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The Michigan Department of Education is backing away from an effort to assign schools an A-F grade based on performance, choosing instead to use a "dashboard" containing multiple indicators to show school quality. Read more>>
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A federal judge Monday finalized a settlement in a 52-year-old Mississippi school desegregation case, merging historically white and black high schools and middle schools in a district. The Cleveland school district had sought to maintain historically black and white high schools. Read more>>
California state is unveiling the California School Dashboard, a new color-coded way to look at how a child’s school is doing and compare it with other schools. Whether the dashboard provides the right information and whether it presents it clearly enough already are subjects of debate. Read more>>
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How schools outsmart the hackers
Nationally, ransomware attacks surged from 4 million incidents in 2015 to nearly 638 million last year—a jump of 15,850 percent—according to a report from network security firm SonicWall. Read more>>
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Hundreds of teachers from North Texas traveled to the State Capitol to join others rallying against state-funded education savings accounts, saying they would take funding away from public schools, much like a voucher program would. Read more>>
The North Carolina district's schools are suspending fewer students, but black students are still being disciplined at what school leaders say is a disproportionately high rate. Overall, only 4 percent of the district’s more than 157,000 students received a suspension last school year compared to 11 percent of African American students. Read more>>
Less than one third of those who qualify for the federally funded school breakfast program in New York State take advantage of it. A report said low breakfast participation caused the state to forfeit more than $71 million dollars in federal reimbursements in the 2015-16 school year alone. Read more>>
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Even when everyone in a school building understands that a set of habitual behaviors are holding back change, it can be difficult to shift away from them because of time constraints, history, comfort with something familiar, or control issues. But to see changes to teaching and learning, they must name negative habitual behaviors, own them and intentionally make plans to address them. Read more>>
Teachers today are under more scrutiny than ever before. Their jobs are becoming more and more aligned with test scores and performance tasks. We are expected to do more with less. Teachers are searching for something else—something where they can find the balance between doing what the love, and having a life outside the classroom. Read more>>
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States have a golden opportunity to improve education thanks to the bipartisan ESSA. States are well positioned to tackle teacher quality. And the law's new direct student services provision empowers states to make it easier for schools to offer academic courses to students who lack access. States also have the chance to reimagine how to best aid students in struggling schools. Read more>>
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With the addition of new lessons to Mathseeds, the online math program now includes 170 sequential math lessons designed to teach early numeracy skills for students in kindergarten through grade 2. The program includes hundreds of online math games, structured lessons, songs, colorful animations and collectible rewards. Read more>>
ChildCare Education Institute/Excelligence Learning Corporation
Excelligence Learning Corporation, a provider of educational tools and solutions to early childhood and elementary school teachers and parents, has acquired ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI). CCEI offers online professional development and data systems for the early child care and education market. Read more>>
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Kelly Raymond was chosen to become the next Ashland School District's new superintendent. Currently the executive director for instructional leadership in Washington's Highline School District, Raymond will take over from interim Superintendent Suzanne Cusick. Read more>>
Scott Hagerman has been picked as the new superintendent of schools for the Arizona district. He comes from the Continental Elementary School District in Green Valley where he served as superintendent for two years. Read more>>
Alicia Henderson, a former Superintendent of the Year, was offered the lead role for the Washington district, replacing retiring Superintendent Tom Opstad. Henderson had been superintendent of Bellevue USD in California for the past five years, Read more>>
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