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Kansas City Charter School Found Locking Up Phones Left More Time for Learning
Facetime calls. Blaring music. Video games. “You name it, it was happening” during class at DeLaSalle High School, said Breona Ward, director of college and career progressions. Students’ cellphone use got in the way of learning at the Kansas City charter school. The difference Ward saw in her English classroom was “night and day” after […]
With $8.5M Investment, New Mexico Tries Once Again to Get Tutoring Right
In April, New Mexico launched a tutoring effort with all the “high-impact” elements experts say lead to success: small groups, led by a trained tutor for 90 minutes of instruction spread throughout the week. It was the third attempt in two years. With the school year winding down, some districts never even got word the […]
Bill to Protect Kids Online Could Buoy a Far-Right Push Against Trans Youth
When the Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in support of the most significant new online safety rules for children in decades, it delivered a major victory for parents who blame the ills of social media for injuring — and in some cases killing — their kids. But civil rights activists and free speech groups warn that the […]
Florida Schools Won’t Hit Pre-pandemic Enrollment in Next Decade, Economists Say
A state forecast indicates Florida schools will experience declining enrollment in five of the next six years, with the one positive year representing less than a 0.1% increase. The student enrollment forecast from the state Office of Economic and Demographic Research predicts that 12,379 fewer students will attend traditional public schools during the 2024-2025 school […]
South Carolina Spending $2.5M For Child Care But Fewer Families Will Benefit
COLUMBIA – Fewer families in South Carolina will receive help covering the cost of child care as federal COVID-19 aid dries up and the state replaces just a quarter of that lost funding. For about three years, amid the global coronavirus pandemic, the federal government raised income limits, making more parents eligible for federal dollars […]
To Maximize the Impact of Curriculum Mandates, Follow the Science of Reading
This is part two of a three-part series spotlighting school leaders across Maryland who have recently implemented high-quality literacy curricula. (See our prior installment) Gary Willow is Associate Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction at Washington County Public Schools in Hagerstown; below, he shares how the district nurtured homegrown expertise and built community support to ensure […]
NYC Civic Org is Educating Teen Voters About Online Political Misinformation
As political misinformation and disinformation intensify online, civic organizations are tackling media illiteracy among young people ahead of the November presidential election. A Deloitte survey found that over half of Gen Z teens get their news from social media, and a poll last year found that 60% of 13- to 17-year-olds are likely to believe […]
California Lost 420K Public School Kids in 4 Years — & May Drop 1M More by 2031
California public school enrollment passed the 5 million mark in 1991. That number quickly grew to 6 million by 1999 and then reached 6.4 million students in 2004. Then, the growth machine stalled. California has long seen a large percentage of its residents move to other states, but international immigration and high birth rates more […]
Maryland BOE Not On Same Page About Literacy Policy To Hold Back Third Graders
Some members balked Tuesday as the Maryland State Board of Education reviewed a proposed literacy policy that could lead to third grade students with reading difficulties being held back, with one calling it “harmful to children.” Board member Susan Getty, an educator of 40 years that includes 35 years teaching prekindergarten and kindergarten, said the […]
Ohio’s School-Based Behavioral Health Partnerships Jump 200% Since 2017
An Ohio group said data showed “troubling” trends in youth mental health, but also said optimistic trends exist in school-community partnerships to address student behavioral health. The Ohio Council of Behavioral Health & Family Services Providers, which says it represents 165 private entities that provide “community-based prevention, substance use, mental health and family services” in […]
Free Summer Camp For More Kids? Connecticut Sen. Murphy Pitches $4B Investment
U.S. Sen Chris Murphy visited Camp Courant Friday to announce newly proposed federal legislation that would invest billions of dollars into free summer programs for kids across the country. The Hartford camp, which bills itself as the largest and oldest free summer day camp in the country, serves hundreds of children each year. It would be among those […]
Opinion: Forget Hot-Button Ed Issues — Voters Want Safe Schools and Kids Who Can Read
Excited graduates wearing caps and gowns walk across the stage. After exhorting speeches, auditoriums and bleachers erupt in tears, hugs and laughter as one milestone is passed and another era begins. As the nation’s school districts celebrate this transition in the lives of the Class of 2024, they are also preparing for the transition from […]
The Key Investors Who Once Touted L.A. Schools’ Failed $6M AI Chatbot Go Silent
Earlier this summer, leaders at the ed tech company AllHere, contracted by Los Angeles schools to build a heavily hyped $6 million AI chatbot, offered assurances to one of its investors. At the time, principals with Boston Impact Initiative were finalizing the firm’s annual impact assessment of AllHere, a 2016 startup that offered a tech-driven […]
Alaska Apprenticeship Program Approval Brings Millions to Teacher Pipeline
When the only preschool teacher left Harold Kaveolook School in Kaktovik, a village of around 250 people on the northern coast of Alaska, Chelsea Brower was in charge. It was January and she had been the preschool aide for about a year-and-a-half. “Being with the kids and trying to be their teacher is what really […]
Opinion: Lessons for Closing Schools: Face the Challenge, Prioritize Students, Be Honest
Prompted by declining enrollment and the impending loss of federal pandemic relief funding, school districts nationwide are wrestling with whether to close schools — and, if so, how many. Seattle is weighing a plan to close a quarter of its elementary schools. Rochester, New York, voted last fall to shut 11 of its 45 schools. […]
New Hampshire Appealing Federal Court Decision Against ‘Banned Concepts’ Law
Months after a federal court held that a 2021 state law regulating how teachers address race, gender, and other topics was unconstitutional, New Hampshire’s Attorney General’s Office has filed an appeal. In a filing to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston announced Wednesday, the office argued that the U.S. District Court of New […]
Opinion: From COVID Learning Loss to Artificial Intelligence, Education R&D Can’t Wait
When COVID struck, scientists rushed to stem the pandemic in a coordinated effort that led to the creation of new vaccines in record time, saving millions of lives. These vaccines resulted from decades of investment by the federal government in mRNA research. Investing in research and development is a time-tested and effective way to solve […]
Ohio Moves Ahead with Science of Reading Lessons, But Some Schools Still Lag
Boxes of new science of reading workbooks sit at the front of classrooms at East Woods Intermediate School in Hudson, Ohio, ready for teachers to start using when students return to school next month. Like a third of the 600 districts across the state, the Hudson schools near Cleveland didn’t use science of reading books […]
Opinion: From Success Mentors to Washing Machines, Ways to Help Kids Stay in School
For lack of a washing machine, a seventh-grader was nearly lost. This student, who lives in temporary housing in the Bronx, missed the first two weeks of class. When his mother finally agreed to a visit from a social worker, she revealed that she had no money for laundry and her child had no clothes […]
Harris Could Set Democrats’ K–12 Agenda By Reviving Ideas from 2020
Fortified by a stream of Democratic endorsements and high-dollar donations, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared every bit the presidential contender when she appeared before the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers last week. Addressing thousands of her party’s most loyal supporters just days after being endorsed by President Joe Biden, the newly ascendant […]
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