January 4, 2019

By: Jessica Campisi
Source:  Education Dive Dive  Brief: For Boston’s Dr. William W. Henderson Inclusion School, which is focused on serving students with disabilities, building a strong school-parent partnership is key to maximizing the benefits for this student population, Education Week reported. Dive Insight: Maintaining an open line of communication between teachers and parents is important for any student. But […]

January 3, 2019

By: Amelia Harper
Source:  Education Dive Dive Brief: McDowell County Schools, one of the lowest-performing districts in West Virginia, is the first in the state to apply the practice of home visits to selected students in every grade, including high school. The visits are a proactive way to build relationships with families and students rather than a reactive […]

January 3, 2019

Source: On Common Ground News If De’onte Brown could’ve somehow seen into the future on his first day of class at Georgia State University in 2017, he would’ve been very surprised by his transformation. In what felt that day like a fast-paced new world has become a place that feeds his creativity. “Once you get used […]

January 2, 2019

By: Sasha Jones
Source:  Education Week Test-based retention in 8th grade increases the likelihood of criminal conviction by age 25, according to a new study. The study focused on Louisiana students who were held back in 8th grade between 1998-1999 through 2000-2001 because they just scored just below the cutoff on tests designed to determine whether […]

January 2, 2019

By: Yana Kunichoff
Source:  Chalkbeat Chad Adams’ mentor once told him, “If you don’t feed the teachers they’ll eat the kids.” That’s not at all a knock on teachers. Instead, the principal of Chicago’s Sullivan High School in Rogers Park recalls the advice as a reminder to pay attention to and care for his staff. “If […]

January 2, 2019

By: Emily Hanford
Source:  NPR Jack Silva didn’t know anything about how children learn to read. What he did know is that a lot of students in his district were struggling. Silva is the chief academic officer for Bethlehem, Pa., public schools. In 2015, only 56 percent of third-graders were scoring proficient on the state reading […]

January 2, 2019

By: Emily Lowe
Source:  Idaho Press NAMPA — Four months into the job, two 7-month-old Chesapeake-poodle mixes have taken their role seriously in soothing the students at Franklin Roosevelt Elementary in Nampa. In June, two from a litter of puppies were waiting to be selected and trained to become the school’s permanent therapy dogs. Though the […]

December 31, 2018

By: Kendra Hurley
Source:  The Hechinger Report New York City recently introduced a plan that would bring 3-Kinto home-based childcare. It’s a move that other cities and districts are likely to watch closely. The school district is the nation’s largest. There is no playbook for how to effectively include home-based childcare in public preschool, and most programs […]

December 27, 2018

By: Stephen Noonoo
Source: EdSurge We’re getting ready to count down to the new year with a countdown of our own: EdSurge’s annual look at the year’s top K-12 stories as chosen by your clicks and shares. This year, readers turned to stories that helped them make sense of technology’s evolving role in our classrooms […]

December 26, 2018

By: Mike Maciag
Source: Governing Desks in classrooms all across the country are routinely empty. It’s not due to a lack of funding or declining enrollment, but to the fact that students simply aren’t showing up. The most recent federal data suggest more than 1 in 7 students are chronically absent from our public schools. […]