MORTON, Miss. — It’s Cinco de Mayo in Christy Crotwell’s class, and Luis Antonio Hernandez is reading the first-graders a story about the holiday’s origins. He reads each page twice — once in English, once in Spanish — and the students give him their full attention. One kid wears a large sombrero in honor of […]
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Something is Working at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
Unlike gated communities that front as niche schools, this New Orleans art high school is a true magnet.
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2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book Finds Stagnating Poverty and Racial Inequity
New data was released last week for the 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book, an annual report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The Data Book, which measures the well-being of children across the nation, uses four key domains to assess how kids are faring: economic well-being, education, health, and family and community. The Data Book […]
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How Energy Efficiency Can Help Student Achievement
JACKSON — Yazoo County School District Superintendent Becky Fischer said the lights in the high school in her district were so old, they could not even find bulbs for them when they went out. Electric equipment, decades old, fell repeatedly, meaning constant maintenance and repair for the district’s schools in a county where 36.2 percent […]
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New Brief: Exceptional Circumstances
A new blog series on issues in Early Childhood Special Education
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It Takes an Ecosystem: The Role of Informal Spaces in Early STEM Learning
Integrating hands-on informal learning experiences with the the formal school-day is emerging as a pathway for boosting achievement
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California Acts to Cultivate Bilingual Teaching Force
New programs recruit and train educators who reflect state’s multilingual students
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Tech for Tots and Teachers: Promoting STEM Learning in PreK-3 Classrooms
Teachers aren’t comfortable with introducing young children to science, but here’s a fellowship trying to change that.
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The edTPA: What We Do and Don’t Know
Last year, 18,000 prospective teachers took the edTPA nationally, and about 72 percent scored high enough to pass.
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Immigration Can Redeem Education Reformers’ Progressive Credentials
Immigration policy is to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton what health care was to President Obama. Democratic education reformers should act accordingly and prepare to lose some “friends” in the process. Republicans’ failure to offer amnesty to undocumented immigrants only increases the amount of time immigrants naturalize and assimilate. There is no practical, political […]
