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Financial risk best practices help protect districts from fraud
Rules and protocols in use nationwide include implementing money-handling rules requiring two people to work together when dealing with money or deposits, and designating an internal auditor to monitor compliance.
By Shawna De La Rosa • May 1, 2019 -
Colorado exploring alternative accountability systems
A proposed bill would allow districts, educational cooperatives and charters to experiment with the creation of alternative accountability systems focused on metrics like student engagement and instructional quality.
By Amelia Harper • May 1, 2019 -
Trendline
Curriculum
Educators are exploring a variety of strategies to improve students’ learning experiences while continuing to navigate ongoing political disputes.
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What is a Montessori teacher?
Learn what the Montessori teaching method is and gain insight about how to become a Montessori teacher.
April 30, 2019 -
Column
50 States of Ed Policy: A continued push for school choice
Between Betsy DeVos campaigning for Education Freedom Scholarships and state legislatures wrestling over voucher proposals, school choice policy made many headlines in April.
By Jessica Campisi • April 30, 2019 -
DC joins districts adopting graduation guides to help students stay on course
The guides — published in English, Spanish and Amharic — are seven-page reports that include an unofficial transcript, progress toward graduation, information on college choices, and personalized career options.
By Amelia Harper • April 30, 2019 -
Deep Dive
US 8th-graders show growth in tech, engineering skills
NAEP results show girls outscoring boys in almost every area but not taking as many STEM classes, while performance gaps persist between students of color and their white peers.
By Linda Jacobson • April 30, 2019 -
Shifts in principal supervisors' roles boost retention, support
Data from the Council of the Great City Schools shows these administrators are now supervising about 16 principals, down from 24 in 2012, and average tenure has doubled to six years.
By Shawna De La Rosa • April 30, 2019 -
NEA: Latest salary data highlights teacher pay gap as salaries fail to keep pace with inflation
As more teachers prepare to walk out this week, data shows $50,000 is the most many can earn in at least 1,000 U.S. school districts.
By Linda Jacobson • April 29, 2019 -
Legislative plan provides 'roadmap' for boosting early ed access in California
With California lagging behind other states in early ed, lawmakers are considering bills related to funding and preschool teacher pay.
By Linda Jacobson • April 29, 2019 -
Courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action
School-university partnerships help fill funding gaps, prepare future teachers
Such agreements give college students considering careers in education access to real-world learning experiences.
By Amelia Harper • April 29, 2019 -
Student lunch debt balloons to median $2,500 per school district
In an effort to reduce lunch-shaming, districts are taking on high lunch debt serving students meals despite negative account balances.
By Shawna De La Rosa • April 29, 2019 -
District implements Digital Awareness Month to promote smart tech use
With device use on the rise in students' school and personal lives, Hilliard City Schools in Columbus, Ohio, sets aside a month to cover topics including online safety, digital citizenship and wellness.
By Shawna De La Rosa • April 26, 2019 -
Detroit invests $9M in attendance agents to fight truancy
Under the initiative, the district has had just two days this school year where attendance dropped below 75%, compared to eight by the same time last year.
By Amelia Harper • April 26, 2019 -
Survey: Teachers remain lukewarm on ed tech's impact on classrooms
Less than a third report they've changed their teaching styles or philosophies based on ed tech, though a tendency for technology to merely digitize existing approaches could be part of the problem.
By Shawna De La Rosa • April 26, 2019 -
Study: After four years, scores drop among students in voucher program
A mismatch between curriculum in Louisiana public and private schools could be one explanation for the decline in performance, researchers said.
By Linda Jacobson • April 25, 2019 -
Opinion
A less noisy classroom equals a better learning environment
Over 40 years of research supports the need for noise abatement consideration in school design and city planning, writes Arline L. Bronzaft, a professor emerita at Lehman College, City University of New York.
By Arline Bronzaft • April 25, 2019 -
Montgomery County Planning Commission
Maintaining school facilities a challenge for poorer districts
A rural Kansas district — one of many that has to raise most of its own facilities funds — is unable to sell the public on a local tax increase to update its buildings, illustrating the inequities between affluent and poorer areas.
By Amelia Harper • April 25, 2019 -
How US can model top-performing international ed systems
American student performance lags behind that of other industrialized nations. Experts say pairing struggling schools with high-performing ones is a principle at work in other countries that district leaders can implement.
By Linda Jacobson • April 24, 2019 -
Deep Dive
3 steps for improving lessons on the Holocaust
Just 10 states mandate Holocaust education in public schools, and as more look to follow suit, experts say it's crucial to ensure this and other genocides are accurately portrayed and not trivialized.
By Lauren Barack • April 24, 2019 -
Pull-out programs focused on academics may accelerate learning for gifted students
Districts are faced with deciding whether to use gifted programming to increase the pace of student learning or to develop other thinking skills.
By Lauren Barack • April 24, 2019 -
New science assessment rollouts highlight need for patience, planning in curriculum shifts
Educators and students alike must have time to adjust to and plan for new accountability models, materials, assessments and more for positive results.
By Lauren Barack • April 24, 2019 -
Brain breaks can refocus, relax students while enhancing SEL
An educator and former school counselor suggests several short in-class exercises to foster social-emotional skills including self-regulation.
By Lauren Barack • April 24, 2019 -
Planning to buy ed tech? The 'why' and 'how' matter more than 'what'
Having a strong plan in place and breaking down silos between departments can be more important than the specific tools being purchased.
By Shawna De La Rosa • April 24, 2019 -
These 3 tactics are helping schools tackle food insecurity
Using methods including food trucks and in-school pantries, colleges, communities and corporations are increasingly joining school districts in their efforts to keep underserved students fed.
By Shawna De La Rosa • April 24, 2019 -
Denver schools face push for fewer cops, more counselors
With higher youth suicide rates and racial disparities in school discipline, community members want the Colorado district to lower the student-to-social-worker ratio and cut police officers in schools.
By Amelia Harper • April 24, 2019
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