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Testing Opt-Outs Threaten School Equity, Measurement Group Says

A group of testing experts says that opt-out could jeopardize the ability to target educational resources appropriately.




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New 'What Works Clearinghouse' Aims to Help Districts Find Research for ESSA

A new version of the federal research site allows users to find research related to specific school populations.




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GAO Finds Uneven Landscape of State Rules for Tax-Credit Scholarships

Tax-credit scholarship programs in 17 states collected $1.1 billion in contributions in 2017, a new analysis from the GAO finds.




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How to Harness the Tremendous Potential of Open Education Resources

A textbook is no longer enough in many classrooms, writes Dan McDowell, but finding the right OER materials can be tricky.




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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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LGBTQ Issues Roil Florida School-Choice Debate

As lawmakers weigh expansion of the state’s voucher and tax-credit scholarship programs, some renew a push for anti-discrimination protection for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students.




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Video: Learning From Mistakes: Linear Equations

Watch students in 8th grade teacher Susie Morehead's class deepen their understanding of math principles by working through problems with their peers.




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Sports, Out-of-School Volunteering May Ease Transition to Middle Grades

Community groups and sports not connected to school can help students stay more connected academically during a critical transition period, according to a study of low-income students in New York City.




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Does High School Choice Really Expand Students' Options?

A new study finds that even high-achieving middle school students don't apply to New York City's most competitive high schools, raising questions about the power of high school choice.




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Gates Foundation Eyes Middle Years Math Instruction

It's part of the foundation's $425 million research and development push, announced last fall.




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Students' Confidence, Not Grades, Take a Hit in Schools with Short Grade Span, Study Suggests

The move to middle school can be a rougher adjustment for students who were high achievers at their elementary schools, finds a new study.




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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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Older Kids' Messages Can Make the Move to Middle School Less Daunting

A forthcoming study finds that beginning middle schoolers benefit from two 15-minute writing exercises to boost their sense of social and academic belonging.




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Galleries: Three very different takes on Scotland

For me, art galleries have always provided shelter from the storm. The tempest in question might be a literal one, such as Storm Dennis, who buffeted us all from on high last weekend, or it could simply be a sudden squall in the mind. Art in all forms can take us out of ourselves – even if it's for a split-second – and recalibrate the mind.




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Galleries: New Contemporaries - Take a peek at the stars of tomorrow

New Contemporaries is in its 12th year now, an annual showing of the Royal Scottish Academy’s pick of graduates from the previous year’s degree shows. A wonderful opportunity for the young artists themselves – this is a prestigious exhibition and a prestigious venue to put on one’s CV – it is also a handy shortcut for anyone who wants to get a snapshot of the kind of work coming out of our art colleges at the moment.




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Galleries: Tim Stead saving part of the nation’s furniture

Celebrated artist and wood sculptor, Tim Stead, may be best known for public works such as the Millennium Clock in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, the furniture in Glasgow's Cafe Gandolfi and the North Sea Oil Industries Memorial Chapel in Aberdeen, but his masterpiece is closer to home.




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Galleries: A themed exhibition conceived by Helen Mirra

The contemporary art space Cample Line has been set up amongst the fields and agricultural vistas of Dumfriesshire for three years now. Occupying what was once a set of three single-storey mill workers cottages, before it was knocked through and given a second storey in the Victorian period, it will open for the 2020 season later this month with a somewhat aptly themed exhibition – “Acts for placing woollen and linen” - by the American conceptual artist Helen Mirra, whose strong socio-envi




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Galleries: There is more to Billy Connolly than just comedy

I have touched Billy Connolly's coattails with the best of them so I know what it is like to have a brush with stardom. This brief encounter with the Big Yin's coat of many colours happened the night before the opening his new exhibition, Born on a Rainy Day, opened at Glasgow's Castle Fine Art gallery.




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The 10 Best Scottish Paintings

OF course, it’s a ridiculous idea. The 10 best Scottish paintings. As if anyone could choose. But if you take the folly of it as read, well, then, why not? See it as a game. A declaration of taste and bias, prejudice and ignorance and, more than likely, stupidity. Something to argue with at the very least. A list to incite your own counterblast.




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Opinion: Doug Marr: No extension of house arrest for the over-70s, please

IN the years BC (Before Covid), my morning routine was consistent. First, perusal of the paper, starting with the sport followed by the death notices. Continued absence from the latter represented a pretty good start to the day. Omnipresent coronavirus has reversed that order. Now, my first port of call is the ever-expanding family notices. Worryingly, for a man in his eighth decade, the deaths section lengthens daily. Equally concerning, is my proximity to the average age of those whose demise




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Now is the time to reinvent travel for our economic and environmental futures

MY after work walk on Wednesday was a zig zag, following the sun as she headed west.




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Herald Diary: Torn buttock muscles, you say?

Rocker’s bum note




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Meet Sen. Bingaman, the Newest Member of ESEA's Big 8

Sen. Bingaman will be the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate on ESEA reauthorization.




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ESEA Hearing: What Wasn't Answered

There is no point in discussing what testing program best provides accountability if the tests do not actually measure any of the things we want schools to be accountable for.




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ESEA Renewal: Exploring the Proposals

Congressional Republicans and Democrats are at work on competing proposals to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Use our interactive explorer to take a deeper dive into each proposal.




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Refresher: What's in the House ESEA Bill?

The measure was not on the Majority Leader's weekly schedule for action, but sources said it could be called to the floor as early as Wednesday.




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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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Red Flags on the Road to ESEA Rewrite

Lopsided votes in the U.S. Senate and House obscure stark differences in their bills to overhaul the outdated Elementary and Secondary Education Act.




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A Thank You to Congress on ESEA Reauthorization




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ESEA Reauthorization: A Certain Gnashing of Teeth

Those anxious to reverse the aggressive federal role in education resulting from No Child Left Behind should not rush to simply push the pendulum as hard as possible in the other direction.




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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.




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What's the State of Play on ESEA Reauthorization?

The pending departure of Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, the speaker of the House seems to have lit a fire under negotiations on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.




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ESEA Reauthorization and Accountability: A Chance to Do It Right

Part two of Marc Tucker's suggestions to state leaders as ESEA reauthorization swings responsibility for standards and accountability systems back to the states.




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ESEA Reauthorization: A Look at a Draft of the Bill

Click here for late stage draft of the actual bill that could become the latest iteration of the ESEA, the Every Student Succeeds Act or ESSA.




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Congress Won't Reauthorize ESEA, So Netflix Will Do It For Them

The new Netflix series "House of Cards" features a ruthless congressman as he spearheads the renewal of a fantasy Elementary and Secondary Education Act.




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Seven Observations on ESEA Reauthorization

ESEA/NCLB reauthorization is off and running. As it races forward, here are seven things to keep in mind.




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ESEA and the Competitive Grant Question

I think any substantial push on competitive grants is a dead letter. And I think that's probably a good thing.




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From the Archives: Perspectives on ESEA

The policy implications of the ESEA, and its most recent reauthorization, the No Child Left Behind Act, have been at the heart of an enduring public debate.




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A Checklist for Fixing ESEA

Yesterday, the House passed the Student Success Act, but there's still a ways to go before a final bill. Here's a checklist for a final bill to "fix" NCLB.




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For Your Consideration: Education Plotlines for 'House of Cards,' Season 2

The first season of the Netflix political potboiler was rich with education-policy plotlines, and we're hoping for more of the same.




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Do English-Language Learners Get Stigmatized by Teachers? A Study Says Yes

New research suggests that English-language-learner classification has a "direct and negative effect on teachers' perceptions of students' academic skills."




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José Viana, Head of Federal ELL Office to Resign

"I will forever be grateful for the opportunity and privilege I have been given to serve my country and its learners," Viana wrote in an email to supporters this week.




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Connecting With English-Learner Families: 5 Ideas to Help Schools

English-language-learner families are less likely to attend parent-teacher conferences and other school-related events, which means they miss out on important opportunities to communicate about their children's academic progress.




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On Bilingualism, Bias, and Immigration: Our Top English-Learner Stories of 2019

Education Week's top English-language learner stories on 2019 explored who's teaching the nation's English-learners and the struggles those educators encounter on the job, how the Trump administration's immigration policies affected students and their families and examined why more schools in the Un




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Federal ELL Official Leaves for Job With Rosetta Stone

José Viana led the office of English-language acquisition since April 2017. The Education Department has not announced a successor.




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Spanish Dominates Dual-Language Programs, But Schools Offer Diverse Options

Mandarin Chinese, French, German, and Vietnamese are also among five most-offered types of dual-language programs, a new federal report shows.




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Bring Back Anti-Discrimination Guidance on School Discipline, Commission Urges

But the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was not unanimous in its support of the findings that students of color were not more likely to commit discipline-worthy offenses.




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Black-White Achievement Gaps Go Hand in Hand With Discipline Disparities

As black-white achievement gaps widen in schools, so, too, do disparities in discipline rates between black and white students, according to a study published Wednesday of 2,000 schools.




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Court Upholds Handcuffing of 2nd Grader Who Resisted Being Led to School Office

A federal appeals court panel in St. Louis rules that a police officer did not violate the rights of a 7-year-old when he handcuffed the student for 20 minutes.