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A New York senator is urging legislative action on a bill to allow automated cameras on school buses. The bill aims to stop motorists from illegally passing stopped school buses. Currently, motorists who pass stopped school buses can only be issued a ticket if a police officer witnesses the violation. Read more>>
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There’s a growing need for schools to provide resources that offer information and support for teens suffering from mental illness. Discover how Charlottesville High School is helping students understand and manage depression, stress, anxiety and more with an e-book collection that nurtures their mental health. Read more>>
Days of online testing problems this spring forced Tennessee officials to toss out a new A-F grading system. Now the state Education Department will rate each school on a scale of 0-4 on six different performance indicators. Schools also won’t receive a single overall grade or rating as initially planned. Read more>>
The board of the Maryland city's school system voted to approve just one out of six charter school applications. The district’s reasons were wide-ranging: They found some of the schools didn’t establish realistic budgets, didn’t have suitable plans for educating students with disabilities or had not garnered enough community support. Read more>>
Last month, LAUSD’s school board president proposed a spate of highly ambitious mandates aimed at ensuring that every district graduate be eligible to apply to one of the state’s public four-year universities by 2023. By the time the school board approved the resolution, the original language had been watered down. Read more>>
The Education Department denied that the National Rifle Association is playing any role in a White House school safety commission, after a leading Democratic senator raised questions about the organization’s influence. Read more>>
One week after yanking a game simulating school shootings off Steam, Valve Software said it will now takes a hands-off approach to what appears on its video game platform. The company confirmed it will now "allow everything" on its service, with the exception of things they deem illegal or "straight up trolling." Read more>>
Growth mindset could turn out to be one of many tools that can help kids. We don’t necessarily need to discard it. We just need to put it in context and use it to help the kids for whom it seems to work once we figure out who those kids are. Read more>>
While we may not have been able to prevent the Parkland school shooting, a diverse mental health curriculum might have enabled both students and faculty to accurately identify the shooter's troublesome behavior and apply additional pressure on authorities to take action. Read more>>
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Heading to college can be a daunting experience. Worries about picking a major, about being academically ready and about moving away from the security of home are natural. But, unfortunately, adding to the stress is a lack of knowledge among young adults about what college will cost and how it will be paid for. Read more>>
Mentoring Minds has released its Standards Mastery Series, a set of critical thinking tools that streamlines grade-level standards into a single, easy to use flipchart, quickly unpacking state-level and national standards for educators. Read more>>
The Intelligent Adaptive Learning platform empowers differentiation in districts using NWEA MAP Growth scores or core materials including Eureka Math, EngageNY, Contexts for Learning Math, and now enVisionmath2.0 and GO Math. Read more>>
With access to hundreds of curriculum aligned, virtual and augmented reality resources, Inclusive ClassVR immerses special education students in 360º environments that complement their real-world exploration and play. The 'standalone' headsets deliver virtual and augmented experiences. Read more>>
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