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Top News Detroit Free Press With the U.S. Senate evenly split, it fell to Vice President Mike Pence to cast a historic vote confirming Michigan's Betsy DeVos as the nation's 11th education secretary, ending a pitched battle by Democrats, public school teachers and their allies to derail her nomination. Read more>> |
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The New York Times Support among American high school students for the First Amendment is stronger today than it has been in the last 12 years, according to a large nationwide survey. Some 91 percent of high school students say they believe that individuals should be allowed to express unpopular opinions. Read more>> KJZZ The state has invested $38 million into a new database, AzEDS, to make keeping track of public school students easier and more accurate. That progress is at risk of coming to a grinding halt. The governor’s budget proposal has no money for IT in the Arizona Department of Education. Read more>> |
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From DA Magazine K12 sex ed goes beyond the birds and bees Matt Zalaznick High school students in the tiny Magazine School District in Arkansas receive three hours of sex education a year in grades 9 through 12—an approach that Superintendent Brett Bunch acknowledges is inadequate. Read more>> |
East Bay Times Opponents of a parcel tax for public schools that the city’s voters passed in November are suing the Alameda USD, saying the tax violates state law by effectively creating a different taxation rate among property owners that also inherently benefits the owners of large properties, such as shopping centers. Read more>> 10 TV Senate Bill 34 not only pushes Ohio schools to begin after Labor Day, it also includes an option for families within a school district wishing to bypass that time frame. Read more>> The Des Moines Register Des Moines Public Schools will act as "sanctuaries" for undocumented students, barring staff from asking about their immigration status and funneling federal inquiries through the superintendent's office and district attorney. But the measure appears to stops short of blocking the district from working with immigration officials. Read more>> |
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Opinion & Analysis New York Post There’s plenty of evidence that cellphones are detrimental to academic achievement, particularly for students who are less advantaged to begin with. But it’s clear that allowing cellphones in schools has made what is an already difficult environment much worse. Heavy cellphone use is not only correlated with bullying; it’s correlated with being bullied. Read more>> WBUR To be sure, innovative school design models will not automatically translate into increased gains in student learning. But we cannot continue to ignore the significant limitations of traditional school buildings. Touting the benefits of student collaboration becomes empty rhetoric if we do not also intentionally work to establish collaborative learning spaces. Read more>> |
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South Bend Tribune Of all the legislation Indiana lawmakers are expected to address this year, expanding background checks on school employees should be near the top of the list. In the past, there has been weak mandatory reporting of teacher misconduct and very little information available online about teacher disciplinary actions and teachers’ misconduct not being shared with other states. Read more>> |
Industry News Follett Corporation Follett has formed a partnership with New Zealand-based Wendy Pye Publishing to provide more than 300 fiction and nonfiction titles for K2 classrooms. Pye’s company introduced Sunshine Classics in the U.S. in the 1980s, and the popular reading program has been revived with updated print options for learners and educators. Read more>> LocknCharge After not being able to find a solution that fit Denton ISD’s needs for deploying mobile devices in the classroom, LocknCharge and the district collaborated to create the Carrier 15 Charging Station. The mobile device carts will allow the school district to store, charge and deploy up to 20,000 mobile devices. Read more>> Accelerate Learning Inc. Accelerate Learning and the New York Hall of Science have joined forces to develop a new solution called STEMscopes DIVE In Engineering, which will be part of Accelerate Learning’s STEMscopes PreK–12 product suite. The online, comprehensive, hands-on engineering curriculum for grades 3–8 will be available for the 2017-18 school year. Read more>> |
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