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Education Week
The number of annual complaints to the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights more than doubled since the start of President Barack Obama's administration, increasing from 6,364 in fiscal 2009 to 16,720 in fiscal 2016. That's according to a report by the Education Department highlighting the work of the civil rights office during the Obama administration. It also notes the ongoing civil rights issues the department sees in schools, for the office ranging from teacher and staffing inequities in schools, to chronic absenteeism and racial disparities in school discipline policies.
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Connected Principal (commentary)
Amta Claus, a contributor for Connected Principal blog, writes: "It's that time of year. Where everyone has their eyes on the holiday break. Where you may tempted to hit snooze just one more time. When maybe what you can gift a class of 30 or a staff of 60 just can't seem to be found in a store. I have some suggestions that won't break the bank, but that still may not be the easiest to give."
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By: Sheilamary Koch
 In a recent Multibriefs Exclusive article, former math teacher Brian Stack wrote about the urgent need to revamp the approach to math instruction to meet both the needs of our future economy and the large number of students who find it a struggle. As a mother of two school-age girls who claim to hate math, I worry about their automatic shunning of a subject with such far-reaching implications. Can math education be improved? Is there a way to make it exciting and pertinent for younger students?
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PsychCentral
Emerging research suggests little physical activity may leave 6 to 8 year-old boys behind on their reading skills. Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland, in collaboration with the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Cambridge, discovered sedentary behavior was linked to less than optimal academic performance in the first three school years. The findings have been recently published in the Journal of Science and Medicine and Sport.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Jay Meadows, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "It has always seemed to me that if the appropriate groundwork were responsibly laid, if the students were appropriately primed and invested in a lesson, the learning would come easy. It is with that in mind that I'd like to present the following hacks for increasing student engagement."
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[FreshGrade Education Inc.]
In this free eBook, elementary principal, Matt Renwick shares specific strategies and tools to build independent learners. You'll learn how to create a more connected classroom, give better feedback, and set authentic tasks for a real audience. 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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PsychCentral
As our world becomes more technical, preparing students for success often means improving their spatial skills. Paradoxically, new research suggests the training should begin with the way children use words. Hilary Miller, a University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate student studying child development, explains that it's not how many words a kid knows, it's how they choose them.
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MindShift
Catherine Good has experienced stereotype threat herself, although she didn’t know it at the time. She started her academic career in pure math, expecting to get a Ph.D. But somewhere along the way she started to feel like it just wasn’t for her, even though she was doing well in all her classes. Thinking that she'd just chosen the wrong application for her love of math, Good switched to math education, where she first encountered the idea of stereotype threat from a guest psychology speaker.
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THE Journal
A team of education organizations has created a tool intended to help educators evaluate the lessons they use in the classroom to see how well they meet the criteria of the Next Generation Science Standards. The "NGSS Lesson Screener" was the result of work by Achieve, which focuses on college and career readiness; the National Science Teachers Association; and members of the NGSS Network, a group of states and partners that share ideas and practices for implementing the learning standards.
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University of California via Science Daily
Lunches served in the National School Lunch Program have higher nutritional quality than lunches brought from home, according to the largest comparison study conducted to date. The study involved nearly 4,000 elementary school students in Southern California.
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MindShift
We live in a world of screens. And in this digital age — with so many devices and distraction — it's one of the things parents worry about most: How much time should their kids spend staring at their phones and computers? What's the right balance between privacy and self-discovery? Research continues to provide some answers on how parents are navigating this world. Just today, for example, there's a new study out that looks at nearly 2,000 parents — who have kids ages 8 to 18. Among the most surprising findings: People with children spend, on average, 9 hours and 22 minutes per day in front of a screen: texting, tweeting, Googling, checking the weather.
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Futurity
Self-regulation skills help children manage their thoughts and feelings, control impulses, and solve problems. Now, a new federal report recommends that schools include them in the daily curriculum. "Self-regulation affects well-being across the lifespan, from mental health and emotional well-being to academic achievement, physical health, and socioeconomic success," says Desiree Murray, associate director of research at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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The Washington Post
The youngest children in Montgomery County's public schools could soon be allowed to bring cellphones and other electronic devices to campus under newly proposed rules. Students would not be able to use the devices during the school day in elementary schools unless a teacher permits them as part of classroom instruction, but students could use phones and tablets after dismissal or on school buses if the rules pass.
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| | FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
The Associated Press
Many public schools are still hostile environments for LGBT students, an international human rights organization concluded in a report. The lengthy report from Human Rights Watch was based on interviews primarily with current and former high school students, parents, administrators and teachers in Alabama, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas and Utah. It documented several challenges lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender students face, including in-person and online bullying, limits on LGBT student groups, exclusion of some topics from curricula and discrimination by classmates and school personnel.
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Brookings
Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election is widely viewed as a signal of change for the federal government's role in society. Following on the heels of the recent enactment of the new Every Student Succeeds Act in December of 2015, which rewrote the rules of the federal government's role in the nation's schools, the future of federal education policy is fluid and uncertain.
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The Atlantic
The Flatlands Family Residence is a shelter for homeless families that sits near the end of a subway line in Brooklyn next to a truck depot and across the street from an industrial air-conditioning business. Drawings made by the children who live there are taped on the walls of a hallway that extends past a metal detector manned by security guards. Those children include Diana Duncan's four kids, who sleep on bunk beds and often do their homework at a small table in the kitchen.
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Chalkbeat Colorado
Many Colorado educators say funding constraints and the relentless pressure to focus on academics means physical education gets short shrift in schools. As a result, few kids get the minimum amount of physical education recommended by experts. The problem is compounded by the fact that Colorado is one of the few states that doesn’t require physical education in schools.
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NAESP
Elementary and middle-level principals work tirelessly on behalf of our nation's students. Principals' perspectives on how Pre-K-8 education should function is summarized in the NAESP Platform. NAESP's advocacy staff works to shape Congress's and U.S. Department of Education's policies based on the belief statements included in the platform document. The Platform is reviewed and updated annually and submitted to the Board of Directors to review in March. Member feedback is critical to the resolution process. Review the statements and offer comments and suggestions via email by Jan. 23.
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NAESP
NAESP, in partnership with The Wallace Foundation, invites you to participate in a Twitter chat, "Cultivating Your Career," that will focus on finding time for professional learning, identifying the best opportunities and planning next steps. The chat takes place Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m ET. Use #NAESPChat to join the conversation.
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