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Finding Common Ground Through Data to Improve Idaho's Teacher Pipeline

A superintendent outlines the importance of various groups coming together to address teacher recruitment and retention challenges in Idaho.




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Tackling Teacher Recruitment and Retention Challenges in Idaho

Representatives from school districts, state education agencies, and institutions of higher education in Idaho convene to discuss teacher recruitment and retention.




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Moving to Mastery in Idaho

Schools in Idaho are moving towards competency-based education in order to provide more personalized learning for all students. Read more from Tom's recent visit.




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There's Pushback to Social-Emotional Learning. Here's What Happened in One State

When Idaho education leaders pitched social-emotional learning training for teachers, some state lawmakers compared the plan to dystopian behavior control. Some walked out of the meeting.




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Students' Song About KKK Raises Cautions for Teachers

A viral video of Dover, N.H., high school students singing a song about the Ku Klux Klan to the tune of "Jingle Bells" is causing outrage.




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Consultation with community: planning the next phases of the project

The Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project is entering its second phase, which will focus on community consultation




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Word of the Week - Mung-goo

Each week, the Indigenous Services Branch of the State Library of NSW will be posting an Indigenous ‘word of the wee




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The Anaiwan Language Revival Program

Over a period of 18 months, we worked with a reference group of nine language custodians from across NSW and the ACT to




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What Teachers Can Learn from Iowa's Efforts to Engage Teen Caucusgoers

A new generation of Iowans are preparing to caucus for the first time. Here's how their teachers are preparing them, and what it says about civics education in 2020.




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Superintendents on Hot Seat in Executing School Closures

Many are whipsawed by shutdown recommendations aimed at stemming the coronavirus, and the logistical and financial consequences of those actions.




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The Iowa Caucuses: a Political Mess, but a Teaching Opportunity?

Primary season is now upon us. Here are three ideas for teaching in the wake of the Iowa caucus fallout.




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Largest Iowa school district could extend distance learning




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A District Knew It Was Failing Some Students. How It's Using Parents to Help

The Minneapolis district—with large achievement gaps between white and black students—is enlisting parents from communities of color to help it gather broader and better feedback on how to improve.




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Supreme Court Strikes Minnesota Law Barring Political Apparel at Polling Places

In a case implicating the use of schools as voting locations as well as free speech in education, the justices said Minnesota went too far.




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Minnesota Education Leaders Grapple with Findings from Early-Ed. Audit

An audit of the early-childhood education offerings in Minnesota finds complexity and fragmentation as well as a lack of data about program effectiveness.




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How Weather Forced a Minn. District to Establish E-Learning Options On the Fly

The director of teaching and learning for a Minnesota district talks about putting e-learning days into action under difficult circumstances.




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Minnesota Court Again Rejects Challenge to Teacher Tenure

The Minnesota court of appeals has again rejected a lawsuit alleging that teacher tenure and seniority rights in public schools saddle students of color with ineffective teachers and therefore violate those students' right to an adequate education.




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'Reconnecting McDowell' Buys Property for Teacher Housing

A private-public partnership is moving forward with efforts to recruit and retain teachers by building housing for educators in rural West Virginia.




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W.Va. Partnership Supports Grandparents in Raising School-Age Children

Nearly 45 percent of children in rural McDowell County, West Virginia do not live with their parents and many are being raised by grandparents.




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Thousands of Teachers. 4 States. Your Guide to the Protests Sweeping the Nation

As Oklahoma teachers prepare for day four of their statewide walkout, here's a guide to the larger picture of teacher protests.




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After Four Years, Progress Reported by 'Reconnecting McDowell'

Academic and health offerings have increased in McDowell County, W.Va., due to a private-public partnership.




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West Virginia Teachers Are Going on Strike Again

Teachers across the state will walk out of their classrooms on Tuesday to protest an education bill going through the state legislature.




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Video of Teacher Dragging Special Education Student Roils Mississippi District

A Greenville, Miss. teacher was fired and a superintendent placed on administrative leave after a video of a student being dragged by her hair surfaced on social media.




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States to Schools: Teach Reading the Right Way

Worried that far too many students have weak reading skills, states are passing new laws that require aspiring teachers—and, increasingly, teachers who are already in the classroom—to master reading instruction that’s solidly grounded in research.




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Appeals Court Revives Mississippi Suit Asserting Federal Right to Education

The court revived a lawsuit claiming that Mississippi's lack of a "uniform" education system violates the 1868 federal law that readmitted the state to the Union.




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Vt. Residents Vote Against Consolidating School Districts (Video)

In a small region of Vermont, a fierce debate raged over consolidating five tiny school districts into one.




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Rediscovering School Quality Reviews

Resurrecting an old idea about assessing school quality could allow schools to examine a broad range of data on performance and practices and lead to improvement.




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Social and Emotional Learning in Vermont

In the Green Mountain State, education leaders discuss their focus on the whole child.




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Where They Are: The Nation's Small But Growing Population of Black English-Learners

In five northern U.S. states, black students comprise more than a fifth of ELL enrollment.




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New Breed of After-School Programs Embrace English-Learners

A handful of districts and other groups are reshaping the after-school space to provide a wide range of social and linguistic supports for newcomer students.




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Schools Lean on Staff Who Speak Students' Language to Keep English-Learners Connected

The rocky shift to remote learning has exacerbated inequities for the nation's 5 million English-learners. An army of multilingual liaisons work round the clock to plug widening gaps.




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Vermont school district eliminates 36 teaching assistants




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A Perennial Challenge in Rural Alaska: Getting and Keeping Teachers

Recruiters already are offering bonuses, free housing, and airfare to entice teachers to their remote districts—and the competition is about to get worse.




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Troubleshooting Tech Realities in Rural Schools

Internet connectivity, recruiting staff, and finding partners to learn from are all big challenges for an ed-tech leader in a district off the coast of Alaska.




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An Alaskan Village's Long Wait for a New School

Rural schools everywhere struggle to maintain adequate buildings, but the quest for a new school has been especially long and fraught for this remote Old Believer village.




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François-Charles-Joseph Bonaparte, King of Rome, as a boy. Engraving by W. Bromley, 1830, after Sir T. Lawrence.




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François-Charles-Joseph Bonaparte, King of Rome, as a boy. Engraving by W. Bromley, 1830, after Sir T. Lawrence.

London (3 Haymarket) : Published ... by W.B. Tiffin, June 21st 1830.




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Belisarius begging for alms. Engraving by G. Scotin after J. Goupy after L. Borzone.

[London?], [between 1730 and 1753]




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Cupid learning to read the letters of the alphabet. Engraving after A. Allegri, il Corrreggio.

[London] (at the Historic Gallery, 87 Pall Mall) : Pub.d by Mr Stone.




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Cinderella seated by the fire, attended by a white cat. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds the younger, 1837, after S.W. Reynolds.

London : Published by Wm. Hayward, 1837.




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A rich man and a woman who has visited him for tea gossip about an impoverished gentleman's daughter who is present in his house as a governess: the visitor looks at the governess with a supercilious expression. Engraving by R. Hatfield, 1842, after R

London (No. 4, Hanover Street) : Published ... for the proprietor by T.G. March ; [London] (Threadneedle Street) : Sold also by F. G. Moon ; [London] (Strand) : [Sold also by] Ackermann & Co., April 10, 1842 ([London?] : Printed by R. Lloyd)




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Death, wearing a crown and accompanied by monsters, rides a white horse that tramples on men, women and children. Etching by J. Haynes, 1784, after J.H. Mortimer.

London (Norfolk Street, Strand) : J. Mortimer, Jany. 1st 1784.




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King Henri IV after his assassination is taken up to Olympus and received by the gods; France awards the regency to his widow Marie de' Medici. Engraving by G. Duchange, 1708, after J.M. Nattier after Sir P.P. Rubens.

Se vend à Paris (rue St. Jacques au dessus de la rue des Mathurins) : chez le S.r Duchange graveur ordinaire du Roy. Avec privilege du Roy, [1708?]




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A council of the Olympian gods provides for good government of France under the regency of Marie de' Medici. Engraving by B. Picart, 1707, after J.M. Nattier after Sir P.P. Rubens.

A Paris (rue St. Jacques audessus de la rue des Mathurins) : chez G. Duchange graveur du Roy. Avec privilege du Roy, [1708?]




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Three Irish heroes: Oscar, Fingal, and Cúchulainn. Lithograph by H. Aubry-Lecomte, 1820 (?), after A.L. Girodet-Trioson, 1801.

A Paris (rue des deux portes, St André des arts no. 7) : chez Noel et c.ie, [1820?] ([Paris?] : Litho. de F. Noel)




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Constantia is reunited with her father, the emperor Tiberius II Constantinus, and given as bride to Ælla, king of Northumbria. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1799, after J.F. Rigaud.

London (Poets Gallery Fleet Street) : Publish'd ... by Thos. Macklin, Novr. 30. 1799.




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Cybele, accompanied by Bacchus and Ceres, is carried on a chariot drawn by lions, surrounded by ancillary deities and followers; representing the element earth. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1721, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.

Paris (rue de la Vannerie a l'image St. Michel) : Dupuis graveur du Roy, [1721]




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Allegorical tomb of William Cadogan, Earl Cadogan. Line engraving by N. Dorigny, 1736, after C. Vanloo.

[Paris?] : Mac. S. [le tout dirigé & mis au jour, par les soins de Eugene Mac-Swiny], [1741?]




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Weaving, ceramic manufactures, clothing and coiffure displayed through personifications as industrial arts applied to peace. Process print after C. Brown after F. Leighton.




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Oedipus at Colonus: the blind Oedipus, attended by Antigone, is visited by Ismene and by Polynices. Engraving by A.A. Morel after A. Giroust.