Jonathan Plucker

The new Fordham Institute report, "Is There a Gifted Gap?", gives a lot of food for thought. Although gifted education research is in many ways thriving, attention to policy research has been woefully underdeveloped, and this study is a major contribution to filling that void. Read more>>

Sponsored by Microsoft Education

Schools considering upgrading or replacing their devices are faced with the challenge of finding the right affordable laptops. In addition, they also need to quickly deploy those devices across hundreds of students and staff. See how some of the major cloud-based management solutions stack up. Read more>>

TeachThought

Teaching great means teaching differently—and that’s not easy. They often defy what you’re looking for because the standardization of education has you look for factors of standardization. Great teaching can be disruptive teaching; this is an uncomfortable idea schools aren’t always designed to allow for. Read more>>

Sponsored by Matific

Matific, an online math resource, is running a national math competition for all K6 students. There are over $50,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs, including a grand prize of $15,000 cash. Free to enter, register your school and inspire students to learn math. Read more>>

The 74
Nationally, the transition to accepting play in school is just in its beginning stages. Learning how to play teaches collaboration, community building, language development and critical thinking. And play teaches skills such as the confidence to learn from failures. Read more>>
Sponsored by Forecast5 Analytics

As we talk about ways to analyze student readiness, the problem is often not having enough data about students. It can be quite the opposite. Most school districts produce and store treasure troves of information about students that are housed in multiple data systems. How do we "declutter" all that data? Read more>>

Cincinnati.com

Students should feel safe, secure and welcomed in our nation’s schools. But the prevalence of social media, recent incidents of racial discrimination and more have clearly not been helpful to learning communities. There must be a commitment from adults to lead the way to establish school belongingness. Read more>>

The Hechinger Report

Some of the most celebrated education reform efforts today serve to make instruction more difficult. Personalized learning, project-based learning, mastery-based learning—they all require more work of teachers and of students. But are these reforms more the evolution of an education system that, in the scope of human history, is still quite young? Read more>>

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