August 21, 2018
By: Dana Goldstein
Source: The New York Times By his own account, Alejandro Cruz-Guzman’s five children have received a good education at public schools in St. Paul. His two oldest daughters are starting careers in finance and teaching. Another daughter, a high-school student, plans to become a doctor. But their success, Mr. Cruz-Guzman said, flows partly […]
August 17, 2018
By: Tony Wan
Source: EdSurge Gmail. Instagram. YouTube. Chances are you’ve opened up one of those apps today on your phone (and perhaps spent more time on them than you might like to admit). But earlier this week, one educational app reigned over all in the endless galaxy of apps. According to both Apple and App Annie, a website […]
August 17, 2018
By: Jillian Harding
Source: CBS News At schools around the country, officials are tackling student absenteeism by focusing on a non-educational problem: a lack of access to laundry facilities. At West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey Principal Akbar Cook says a lack of clean clothing was a big reason 85 percent of students at […]
August 16, 2018
By: Hillary Borrud, The Oregonian/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop PORTLAND, Ore. — The family of a child with disabilities is suing Oregon Senate Republican Leader Jackie Winters and the Salem homeowners’ board on which she serves after it voted to bar the girl’s school from providing her with door-to-door bus service. A lawsuit filed in May by […]
August 15, 2018
By: Benjamin Herold
Source: Education Week A bipartisan bill now in Congress would give the National Institutes of Health $95 million over five years to fund studies on how media and technology effect children. The proposed Children and Media Research Advancement Act, or CAMRA, outlines an ambitious research agenda. It calls for studies on the impact of […]
August 15, 2018
By: Amanda Jackson
Source: CNN As teachers in a northern Kentucky school district headed back to work on Monday, they were in for a surprise. Quite often teachers have to dip in their own pockets to buy necessities for their classrooms, but this year all 143 teachers in the Pendleton County school district were gifted $100 […]
August 15, 2018
By: Beth Hawkins
Source: The 74 Like other superintendents throughout the country, Connie Hayes has spent recent years puzzling over two related trends: Students in her district’s schools require special education services at younger and younger ages, and their needs are increasingly complex. Along with the challenges presented by autism, cognitive disabilities, and behavioral disorders, even […]
August 14, 2018
By: Paul O’Neill and Stephanie Lancet
Source: Education Dive Last week, a federal judge in Brooklyn issued an order that advanced a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed in 2015 against Success Academy, a high-achieving charter school network in New York, by former students and their parents (the plaintiffs). In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege that the Principal of Success Academy’s Fort […]
August 14, 2018
By: Karla Philliips
Source: The 74 This year, I watched my daughter’s friends — friends I was warned she might never have — surround my sweet girl and sing “Happy Birthday” to her. As Vanessa turned 10 this year, I couldn’t help but recall how the beautiful, cake-covered smiles of her first birthday had inspired me to carry […]
August 13, 2018
By: Raquel Rios
Source: Education Week Mindfulness, yoga, and meditation have gotten popular in K-12 schools across the country. However, not enough attention has been paid to how these practices can prepare students to critique and challenge inequities in our country. To many social-justice-minded advocates, mindfulness seems like nothing more than a distraction to get people […]