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Sharing is a lesson taught early in schools. Now Pennsylvania lawmakers want the school leaders to learn it themselves. A few days after two Lancaster County school districts agreed to share a superintendent next year, lawmakers are considering a proposal to incentivize such arrangements aimed at saving costs. Read more>>
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A new report about the performance of Georgia schools authorized by the State Charter Schools Commission finds a mixed bag, with 15 statewide charter schools neither excelling far ahead of nor dragging far behind the traditional public schools against which they’re meant to compete. Read more>>
The A+ Scholarship Program has helped many Missouri public high school students go on to a community or technical college, with their first two years' tuition paid. Now, it's becoming available to private high school students. Read more>>
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Teachers report sharp growth in game-based learning
The use of game-based learning in the nation’s classrooms has doubled over the past five years. In 2015, 48 percent of teachers said they used games in their lessons, making them the second-most common form of digital content consumed in the classroom. Read more>>
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An agriculture program that gets fresh produce into schools will expand after Gov. Jay Nixon signed the Farm to Table bill, which will take fresh produce to schools, hospitals, prisons, nursing homes and military bases. The Farm to Table bill is an expansion of the Farm to School bill, which focused on providing fresh produce to Missouri schools. Read more>>
The Senate Education Committee has signed off on a measure creating an "achievement school district," which would take five low-performing public schools and turn over their operation to private education operators, most likely charter school companies. Read more>>
Backers of an initiative designed to boost Oregon's low high school graduation rate turned in signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot. Their proposal would earmark state funding to give high schools an average of $800 per student to spend on approaches to boost graduation rates, including academic and social support for potential dropouts. Read more>>
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Will the ultimate solutions be driven by educators, or political agendas? The turmoil in New York's education system seems to have settled down, but behind the scenes, something extraordinary is going on. Educators are being allowed to fix education. Read more>>
Ohio has already benefited from improvements enacted last year with failing charter schools closing at a faster clip. A National Alliance of Public Charter Schools report makes the case for further advances, especially for an Ohio long ridiculed for its weak charter schools. We need a legislature determined to ensure that online charter schools deliver high quality education. Read more>>
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Prior to the November 2014 vote to legalize recreational marijuana in Oregon, many voters worried that increased use by teens would ensue. Fast forward nearly two years. The percentage of kids in Colorado that used pot in the past month went down 4 percent from 2009 to 2015. Read more>>
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Four key features included in the updated app are improved menu navigation, home screen widgets, push notifications and Touch ID for iOS devices, among additional enhancements. Read more>>
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The HMH Field Trips for Google Expeditions for K12 students currently includes four field trips aligned to select HMH science and social studies curriculum, which are now available via the Google Expeditions Android app. More than 20 additional HMH Field Trips, as well as iOS availability of the Expeditions app, are planned for release over the coming months. Read more>>
The learning analytics engine enable educators to identify at-risk students and find trends in achievement data in real-time across an individual class, school, group of schools or whole school district, depending on the user's role. Read more>>
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Sydnee Dickson, an educator of 36 years and a former state director of teaching and learning, will be Utah's new state superintendent—its fourth in five years. Read more>>
Noel N. Schmidt, who currently serves as the Central Lake Middle School principal in White Bear Lake, has been named by the Virginia School Board to be the district's new superintendent. He replaces Deron Stender, who will lead the Clarinda School District in Iowa. Read more>>
Mario D. Cardinale served as Butler’s superintendent of schools from 2008 to 2014 when he retired. But the retirement didn’t last long. He has been named to lead the school district again. Read more>>
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