It's time to start acting like we believe in talented students 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>> The state of modern device deployment in education 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>> Are schools prepared for great teachers? 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>> How to improve math scores and increase your budget 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>> State needs OK to offset federal school aid with cuts 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>> How to organize student performance data to guide curriculum decisions 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>> Schools must build culture that breeds empathy, compassion 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>> Following the lessons of learning science in schools isn’t convenient 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>> | 