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Transgender Students, Athletics, Bullying: What the Equality Act Would Mean for Schools

Supporters of the bill say it would extend critical civil rights protections to more students. But opponents say it ignores parents' rights in schools and could lead to confusing situations for some children.




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Bullying and Criminal Acts at School Found to Continue Downward Trend

Amid public concerns about school safety fueled by high-profile school shootings, new federal data show reports of student fights, bullying, and other forms of victimization have continued a decades-long decline.




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Racial Bullying Rose in Communities That Favored Trump in 2016

A Virginia study documents an increase in race-related bullying in middle schools in communities that voted for President Donald Trump, and a drop in those that favored Hilary Clinton.




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It's Not Just That Racial Bullying Jumped in Schools After the 2016 Election. It's Where It Did

The highly polarizing 2016 Presidential campaign blitzed the swing state of Virginia. And in the year that followed, a new study in the journal Educational Researcher suggests school bullying problems likewise split along political lines.




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Disney+ Reaches 28.6 Million Subscribers Since Nov. Launch

Disney's CEO said most of the subscribers to Disney+ came from the US. But going forward, the company expects new subscribers to come from foreign markets as the streaming service expands to more European countries and India this March.




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YouTube's Old Desktop Interface Will Be Disabled in March

Until now desktop users had the option to opt-out of the 2017 interface redesign, but next month you'll be forced to use it (and may also need to upgrade to a new browser).




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Developers Can Now Sell One App for All Mac/iOS Platforms

Buy a universal purchase app for macOS or iOS and use it across all your devices on all Apple platforms including iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS devices.




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Education has so much to teach us all

It was her appreciation that impressed me. She was one of the early migrants to Glasgow. She had fled a war zone with her four children. She’d been assigned a flat in a high rise in Easterhouse. She spoke about it as a dream come true. To her it was a palace.




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How Coronavirus Is Jeopardizing Teacher Pay Raises

The momentum to raise teacher salaries in several states has ground to a halt amid fears of coronavirus’ massive economic blow.




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How Much Home Teaching Is Too Much? Schools Differ in Demands on Parents

While schools are closed to coronavirus, districts are putting together a patchwork of lessons for students to do at home. But districts’ expectations for what students can accomplish at home vary widely, according to parents.




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Most Teachers Don't Want to Extend the Next School Year, Survey Shows

How should schools address learning loss from coronavirus-related closures? A new survey from the Collaborative for Student Success asked teachers, administrators, and policymakers.




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With camps shut, families face summer in the great indoors




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Teaching Kids at Home During Coronavirus: Pro Tips From Homeschoolers

How can parents make sure their kids are still learning, carve out time for their own work, discover their inner teacher, and stay sane? Ed Week turned to the foremost experts for their pro tips: Home schooling parents.




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Parents of disabled students act as teachers, therapists




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What Teachers Should Worry About Right Now

Don't focus on how much work kids are getting done. Instead, set specific learning goals and help students reach them.




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How Are Parents Dividing Home-Teaching Duties During Coronavirus?

In two-parent households, who's taking on the biggest role as schoolwork supervisor? It appears that the answer depends on who you ask.




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How and Why to Teach Rural Entrepreneurship

Rural advocates say developing youth entrepreneurs is one way to spark economic development, and a new Rural Entrepreneurship Teaching Unit gives educators a template for teaching students about that issue.




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Zhao on Entrepreneurship, the Common Core, and Bacon

Yong Zhao speaks to BookMarks about the new education paradigm that he proposes in World Class Leaders (Corwin, 2012).




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Take A Judo Lesson, Leverage Trends To Make An Impact

Against the backdrop of black swan events, broken politics, and the increasing priority of initiative, here is a recap of relevant trends and judo instructions for impact investors and "edupreneurs" interested in leveraging some of those trends.




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Ed-Tech Trends to Look for in 2015: Project-Based Learning, Maker Spaces

Maker-spaces, adaptive learning, and wearable technologies are among the ed-tech trends to keep an eye on in the next few years, a new report says.




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Student Entrepreneurship in Action

What does it take to get students interested in learning entrepreneurial skills?




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Facebook, National Urban League to Partner on Digital-Skills Training

The social media giant, which is facing withering scrutiny over its data-collection practices, has announced a partnership with the National Urban League.




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How Lemonade Stands Are Teaching Kids 21st-Century Business Skills (Video)

Concerned that schools don't notice or nurture business skills, nonprofits are using the humble lemonade stand to foster entrepreneurship.




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Teachers in Pa. District Agree to Work for Free (Again)

The Chester Upland district has faced financial hardship for decades, and for the second time in four years, teachers will be working without pay.




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Union Slams New Mexico Plan to Give Teachers Classroom-Supply Money

As an attempt to mitigate a persistent school supply problem, New Mexico plans to give some 23,000 teachers prepaid gift cards for use on classroom materials. One local union calls it a distraction from larger funding issues.




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Teachers Set a Healthy Example (Video)

In the North Alleghenny School District in Pittsburgh, leaders have made staff health a priority. This year, district educators trained and participated in relay teams at a local marathon.




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Should Schools Have Onsite Health Clinics for Teachers?

School-based health clinics for teachers and their families can significantly lower a district's health care costs and slightly reduce teacher absenteeism, a new study finds.




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When Measles Breaks Out, Unvaccinated Kids Send Schools Scrambling

The effects of an ongoing measles outbreak centered in Washington state have spread well beyond the patients who’ve contracted the virus, creating logistical challenges for schools and public health officials.




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The Promise of Interactive TV Ruined Online Advertising

It's resulted in a creepy Orwellian environment where Google, Facebook, Amazon, and others have replaced Big Brother.




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The Hysteria Over Face Recognition

The fear is that instead of using it to prevent crime and catch terrorists, facial recognition is instead used for political purposes. But we won't stop it or protect privacy by freaking out.




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This Is What's Really Wrong With Facebook

Russians buying ads aren't the problem. It's a lack of employees policing the truly harmful and dangerous content and a lackluster communications strategy.




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Twitter and Facebook Are Publishers, Not Platforms

Social networks are calling themselves platforms rather than publishers to skirt around legal issues, and it has to stop.




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Early-Childhood Teachers

Having a bachelor's degree, a top-notch grade point average, and a relatively high level of work experience actually reduce the chance that a job applicant will be called in for an interview with a child-care provider, concludes new research by Kent State and Arizona State universities.




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Bad Teaching for Preschoolers? There Are Lots of Apps for That

Poor feedback, ineffective guidance and instructions, and lack of adaptivity are some of the key shortcomings identified by researchers in a study of 171 popular mobile learning apps for 3-5 year olds.




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New Study Calls for More Research Into Early-Childhood Teacher Preparation

There's a new focus on getting more training to early-childhood educators, but there's a dearth of information about what constitutes a high-quality, teacher-preparation program.




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Literacy-Rich Preschool Classrooms Key to Early Reading

Expert says labels, books, and writing centers all help with skill development




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What Early-Childhood Accountability Can Learn From K-12's Mistakes

Education needs to stop going around in circles, writes Stanford’s Thomas S. Dee.




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Why Instructional Coaching Matters in Independent Schools

While independent schools can feel quite different from their public, charter, and parochial counterparts, the glue that holds all schools together is this noble charge we call teaching.




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Why the Teaching Profession Matters More Than Ever

While teaching is still in the top 10 of highly regarded professions, parents have stopped encouraging their children to become teachers. Guest blogger Heather Harding explores what should be done.




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Culturally Supportive Program for Black Boys Boosts On-Time Graduation Rates

The California district rolled out a culturally-specific program to support black male students, and the program has led to positive outcomes for students who had an opportunity to participate.




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Writing a Book Is a 'Teacher's Version of Climbing Mount Everest'

Six teacher-authors discuss what they learned over the past year and a half as they wrote books that are set to be published in the coming weeks.




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Classroom Culture: Teach More Than 'Just Math' (Video)

Marlo Warburton, a 7th and 8th grade math teacher at Longfellow Arts and Technology Middle School in Berkeley, Calif., shares how greeting her students in the morning and expressing appreciation during dismissal are valuable opportunities for character building and for fostering teacher-student rela




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Can Leadership Coaching Help Leaders Focus on What Matters?

Being a school leader is difficult. They are meant to focus on improvement while also negotiating their way through adult behavior. Can leadership coaching help them focus on what truly matters?




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Video: Preparing Learners: Activating Prior Knowledge

In this lesson, 7th grade English/language arts teacher Emily Park-Friend takes her students through a three-step interview activity.




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Teach to One: Inventing the Future of Math Learning

In 2007, Joel Rose conceived an idea for an innovative, blended way to teach middle school math. Today, it has spread to over 40 schools reaching 13,000 students. Here's how.




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A Classroom Strategy: Student-Teacher Conferences Promote Learning (Video)

Chris Knutson, an 8th grade history teacher at Horning Middle School in Waukesha, Wis., shares how he incorporates learning conferences into his lessons.




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How Do You Get Middle School Students to Stop Talking? Creative Tips From Teachers

Teachers unleash a flood of creative responses to one of the Most Persistent Teaching Questions of All Time: How do you get ever-chatty middle schoolers to quiet down and pay attention?




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Old pals act: as an exhibition of his photographs of John Byrne opens in Edinburgh, David Eustace on his long friendship and working relationship with the artist and playwright

For three decades now, the artist and playwright John Byrne has been sitting regularly for photographer David Eustace, the Glasgow-born photographer who left school at 16 and joined first the navy and then the prison service before settling on a career behind a camera.




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Senate Braced for Lengthy Debate on ESEA

The bipartisan proposal to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act may take up a week or more of the Senate's time.




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Arne Duncan on Accountability in ESEA Reauthorization

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan may only have eighteen months left in office—but they're critical months when it comes to the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.