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The Legislature's major education package, HB 7055, features a highly controversial new membership requirement for teachers' union. The new change requires teachers' unions to have 50 percent of all people eligible to be in the union be dues-paying members. Read more>>
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Two educators are leading the charge in the United States to help girls envision the wide-open future that STEM careers can provide. They are both innovators who find themselves—literally—at the table with students, mentors and educators. Read more>>
A group of conservative Minnesota high school students have dropped a lawsuit alleging their First Amendment rights were violated by their school district after they spoke out against fellow students protesting the U.S. flag. Read more>>
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is still flummoxed after Miami's schools superintendent accepted the same position in New York City and then backed out, but he says many "extraordinary" professionals "from coast to coast" want the job. Read more>>
Alumni of Montgomery Blair High School accuse a nationally recognized teacher of giving back rubs, leering at girls, calling them sexy, stroking their hands, and remarking on their bodies and sex lives — one account after another in what has become a #MeToo moment focused on experiences in high school. Read more>>
The Virginia House of Delegates approved a bill to expand recess in Virginia elementary schools, allowing recess to be counted as instructional time. Currently, local school boards must allot a set amount of classroom instructional time each year, and recess does not count toward that time. Read more>>
After months of debate, discussion and feedback, four public schools named after historical figures who may have been responsible for violent acts against others humans will be renamed. Read more>>
School districts know that "sit-and-get" professional development isn't working and can have extreme consequences, such as high teacher turnover and poor student performance. To combat this, across the country there is an ongoing, rapid evolution of professional development to be more personalized. While change in education is often slow, this long-overdue advancement is quickly taking shape. Read more>>
The Parkland students’ turn to political action may seem fast—but protest can be an important expression of grief. Read more>>
In practice, research shows mixed outcomes for the roughly 448,000 American students who attend private schools through taxpayer-funded programs. Some thrive, but many do not. Read more>>
Can you imagine a world where your GPA and test scores don’t matter in admissions? There’s a seismic shift at leading universities that signals a move in this direction—performance assessments, a method of evaluation that emphasizes demonstrated learning and acquired skills. Read more>>
District Administration Survey
Many schools have been working with 3D printers for a few years now. DA would like to interview administrators and educators about what they’ve learned about how to get beyond the “cool factor” of these devices. Tell us about the curriculum you’ve developed for 3D printers and how they’ve become an integral part of learning. Contact us>>
Asteria Education, Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of ECS Learning Systems, Inc. and Novel Units, LLC. The new ECS Learning Systems team is evaluating additional acquisitions and is making substantial investments to enhance and expand its STAAR MASTER, TestSMART and Novel Units supplemental education products. Read more>>
Owl Solve That! challenges players to use any combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to create equations that equal a solution card in their hand. Read more>>
City National Bank’s Reading is The way up literacy program, in partnership with Barnes & Noble, announced the donation of new books and cash totaling more than $300,000 to nearly 30 schools and nonprofit organizations in California, Nevada, New York City and Nashville. Read more>>
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