OECD study of 64 countries and regions finds significant rich-poor divide on math instruction
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Toolkit Offers Ideas for Generating Local Early Childhood Education Revenue
Only 29 percent of four-year-olds and five percent of three-year-olds are currently enrolled in state pre-K programs.
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A Haircut Won’t End Gun Access, Poverty or Under-Resourced Schools
But let’s admit it comforts a desperate parent.
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A Turnaround High School’s Transformative Principal Walks Away
Shabazz High School in Newark goes forward with a new leader.
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Louisiana Teachers to Swap Classrooms for Factory Floors and Office Cubicles
State Pushing Industry Externships for Teachers
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Alaska Wants the Money Without the Oversight
Alaska Governor Bill Walker has a big decision ahead of him. On his desk sits a piece of legislation that, if he choses to sign, may have serious consequences for Alaskan students, not to mention students in states across the nation that may look to Alaska’s example. Legislators are waiting for the governor to sign […]
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Elementary School Teachers Struggle with Common Core Math Standards
Here’s how some education programs are trying to help
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Can a Wall-Climbing Robot Teach Your Kid to Code?
Last month, a few hand-sized, hexagonal robots took over a third-grade classroom in Southborough, Massachusetts. They climbed a whiteboard and drew all over it while flashing multicolored LED’s and chirping musically. All the while, they were teaching kids to code. Meet Root — a robot being beta-tested by its creators at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for […]
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What the Civil Rights Data Tell Us About Early Learners
Last week the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights released the long-awaited data from the 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), an extensive survey of all public schools and districts across the United States. The Office of Civil Rights has been collecting this data since 1968 to track issues related to equal educational […]
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Customized Math Lessons Could Help Students Learn More, Research Says
A math program that offers computer-based, bespoke lessons for students could, with teacher support, help them learn more math, according to a study released last week. The report, from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found encouraging, but mixed, results for a California-based charter school network and a Maryland school district that […]
