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Top News
Houston Public Media Houston’s director of special education resigned this week, after months of pressure and scrutiny from parents and advocates for special needs children. During her tenure, the number of children evaluated for special ed in HISD dropped dramatically, fallilng to the lowest of almost any large city in the country and below the state benchmark of 8.5 percent. Read more>> |
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| VTDigger The State Board of Education this week approved two more school district merger proposals that will go before voters on May 2. Several laws passed by the Legislature require towns to have conversations about voluntarily merging into larger school districts to deal with a significant loss of students across the state. Read more>> Hartford Courant Connecticut Technical High School System Superintendent Nivea L. Torres spent $84,000 in taxpayers' money last September to buy memberships to a national educators' group for 1,312 administrators and teachers under her jurisdiction. Read more>> |
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From DA Magazine K12 professional development tools Steven Wyman-Blackburn Educators want more effective ways to implement new teaching methods into lesson plans. The professional development market is advancing, offering flexible and sustainable solutions rather than one-off workshops, lectures and in-service programs. Read more>> |
| PA Homepage Big changes are on the horizon for the Tunkhannock Area School District in Wyoming County, Penn., as the school board voted overwhelmingly to close three of its four elementary schools in the coming years. Read more>> The Citizen's Voice The Dallas School District is filing an unfair labor practice with the state and hopes to prevent teachers from collecting more than $500,000 in unearned compensation. Read more>> The Baltimore Sun Gov. Larry Hogan blasted an education reform bill that's moving through the General Assembly, calling it "misguided and horrible." The bill would set standards for how to identify low-performing schools, using a combination of test scores and other factors, such as absenteeism and the number of highly qualified teachers. Read more>> |
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Opinion & Analysis
The New York Times For young people with college-educated parents, the path to higher education may be stressful, but there is a road map. Working-class students, however, simply lack the knowledge of how to manage the increasingly complex college applications process. Read more>> NPR In the past five years, 27 states have revised their laws with the intention of reducing suspensions and expulsions, which has happened. An analysis of the available evidence, however, argues that school climate in cities, on the whole, has gotten worse. Read more>> |
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| Cleveland.com The school voucher programs that some federal and state officials want to expand have mixed test results in Ohio that make it unclear how much more students learn than if they had stayed in their local public schools. Read more>> |
Industry News
WSIPC/Brightspace WSIPC members can now choose D2L’s Brightspace learning management system, allowing the member schools to bypass the burden of a complex RFP process. WSIPC is a public nonprofit cooperative that provides K12 public and private schools in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska with technology solutions, services and support. Read more>> ASCD ASCD Student Growth Center is a joint venture between ASCD and Lee Ann Jung and Rich Ord, the former partners of Student Growth Works. The center will provide professional learning services and products, including the new GoalWorks software, which supports goal setting, intervention design and progress monitoring for students with learning differences. Read more>>
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