-fi is critical to fulfilling their organization's mission. Twenty years after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 created E-rate funding, significant measures are underway to update the program that has become vital to schools and libraries across the United States. The E-rate Trends Report from Funds For Learning aims to help policymakers, administrators and other stakeholders as they shape the future of the program.
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Education Week
There's no hard-and-fast evidence that Race to the Top, the Obama administration's $4 billion, signature K-12 initiative had a long-term impact on student achievement or state policy, according to a report by the Institute for Education Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education's research arm. "Differences in student achievement between [Race to the Top] states and other states may be due to other factors and not to the program said Lisa Dragoset, a senior researcher at Mathematica, which performed the evaluation for IES.
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The Associated Press via KTVZ
Each year, thousands of Oregon parents hug their children goodbye and send them into the wilderness for up to a week to learn about their state's natural wonders. Outdoor School was groundbreaking when it started more than a half-century ago. More than 1 million children have gone through this rite of passage so far. But now just half of Oregon's 11- and 12-year-olds take part because of funding cuts in local school districts.
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NPR
Nearly two decades after California banned bilingual education, voters next month will have a chance to restore it. Proposition 58 would officially end the era of English-only teaching and re-introduce instruction in English and a second language as an option. About 1.4 million English language learners, or ELLs, make up roughly 23 percent of California's public school students. Most are Spanish-speakers.
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CBS News
During the morning rush, Robert W. Coleman Elementary School is as bustling as any other school. But after the buses arrive and the kids pour in, the usual classroom chatter comes to a complete stop. The students here learn to seek their inner peace. Every day begins with what the school calls a "mindful moment" — a 15-minute blend of yoga and meditation. It's not what you'd expect from a school in West Baltimore, but it's the dream of two brothers from right here in the neighborhood, reports CBS News correspondent Tony Dokoupil.
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Education Week
Some state support for local schools has not recovered from the deep cuts adopted during the Great Recession, according to a new study on education funding. State funding for school districts accounts for an average of 47 percent of school budgets nationally. An analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington-based, left-leaning nonprofit, found that 23 states are providing less "formula funding" on a per-student basis than they were before budget cuts in 2008.
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NAESP
NAESP will be hosting a webinar intended to gather suggestions about the design of the 2018 NAESP 10-Year Study from practicing principals. Participants will be asked to review the 2008 version of the 10 year study prior to the webinar and then join other webinar participants in a discussion about suggested changes to the survey. Your input will help NAESP craft the best survey possible to gather important information from principals across the United States. The webinar takes place Monday, Nov. 14, 4-5 p.m. EST.
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NAESP
Writing for Principal is a great way to help other principals while giving you fresh insights into your own professional development. NAESP is currently seeking articles for the March/April issue, with the theme "Technology for All." The issue will provide best practices for social media and technology use, with an eye toward principals as innovators and new instructional practices. Articles can focus on digital badging, professional learning networks, and addressing the technology divide in rural schools and schools with high needs. The deadline for copy is Friday, Nov. 4. For more details, visit www.naesp.org/writing.
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