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The Northwest Indiana Times
State officials have begun developing a financial indicators monitoring program for all public schools in the hope of eliminating the need for more takeovers of financially distressed units. Read more>>
Does automating the workflow around processes—such as hiring, funding proposals, vendor management, capital expenditure requests, maintenance and operational requests—actually help districts become more efficient? What processes are leading school districts automating? Read more>>
Young children with better eye-to-hand co-ordination were more likely to achieve higher scores for reading, writing and maths according to new research—raising the possibility schools could provide extra support to children who are clumsy. Read more>>
The Boston Public Library put out a call to librarians across the state to send in anything they thought needed preserving, offering each about 15,000 pages of free digitization. And those librarians responded by sending in...yearbooks. Carloads of yearbooks. Read more>>
The Early College Opportunity Program helps students in Windham Public Schools earn an associate degree in manufacturing and prepares them to work for local manufacturers. Read more>>
Principals and districts benefit when principal supervisors move beyond the role of administrator to coach and mentor, according to a new report. The report highlights details about the implementation of five key components to reshape the supervisor position. Read more>>
After a year of study to figure out how to dump the Smarter Balanced standardized test and use the SAT, ACT or similar exam in its place, the Oregon Department of Education announced its new choice: the same Smarter Balanced test that critics had persuaded it should be replaced. Read more>>
More than half of Ohio school districts do not have specific policies on crowdfunding, according to Ohio Auditor Dave Yost, even as more schools and teachers are turning to fundraising websites to pay for classroom projects and needs. New policies regulating crowdfunding in districts can help avoid potential legal issues. Read more>>
New research suggests that heat waves can slow the brains of even healthy young adults. Young people are usually considered resilient to heat exposures, but the study suggests they can experience negative effects in the way they learn. Read more>>
As New York City parents debate how to give all students fair access to good public schools, integration advocates in Brooklyn want to scrap middle schools’ use of academic criteria to select students. Read more>>
Carnegie Science Center educators have developed a STEM curriculum with Girl Up designed to inspire participants in Girl Up’s 2,200 clubs in 103 countries to consider careers in STEM fields. Read more>>
ScholarChip/Ripple Effects
A new partnership addresses students’ physical security, school climate, personal behavior and social-emotional well-being as equally important parts of their overall safety at school. ScholarChip’s ABE program will now use Ripple Effects for the direct-to-student intervention piece of its Behavior Management suite. Read more>>
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Gov. Roy Cooper criticized lawmakers for not putting a $2 billion statewide school construction bond on the ballot this fall. Lawmakers added extra school construction money in the state budget this year, but it's only about one-tenth of the funds the bond would have supplied. Read more>>
Building Design & Construction
Would instruction be more effective if students spent less time passively listening to lectures and more time actively learning through activities, discussions, and group work? Read more>>
One strategy to deal with the current and future labor-supply shortfalls is now ramping up. It’s an effort by an industry and labor coalition to introduce inner-city high school students to the potentially lucrative benefits of learning a construction trade. Read more>>
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