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With each new school shooting — the latest left 10 dead Friday in Santa Fe, Texas — the routine of death and grief grows numbingly familiar, and so does the inescapable question: Is there any way for schools to stop them? Read more>>
Digital assessments mean today’s educators have access to more data than ever—but what do you do with it all? How can you turn all those numbers into real, meaningful insights that improve teaching and leaving? Psychometrician Dr. Dianne Henderson provides expert advice in this on-demand webinar. Read more>>
NEWTON, MASS. — As the financial picture at Mount Ida College grew increasingly grim and its bank finally refused to loan more money, the school two years ago turned to a mysterious benefactor whose private money kept the school on life support, documents show. Read more>>
North Carolina public schools could soon become a little more religious, if the General Assembly passes a new bill that would force schools to display signs saying "In God We Trust." Read more>>
In Nebraska, the NAACP, others from Lincoln’s African-American community, the ACLU and gun-control advocates have opposed adding resource officers at middle schools in Lincoln Public Schools. Read more>>
The recent arrests of New Mexico high school coaches on sex charges involving underage female students don’t shock Richard Tripp. Read more>>
As open enrollment grows across Greater Minnesota, the ratios of non-resident students in area school districts vary from less than 1 percent to over 40 percent. Read more>>
Tom Hierck and Kent Peterson
Many K12 leaders try to foster a more positive culture in their schools to teach and reinforce good behavior among students. But this raises some important questions. Read more>>
One of the 110th Tennessee General Assembly’s final actions was the passage of legislation that holds teachers and students harmless from assessment scores generated from this year’s TNReady tests, following yet another botched rollout. Read more>>
Schools are not under siege. Rather, this more likely reflects a short-term contagion effect in which angry dispirited youngsters are inspired by others whose violent outbursts serve as fodder for national attention. Read more>>
In Washington state, hundreds of charter school students rallied at the state Capitol on Thursday as the state Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the fate of their schools and the more than 2,400 enrolled in them. Read more>>
Austin American-Statesman
Only 10 percent of black and Latino students in Austin, Texas, are attending the school district’s highest rated schools, compared with one-third of white students and 50 percent of Asian students. Read more>>
A lawsuit filed last week calls for the desegregation of New Jersey schools, a potentially game-changing legal challenge for minority students across the state. Read more>>
Two Bit Circus Foundation
Two Bit Circus Foundation announced that it will be executing two of their signature STEAM Carnivals in California. STEAM Carnivals allow kids to design, build and produce their own carnival event featuring drones, robotics and other STEAM-based exhibits and activities. Read more>>
Tools4ever announced OneRoster conformance certification for HelloID (cloud-based IDaaS) and expanded certification for Identity and Access Manager. OneRoster is a data exchange for rostering, course setup and grade reporting. Read more>>
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