High school students give Chinese president football AP: Chinese President Xi Jinping received a football, a personalized jersey and instruction on America’s most popular sport during a tour of a Washington state high school….
Detailed MCAS Results: Mostly Up, But Some Concerns Boston Learning Lab: Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts commissioner of elementary and secondary education, is “very concerned” about this year’s MCAS reading scores in the early grades, he said in a telephone press conference Wednesday. But he said he is “very pleased” with overall results on the 2015 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests. The state released district-by-district and individual school results Thursday.
Joe Biden inches past Bernie Sanders in new poll New York Post: say those unions are waiting for Biden to make his decision, whereas the American Federation of Teachers — led by Clinton ally Randi Weingarten — made an early endorsement of Clinton.
English-Learners New to the U.S. Are Focus of Education Department Initiative PK12: John King, a senior adviser to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, acknowledged that the recently completed English-learner tool kit is merely the department’s “first installment” in support of ELLs.
Seattle School Board halts suspensions for elementary students Seattle Times: The Seattle School Board’s resolution calls for a one-year moratorium on some out-of-school suspensions for elementary students, and a plan to reduce such suspensions for all students.
Making College More Affordable, One Text At A Time NPR: The right text or email message can help students get enrolled, find the right payment plan and remind them to pay, White House research shows.
Test results expected for Common Core-aligned exams in Maryland Washington Post: Officials will release the first results in late October, with home reports expected at the end of the year.
High-flying flips is the trick to keeping away bad feelings PBS NewsHour: Tonight, we discover a young man who fights the demons in life through meditation and the kind of high-flying acrobatics seen in video games. It’s an art form known as tricking. The video was shot and edited by teachers from Miami, Detroit and Aurora, Colorado.
How Eva Moskowitz’s growing bureaucracy handled a school-supply fiasco Chalkbeat: A team of staffers from the network was dispatched to Long Island to sort the furniture and supplies into boxes destined for the right schools, staff members said, volunteering nights and weekend days to complete the work.
