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The White House announced that U.S. high school graduation rates for the 2014-15 school year was the highest number on record at 83.2 percent, although significant disparities still exist between groups of students. Read more>>
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Trying to comply with the McCleary ruling, Washington state has poured billions of dollars into fully funding basic K-12 education. But school districts are still spending millions of dollars in local property-tax money for costs like transportation and building maintenance. Read more>>
High costs are a major reason why many poor students don't take part in school sports, clubs or arts programs, a new survey finds. One in four students from poor families did not participate in school programs in the 2015-16 school year. Read more>>
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High schools create career connections
Atlanta’s film industry has in recent years boomed to third place behind Los Angeles and New York City, and incoming studios noted a major skills gap when looking for videographers, scene constructors, prop creators and costume designers. Leaders of Fulton County Schools in Georgia responded Read more>>
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If you're going to close a school, you had better have a better place for students to go. That's the takeaway from a new report that addresses one of education's most controversial issues and endorses extensive school closures and the move to charters in New Orleans—but not in Baton Rouge. Read more>>
Associated Press via The Washington Times
A question on the November ballot will ask voters to approve a 3 percent tax on the well-off to support a public education fund for Maine teachers and students. Supporters say it would raise more than $150 million and ensure that Maine will fund 55 percent of the K12 education costs as required by a 2004 voter referendum. Read more>>
This week, Texas state troopers and game wardens will either be riding on or following buses in an effort to catch drivers who violate the law and go around stopped buses. State law enforcement officers will also patrol areas where buses pick up and drop off students. Read more>>
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Child development expert Alison Gopnik describes some of the failures in the education system by comparing learning science to learning baseball. Kids learn sports by playing right away, so where's the "doing" in science? Read more>>
Despite attempts to increase cognitive ability, the current emphasis on critical and analytical writing, as dictated by the Common Core standards, actually “uses less of the brain” than a story approach to literacy. Storytelling enables students to connect more with the text and increase complex communication skills. Read more>>
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Should schools of education be held accountable for producing teachers who can raise their students' achievement? The new guidelines for teacher-prep programs are one of the strictest federal accountability rules in higher education. And they have teeth with low-performing programs being in danger of losing access to federal TEACH grants. Read more>>
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Core Learning Exchange/Knovation
To help educators adopt full-scale integration of Open Education Resources for student-centric learning, Core Learning Exchange is partnering with Knovation Learning to bring the Knovation Content Collection to its Mastery Learning Platform of personalized lesson playlists. Read more>>
In partnership with Ematic, PBS KIDS launched the Playtime Pad, a kidSAFE Coppa-certified device that delivers more than 25 games and 120 video clips and music videos pre-loaded, along with over 100 hours of video on the PBS KIDS Video App. Read more>>
PBS LearningMedia/Groupe Média TFO
Beginning in spring 2017, more than 1,000 French educational short-form programs produced by Canada's Groupe Média TFO will be made available through PBS LearningMedia's world language platforms to over 1.8 million teachers and students across 55 states and territories in America. Read more>>
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The California district's board of education has selected Lisette Estrella-Henderson as the Solano County Office of Education County Superintendent of Schools following the retirement of Jay Speck. She has worked for the district for nearly 13 years, including her current position as associate superintendent of student programs and educational services. Read more>>
After five years, Superintendent of Schools Michael Rossi will be bidding New Jersey's Madison School District farewell. He is taking up the position of superintendent of schools in the Sparta Township School District. Read more>>
Daniel Farr, who has served as the superintendent for Sidney schools since 2009, is resigning from the position at the end of this school year. Farr has been in education for 33 years, including 19 in Sidney. Read more>>
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