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Education DIVE
It is widely accepted that there is a teacher shortage in the United States, but when it comes to special education teachers, the situation is even more dire. According to the National Coalition on Personnel Shortages on Special Education and Related Resources, between 82 percent and 99 percent of special education teachers are not ideally qualified to serve in this capacity. Not only that, but the attrition rate for these educators is twice that of general education teachers.
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Phys.org
More than 160,000 children were disciplined using corporal punishment in public schools in the United States in the 2013-2014 school year, according to data recently released by the U.S. Department of Education. School corporal punishment, which typically involves striking a child with a wooden board or paddle, is currently legal in public schools in 19 U.S. states. A new Social Policy Report, published by the Society for Research in Child Development, has found that Black children, boys and children with disabilities are subjected to corporal punishment with greater frequency than their peers.
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Education World
Changing seasons represent a unique opportunity for educators to inspire and engage students with related content. Take the most advantage of this autumn season by utilizing these seasonal STEM ideas, designed for easy implementation in any classroom!
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Education DIVE
A little house sits on a wooden stock just outside of writer Eudora Welty's home in Jackson, Mississippi. It's marked by a sign, "Little Free Library," that encourages a curious passerby to open the door, explore, and take or leave a story for the next traveler. While the compact nook is meant to be a friendly project to encourage literacy within the neighborhood, it serves another purpose. The library aids the state's forward thinkers with a decades-long effort: Promoting an understanding of other people.
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Edutopia
When early elementary teachers integrate music and theater, student learning improves in reading, math and science as they become better critical thinkers and problem solvers.
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[FreshGrade Education Inc.]
In this eBook, leaders in education share their best practices and experiences with portfolios and assessment. You'll learn how to save time for educators, empower students to own their learning, implement innovative assessment practices, enhance student outcomes, and actively engage parents in the learning journey. EdTech RoundUp described FreshGrade as uniquely combining student-led portfolios with flexible, custom assessment and parent engagement in one. FreshGrade is used by teachers, parents, and students in all 50 states and in more than 70 countries around the world.
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eSchool News
Peek inside Brittany Horning's second-grade class at L'Ouverture Elementary School, and you'll see kids sprawled on large ottomans, perched atop bouncy seats, lying back on gamer-style recliners and using footstools as makeshift desks. It looks more like a living room or a neighborhood coffee shop — minus the whirring espresso machine — than a traditional classroom with rows of desks. "The kids really enjoy being in this environment. It feels comfortable to them," said Janelle Roland, who oversees the school's teacher training and behavior plan.
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MindShift
Classrooms in the U.S. often focus most attention on literacy and math, largely because those skills are considered foundational and are tested. However most people will also need to communicate their thoughts and ideas to other people through oral language, and yet effective communication strategies are often not taught with the same precision and structure as other parts of the curriculum.
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Time
Elementary school students are eager to engage in real-world economic decisions, and doing so significantly improves their money management skills and sets them on a clearer path to long-term financial security, new research shows. Florida kids exposed to a 10-week program in the Palm Beach School District were 11 percent more likely to open a bank account and engage in other economic activity, according to findings from the University of Wisconsin Center for Financial Literacy. These kids were 9 percent more likely to have some kind of budget and 5 percent more likely to understand basic financial concepts and talk about money at home.
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EdSurge
Teachers matter! This refrain is well-grounded in empirical research — differences between teachers have been shown not only to affect student test achievement but also a variety of later life student outcomes — and it is the basis for a concerted national effort to upgrade the skill-set of the nation's teacher workforce.
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Education Week
While education leaders debate innovations in school management and teaching strategy, it's important not to forget one of the most basic ways to improve student achievement: Actually give them books. Kristian L. Holden, a researcher for the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research at the American Institutes for Research, found spending a little less than $100 per student for new textbooks led to significant improvements in reading and math performance in some of California's poorest and lowest-performing elementary schools.
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eSchool News
Today's society is mobile and global. Laptops, tablets and smartphones connect users with information in less than a second, and because mobility has increased our connectivity, we've increased our connections with all parts of the world. These advancements mean students have to be ready to learn and work on a global scale. And luckily, with a mobile device and the internet, it's fairly simple to help students get on the road to developing a global mindset.
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EdTech Magazine
It's a costly endeavor to lay the technology foundation needed for an effective digital teaching and learning environment. Just ask any K–12 school that opted to take the early plunge in building the robust broadband and wireless networks required by today's mobile devices and digital resources. Fortunately, schools no longer have to go it alone. In 2014, the Federal Communications Commission made major changes to its long-standing E-rate program. The agency boosted E-rate's annual budget from $2.4 billion to $3.9 billion and made all K–12 schools eligible for a share of it to ensure that there are enough funds for all schools, not just those characterized as low-income or rural. And, in September, the FCC released its 2017 Eligible Services List.
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K-12 TechDecisions
Digital signs are being installed at an ever growing rate on many campuses. As educational, administrative, athletic and informational units see the effectiveness of these signs they want one or more to tell their story. These screen can use multiple forms of digital information from static to dynamic and allow interaction with the viewing public. If you fail to protect your digital signage infrastructure it has the possibility of being high jacked and embarrassing your organization.
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Education Week
How can schools and districts use federal money intended for at-risk and needy students to improve general learning conditions? The U.S. Department of Education has some suggestions. Last month, the department released "Supporting School Reform by Leveraging Federal Funds in a Schoolwide Program." It specifies how schools can use federal money to drive comprehensive turnaround efforts and help all of their students, regardless of whether those children are identified as Title I (or disadvantaged) students.
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Houston Chronicle
The federal government ordered Texas state officials to eliminate an 8.5 percent benchmark on special education enrollment enforced in the state's 1,200 school districts unless they can show that it had not kept children with disabilities from receiving appropriate educational services. The U.S. Department of Education directed the state to report back in 30 days on the benchmark's impact and on which school districts across the state may have relied on it to deny special education services to children. Its findings on those districts should include "the specific steps the State will take to remedy the effect of such past practices," the department said.
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MLive
Teacher always want their students in class and ready to learn. But the stakes for school attendance are a little higher today — the state's annual student count day. Student count day — which falls on the first Wednesday of October — is when districts officially report their attendance numbers to the state. It's important, because under Michigan's school funding formula, each student translates into dollars for the district. Ninety percent of state aid is based upon Wednesday's count day, while the other 10 percent is based upon a second count day held in February.
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NAESP
The majority of American public school parents approve of how their children's schools are communicating with them. But there's more work to do, as always. Sixty percent of parents surveyed in the 2016 Phi Delta Kappa Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools are "highly satisfied with their school’s efforts to keep them informed about how their child is doing in school," the poll results say. Still, this means about 40 percent aren't so satisfied.
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NAESP
Between five and seven and a half million children in the U.S. are chronically absent each year. According to new research by the Ad Council, 86 percent of parents agree that attendance plays a big role in their child graduating from high school, but nearly half believe missing three or more days of school per month won't have a significant impact on their child's academic performance.
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