December 12, 2016
By: Kailey Fisicaro
Source: The Bulletin Legislation passed in Oregon is shining a new light on dyslexia, an often misunderstood learning disability. Senate Bill 612, which went into effect in July 2015, requires that every kindergarten and first-grade public school student be screened for risk factors of dyslexia, a learning disability that can make it […]
December 12, 2016
By: Valerie Strauss
Source: Washington Post Research in child development over decades as well as modern neuroscience clearly show that young children learn best when they are active. That means they get to put their hands on things, interact with other kids and adults, move a lot, create, play. But in the current school reform […]
December 12, 2016
By: Eric Westervelt
Source: NPREd If you got 13 percent back on your investments every year, you’d be pretty happy, right? Remember, the S&P 500, historically, has averaged about 7 percent when adjusted for inflation. What if the investment is in children, and the return on investment not only makes economic sense but results in […]
December 12, 2016
By: Evie Blad
Source: Education Week Among the findings from the most recent federal Civil Rights Data Collection that got the most attention: 1.6 million students attend public schools that have an on-site law enforcement officer but no school counselor. That’s a relatively small share of the nation’s students, but civil rights groups—many of which have […]
December 6, 2016
By: Francesca Berardi
Source: Chalkbeat When Monica Hernandez moved to southwest Detroit last spring from California, she headed to her local Head Start center to enroll her two young children, who are 1 and 4. Hernandez, 21, wanted childcare so she would have time to go back to school and earn her GED. She also […]
December 6, 2016
By: Jordan Yadoo
Source: Bloomberg Socio-economic status is becoming less a predictor of student performance in U.S. schools The link between socio-economic status and school performance is weakening for U.S. students, a sign of improving equity in American education even as U.S. teens continue to lag behind their international counterparts in math, reading and science, […]
December 6, 2016
By: Jamie Martines
Source: The Hechinger Report hen students at one California charter network graduate from high school, they get more than just a diploma. They’re offered a job, too. “We need people who look like we do, who come from our neighborhoods and who understand what it is like to be the first, to […]
December 6, 2016
By: Tara Garcia Mathewson
Source: Education Dive Dive Brief: The latest triennial survey of 15-year-old in OECD countries, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), focused on science but also tested math and reading, placing the United States about average in science and reading but below average in math. According to the results, 20% of […]
December 6, 2016
By: Sonali Kohli
Source: LA Times While Chukwuagoziem Uzoegwu was growing up, his mother often would throw what he and his brothers called “educational tantrums.” On those weekends or on random days in the long stretch of summer vacation, the Uzoegwu boys would be barred from TV “from sun up to sunset,” he said. “Leisure time was spent reading. Leisure time was spent writing,” said Uzoegwu, now […]
December 5, 2016
By: Meredith Kolodner
Source: The Hechinger Report Robert Wells graduated from high school with a B+ average. He took honors physics in 11th grade and earned a general education diploma, even though his cerebral palsy classified him as a special education student. So he and his mother were shocked when a counselor from a […]