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The Hechinger Report
U.S. spending on elementary and high school education declined 3 percent from 2010 to 2014 even as its economy prospered and its student population grew. Over this same time period, education spending, on average, rose 5 percent per student across the 35 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Read more>>
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Associated Press via WRAL
Students and parents still fighting for sufficient school funding in North Carolina decades after they were guaranteed the right to a sound, basic education should make demands of the governor and legislators, not county officials, a divided state Court of Appeals ruled. Read more>>
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WTOP
The new Seneca Valley High School, which is expected to open in 2020, will be the largest in the state in terms of its size at 440,000 square feet. The four-story building will house 2,400 students at a cost of approximately $130 million. Read more>>
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Fox 59
The Indianapolis Public Schools' school board voted to approve a plan that seeks to fix the district’s low enrollment and financial problems. Under the plan, three high schools and one middle school will close. The various approved changes are estimated to save the district $7 million a year. Read more>>
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Burlington Free Press
Representatives from Burlington's teachers union and the school board were back at the negotiating table to hammer out a contract. This is the second time in the last seven days the two groups have met to try to reach a deal. Read more>>
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
First-year Gov. Eric Greitens’ attempt to remake the state school board hit another roadblock. For the third time, one of the governor’s appointees to the eight-member board withdrew from consideration, further delaying his attempt to replace current Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven with his own pick. Read more>>
From DA Magazine
Angela Pascopella Requiring high schools to offer at least one AP course would help increase rural student access to rigorous pre-college work, according to a recent report. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
The Conversation
Working, driving, drinking alcohol, having sex and dating have one thing in common: They are all activities adults do. Adolescence—once the beginning of adulthood—now seems to be an extension of childhood. It’s not that teens are more virtuous or lazier. They could simply be taking longer to grow up. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
U.S. News & World Report
Districts are spending so much on pensions and health care that there's no room for bigger salaries. They can take steps to limit the growing burden of benefits, but none of them are easy. Options include moving away from pensions toward more sustainable options and minimizing health care costs. Or they can follow Chicago's example and raise taxes. Read more>>
Opinion & Analysis
The Boston Globe
Playing tackle football under the age of 12 exposes children to repetitive head impacts that may double their risk of developing behavioral problems and triple their chances of suffering depression later in life, according to a study published Tuesday in Nature magazine’s journal, Translational Psychiatry. Read more>>
Industry News
Insight ADVANCE
Real-time data and data management features have been added to Insight ADVANCE's ADVANCEfeedback solution. New components put observation data, individual data displays and summative data into the hands of education stakeholders. Read more>>
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NWEA
The Michigan Department of Education has approved NWEA's MAP Growth System and Skills Checklists as initial and extensive assessments to support the state’s Early Literacy Initiative. Starting this fall, districts can use NWEA’s assessment solutions to screen and measure young students' academic performance and growth in the early grades. Read more>>
Industry News
IO Education
To continue helping educators improve student outcomes, IO Education has acquired student information system provider eSchoolData, which currently works with over 250 schools in New York and Pennsylvania. eSchoolData will augment IO Education’s data analytics platform as IO Education continues to build on its New York presence and expand across country. Read more>> |
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