December 8, 2018
By: Julia Jacobs
Source: The New York Times Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is not shy about sharing his taste for chocolate milk. “I wouldn’t be as big as I am today without chocolate milk,” Mr. Perdue told reporters in May 2017, while discussing his plan to relax Obama-era school lunch rules. It was one of his […]
December 7, 2018
By: Youki Terada
Source: Edutopia Education research continues to remind us of the powerful impact teachers have on children. This impact is overwhelmingly positive—the studies we highlight here demonstrate specific ways in which teachers can or already do help students feel a sense of belonging in school and make gains in learning. There are areas […]
December 6, 2018
By: Koby Levin
Source: Chalkbeat All of the educational techniques that have ever been tried have one thing in common. They don’t work if the students don’t show up. Michigan is learning this firsthand. It has the nation’s sixth-worst rate of chronic absenteeism: Fifteen percent of Michigan students miss 1 in 10 school days. […]
December 5, 2018
By: Sarah Schwartz
Source: Education Week In Lauren Eisinger and Kara Houppert’s co-taught 5th grade classroom, every instructional choice requires a lot of planning. When Eisinger, a special education teacher at Naples Elementary School in upstate New York, and Houppert, a 5th grade teacher, wanted to start a class book club last year, they knew they […]
December 5, 2018
By: Jack Bradley
Source: Education Week I live in parallel universes—the universe of special education and the universe of not-so-special education. For most of high school, I spent half of every school day in a resource room and the other half in AP classes. Every day I was split in two. Students like me are called […]
December 4, 2018
By: Susan Christian Goulding, The Orange Country Register/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop SEAL BEACH, Calif. — Mayra and Roberto Contreras never imagined that, after years of medical school, they would wind up in the toy business. But when the Seal Beach couple learned their first child, Olivia Rose, had Down syndrome, life suddenly took them on an […]
December 4, 2018
By: Jason B. Allen
Source: The 74 It’s your first year at a new middle school and your name is RaQuan. Immediately on the first day of school, you are judged. Your skin color, name, clothes, learning ability all determine if the school’s focus is on your academic or your discipline record. Like many other black […]
December 4, 2018
By: Ron Southwick, PennLive/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop Over decades of public service, President George H.W. Bush’s work to improve the lives of millions of Americans with disabilities may be one of his more overlooked accomplishments. But it may be one of the most enduring legacies of Bush’s presidency. And it’s gaining fresh attention in the wake […]
November 30, 2018
By: Josh Kovner, Hartford Courant/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop SIMSBURY, Conn. — Noelle Alix and her daughter, Cate, 21, had been all over Simsbury, looking for a job for Cate. Cate is friendly and outgoing. She’d been voted prom queen at Simsbury High School, and had recently graduated. She was now at the age that scares the […]
November 28, 2018
By: Lauren Barack
Source: Education Dive Dive Brief Woodbrook Elementary School in Albemarle County, Virginia, renovated classrooms to make them large enough to accommodate multiple grades, District Administration reports. Multi-age classrooms, the article notes, allow students to move at their own paces, leading students not to worry about falling behind the rest of their peers as if they […]