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District Administration Magazine
Schools still feel the effects of post-recession budget cuts eight years after the economic crisis reached its zenith. A study by the Center on Budget and Policy Studies showed that 25 states in 2014 were spending less per student than before the recession, adjusted for inflation. Budget cuts in seven states exceeded 10 percent, according to the study by the group that analyzes state and national government programs. In 31 states, local government spending per student fell between 2008 and 2014.
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KBIA
Every morning Pat Wilson walks down the hall from her office in the Julia Goldstein Early Childhood Education Center through the gym and into a part of the building not typically associated with a school nurse: the kitchen. There, she checks a list—posted on the side of the stainless steel refrigerator — of all the students in the school with a food allergy. "It's constantly being updated," Wilson says.
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EdSource
More rigorous standards in math and English language arts have contributed to improved academic achievement for students in many states including in California, a new report asserts. The analysis looked at improvements in test scores from the 2014-2015 school year to the 2015-2016 school year. In 2014-2015, most states took Common Core-aligned tests for the first time. "More than 40 states have maintained high standards, and now that we have multiple years of results with high quality assessments, we can see that higher standards are leading to improved outcomes," said Jim Cowen, executive director of the nonprofit Collaborative for Student Success, which released its report.
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School Library Journal
When it comes to integrating kids with special needs, classroom teachers have a full plate. Instructing this population, particularly students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, can be a challenge because the work takes place alongside regular lessons and activities during an already busy day. Librarians, of course, can relate: many face similar issues, but often with less time allotted to accomplish their goals. Seeing kids just once or twice a week for a single period makes it hard to break through and engage their students with special needs.
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MindShift
Many educators are aware of Carol Dweck's research on growth mindset. The Stanford psychologist has found that the way students think about and approach challenge makes a big impact on their learning. Students who believe that they were born with a certain amount of intelligence that cannot be changed — a condition Dweck calls a fixed mindset — are often afraid to seek out challenging tasks and are resigned to one's perceived set of abilities. Students who see intelligence as something that can grow and change with effort — known as a growth mindset — tend to persist at difficult tasks, trying new strategies and ultimately performing better in school. Many schools have begun to focus on building growth mindsets in students because of this research.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Why do some English learners struggle with reading and listening? How can we support them in navigating these receptive language skills? Let's take a closer look at these two basic language skills. Having strong receptive skills provides a solid base for achieving success in the productive skills. Verbal fluency and writing ability are more tangible for learners and teachers alike. On the other hand, reading and listening involve a great deal of internal mental processing by the student.
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Education DIVE
An analysis by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development found teachers rate girls' math skills lower than boys who have similar achievement levels and behavior.
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NPR
Every day at Weiner Elementary School starts with a dance party, usually to "Best Day of My Life" by American Authors — and that's before the 7:50 a.m. bell even rings. Then comes the morning assembly, where all 121 students and the staff gather for 20 minutes in the cafeteria of the school in Weiner, Ark. They sing songs and learn about an artist, a musician and an international city of the week. They celebrate birthdays. A lucky student is crowned Student of the Day. And Pam Hogue makes it her goal to be an educator instead of a principal. That assembly — and the many other things this school does to create a sense of community and happiness — is part of what experts call school climate.
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Education World
The Annual Partner Survey from 100Kin10, the national network committed to training and retaining 100,000 excellent K-12 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) teachers by 2021 has revealed some insight into how the leading K-12 STEM education organizations are training effective teachers to keep up with the increasingly prioritized movement. In total, the survey analyzed 242 programs offered by 157 unique partner organizations of 100Kin10 to find that incorporating new standards and emphasizing pedagogical content knowledge are the two top priorities for both preparing new teachers and developing existing ones (75.5 percent and 70.5 percent, respectively).
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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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American Academy of Pediatrics via Science Daily
In findings that will not surprise the parents of any school-aged child, new research finds that the more time children spend using digital devices, the less likely they are to finish their homework. Children who spent two to four hours a day using digital devices outside of schoolwork had 23 percent lower odds of always or usually finishing their homework, compared to children who spent less than two hours consuming digital media.
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The Atlantic
A time-honored nugget of the political stump speech is the anecdote about the teacher who brings breakfast for a hungry student in need, or maybe the one who purchases supplies out-of-pocket for an underfunded classroom. These are sweet stories that build on teachers' well-deserved reputations for sharing with students, but teachers' work also thrives on the amount of behind-the-scenes sharing they do with one another. Whether it is a homework assignment, a rubric or a classroom game, teachers build a lot of their curricula on shared materials, authored and tested by experienced peers.
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THE Journal
While the latest focus on education transformation seems to be teacher professional development and evaluation systems, a new study has suggested that the teaching environment is just as important. A research team from Brown University and Harvard examined the impact on teacher turnover and student achievement of changes in school climate.
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The Washington Post
Approximately 1.8 million U.S. children were home-schooled in 2012, more than double the number that were home-schooled in 1999, when the federal government began gathering data on national home-schooling trends, according to estimates. The estimated number of home-schooled children represents 3.4 percent of the U.S. student population between the ages of 5 and 17. The increase was fastest between 1999 and 2007, then slowed between 2007 and 2012, according to the estimates from the National Center for Education Statistics. The figures show that most home-schoolers were white and living above the poverty line in 2012.
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U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Homelessness in the United States is a complex and persistent problem. For families with young children experiencing homelessness, the challenges are highlighted based on their unique needs and characteristics. Challenges begin early and without intervention can continue throughout the lives of children experiencing homelessness. Hunger, homelessness, violence and parental attention all affect childhood well-being.
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Education Week
The Council of Chief State School Officers has proposed its own plan for ensuring that federal funds supplement and do not supplant state and local education spending, a plan that differs in a few key respects from the U.S. Department of Education's own proposed rules. Under the proposal that CCSSO is submitting as a formal public comment to the Education Department, districts would not have to pick between four options for distributing state and local school aid, as the department's proposed regulations would require. In fact, there's no menu of possible methodologies in the state chiefs' proposal.
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NECN
Boston Public Schools is set to release a report detailing ideas to save the school district millions of dollars, and school closings are still on the table. The ideas generated in the report were developed by an advisory committee looking at long-term planning in the district. That committee, along with Superintendent Tommy Chang, will release what they're calling "10 Big Ideas to Unlock Resources in Boston Public Schools", then will meet in a panel form.
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The Washington Post
The D.C. Department of Health plans to change the way nurses are assigned to city schools, using a stricter formula to decide which schools get part-time nurses and which get full-time nurses as part of a push for more holistic child health care that focuses on preventive and community-based care. The nursing portion of the plan has been met with an intense backlash from parents, who fear the changes could result in their children receiving inadequate medical attention at schools that would lose access to a full-time nurse. Dozens of people — including parents, principals, charter school directors, nurses and other school representatives — testified at a six-hour D.C. Council hearing to attack the plan, which is expected to take effect in January.
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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
Common Core math has left many parents and educators across the country asking, "Why is math different from when I was a kid?" Mathematics hasn't really changed; one plus one still equals two. What has changed is the way we teach math and how we want our students to understand it.
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