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Six school districts will receive funding from a $75 million initiative that will help them develop a much larger corps of effective school principals and determine whether this…
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We've all heard the theory that some students are visual learners, while others are auditory learners. And still other kids learn best when lessons involve movement, NPR reports.
Buyout packages becoming common for departing school superintendents
From Massachusetts to California, a rising number of school superintendents who find themselves at odds with their boards of education are enjoying softer landings thanks to generous farewell…
Drug test proposal inspires 8-day teacher strike in Illinois
Angered by a newly proposed random drug testing policy, the teachers union in the Illini Bluffs School District in the central Illinois town of Glasford, located 15 miles…
What’s really wrong with ‘parent trigger’ laws
“Parent trigger” laws, first passed in California and then elsewhere in the country, typically state that over 50 percent of the parents in a school or schools “feeding…
Opinion: When roommates were random
Today I am a college professor, and I am sad that most of my students will not experience what I did back when Mark Zuckerberg was in diapers,…
New York spikes education software deal with Wireless Generation
New York’s comptroller has spiked a $27 million contract with an education software firm owned by Rupert Murdoch because of the media mogul’s phone hacking scandal in Great…
Ind. vouchers prompt thousands to change schools
Weeks after Indiana began the nation's broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic…
School superintendent gives up $800K in pay
Some people give back to their community. Then there's Fresno County, Calif., School Superintendent Larry Powell, who's really giving back. As in $800,000—what would have been his compensation…
Missouri judge blocks Facebook limits for teachers
A new Missouri law prohibiting teachers from having private online conversations with students suffered a double setback Aug. 26. First, a judge blocked it from taking effect because…
Teacher: How to address school bullying—and how not to
PBIS stands for Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support, a disciplinary framework for schools to help prevent bullying that is, in my experience, heavy on jargon but light on…
NYC ordered to release teacher performance data
A New York state appellate court has ruled New York City must release reports that measure public school teachers’ effect on their student test scores—complete with the teachers’…
Cheating teachers, principals found in 5 more Georgia schools
Richard Hyde, the investigator behind the July bombshell report of extensive teacher cheating in Atlanta's schools, expects to have the next installment of the unfolding saga ready by…
Hispanics surpass blacks in college enrollment
Hispanics surpassed blacks in 2010 to become the second-largest racial or ethnic group of young adults in America’s colleges, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data,…
CPS: Property tax hike approved to offset new costs
According to the Huffington Post, the Chicago Board of Education unanimously approved a budget late Wednesday afternoon that includes a property tax hike for homeowners, ABC7 News reports.
Jobs resigns as Apple CEO; educators ponder his ed-tech legacy
Though Steve Jobs wasn’t at Apple’s helm during the twelve years the company established itself as the leader in educational technology in the 1980s and 90s, it was…
Opinion: Why great teachers aren’t enough to make schools work
We love to talk about teachers—good teachers, bad teachers. Our entire narrative about schools seems to revolve around finding good teachers and firing bad ones, says Harold Kwalwasser,…
Watch: Teachers rap a public letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan
Twitter's 140-character allowance wasn't enough for anonymous rapping teacher duo Two Teachers and a Microphone to talk education with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, reports the Huffington…
Opinion: What the U.S. can learn about education from Canadians
There is a debate, if that’s what you can even call it, raging in America about how to improve our public education system, Reuters reports.
How to fix our math education
There is widespread alarm in the United States about the state of our math education, reports the New York Times.
Student-inspired strike in Chile erupts in violence
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Watch: Steven Brill to Diane Ravitch: Unions must be on side of reform
The founder of The American Lawyer magazine and Court TV tells the story of a coalition of unlikely allies in the fight to change a school system that…
Do we spend too much on education?
Americans are spending more and more on education, but the resulting credentials—a high-school diploma and college degrees—seem to be losing value in the labor market, reports the New…
How does Obama want to reshape preschools? Education Department shows its hand.
The Department of Education on Tuesday announced the guidelines governing the $500 million in Race to the Top grants that it sees as a tool to reshape preschool…
ADHD, bipolar children at risk for losing benefits
After Hulston Poe started taking the appropriate ADHD medication, his mother said she was able to "see a light" in her son's eyes again, reports the Huffington Post.…
7 innovative ways teachers are using tech in the classroom
Many schools across the country have rules about tech in the classroom, but they’re not the rules you might think. Teachers instruct students to take out their smartphones,…
Child identity theft takes advantage of kids’ unused social security numbers
Every few weeks, Stephanie McManis receives a phone call from a collection agency asking for someone she never met, the Huffington Post reports.
Embattled Philadelphia schools chief leaving post under $905,000 buyout
The city's embattled schools superintendent abruptly left the district Monday with $900,000 promised in severance, capping a tumultuous tenure that saw increased test scores and graduation rates but…
Back-to-school facts: $7 billion-plus in shopping and everything else
Here is everything you ever wanted to know—even things you didn’t know enough to know that you wanted to know—about the back to school season, compiled by our…
Back-to-school can mean vaccines for tweens, teens
Backpack. Notebooks. Whooping cough shot? If you haven't worried about back-to-school shots since your tween or teen was entering kindergarten, better put vaccines on the to-do list, the…
High school ‘Teacher of the Year’ suspended for Facebook rant
A Florida high school's "Teacher of the Year" has been suspended for an anti-gay post he wrote on his Facebook page last month, the Huffington Post reports.
Districts eliminate Friday classes to save money
When the nearly 300 students of the Irene-Wakonda School District returned to school this week, they found a lot of old friends, teachers and familiar routines awaiting them.…
Perry’s education record questioned
Gov. Rick Perry might make a case for his presidential potential around the country, but critics in his home state question his leadership on education, CBS 19 reports.
The Touchpad and HP’s future in education
Buh-bye, Touchpad…and buh-bye to the perennial back-to-school pallets of HP hardware. Time to look elsewhere for tech refreshes, no matter how cheap HPs might be (or might become),…
Rotten apples: Coping with educators who cheat
A problem that has plagued schools in Atlanta, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and elsewhere could further erode confidence in public education—just when schools need all the support…
Missouri teachers sue over social networking law
A Missouri teachers' union said Aug. 19 that it is challenging a controversial new state measure that restricts teachers' use of social networking sites and their contact with…