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FCC, Congress Weigh Overhaul of E-Rate to Fund Remote Learning

The Federal Communications Commission is engaging Congress to expand funding for in-home connectivity and devices for teachers and students grappling with the coronavirus crisis.




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Ed-Tech Groups to Congress: More Than $5 Billion Needed to Address Internet Access Gaps

Schools need help from the federal government to prepare millions of U.S. students for remote learning this fall and beyond.




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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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Remote Learning Problems During Coronavirus Prompt Resignation of Big District Tech Leader

The top technology official for Virginia's Fairfax County schools resigned after the district struggled to handle some major technical glitches in its e-learning platforms.




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6 Lessons Learned About Remote Learning During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Northshore School District teachers, parents, and students practiced remote learning in advance of the district's closure for two weeks.




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If Coronavirus Gets Worse in the U.S., Online Learning Can Fill the Gaps

Schools and tech companies in the U.S. and abroad have experience deploying virtual learning should a coronavirus emergency arise.




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New Warnings on Screen Time, as Students Nationwide Move to E-Learning

As millions of students nationwide start to settle into virtual learning programs to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a massive new research analysis sounds another note of caution about the effects of exposing significantly more screen time.




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Coronavirus Prompting E-Learning Strategies

Schools and tech companies in the U.S. and abroad have experience deploying virtual learning should a coronavirus emergency arise.




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Virtual Education Dilemma: Scheduled Classroom Instruction vs. Anytime Learning

K-12 teachers are faced with a question many likely thought they'd never have to ask: How often during the school day do my students need to see me and when?




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States' E-Learning Directives Pivot for the Long Haul

States are adjusting the policies and strategies designed for short- term remote instruction—like snow day plans—to support students for the rest of the school year.




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Coronavirus: Social distancing to continue in schools when they gradually reopen

EDUCATION Secretary John Swinney does not expect schools to reopen overnight as he stressed they would only do so when it was safe for public health.




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Neil Mackay: Scotland’s handling of schools in lockdown is a national disgrace

THE teacher had four pupils yesterday. Just four pupils out of a class of 33 took part in virtual online lockdown lessons.




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Coronavirus: Fears universities could be merged if they don't embrace new normal

SCOTLAND’S universities must play their part in adapting to the “new normal” amid warnings that institutions could be forced to merge in return for government support.




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Home school resources: The Beano online, Glasgow Science Centre and Michael Rosen's beetles

Everyone who knows anything about education seems to now be running a livestream from their room, and the explosion of home-schooling resources can be enough to send a busy parent into lockdown meltdown. That's why we've created a check-list of some of the books and sites that could help. It’s not all about BBC Bitesize and the Khan Academy – it can be all the more fun when you go a little off the beaten path.




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Coronavirus: Schools in Wales could reopen in June, first minister says

Schools in Wales could be allowed to reopen their doors next month in a phased approach, the first minister has said.




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Coronavirus in Scotland: Schools not set to fully re-open “in the foreseeable future”

THE SCOTTISH Government “does not consider it likely” that schools will fully re-open “in the foreseeable future” - while working from home is “likely to persist as part of the new normal”.




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Coronavirus: Edinburgh nursery projects in doubt as construction company in administration

FIVE new nursery extensions being built at schools across Edinburgh have been thrown into doubt after the company building the facilities entered administration.




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How One District Is Raising Math Rigor and Achievement for Students of Color

The Long Beach, Calif., school district is deploying a multifaceted strategy to put more students of color in high-level math courses and help them succeed.




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Is Your School Affirming Institutional Racism During Black History Month?

One particularly tense staff meeting helped educator Robert Parker rethink how his school celebrated Black History Month.




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Are GreatSchools Ratings Making Segregation Worse?

With more than 40 million unique visitors a year, GreatSchools.org is a wildly popular source of information on K-12 schools. Though the site has added more factors and nuance to how it rates schools, researchers argue that it’s exacerbating already existing patterns of segregation.




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Quiz Yourself: What Does Census Data Tell Us About Education in the U.S.?

Quiz yourself: What do census statistics reveal about school enrollment, classroom diversity, and education outcomes, and how could the 2020 Census impact school services?




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White Parents Say They Value Integrated Schools. Their Actions Speak Differently

A pair of new studies find that, when given a choice, white parents tend to send their children to schools that are predominantly white.




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Why Do Schools Hang On to Discriminatory Dress Codes?

School dress codes are clashing with students, parents, and researchers who see the rules and their enforcement as rife with racism and sexism. Some school leaders say the codes are important for safety and teaching kids to comply.




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Culturally Responsive Teaching Is Promising. But There's a Pressing Need for More Research

The evidence that culturally responsive teaching can fix the nation's schools for children of color is promising, but woefully incomplete, writes Heather C. Hill.




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Hidden Segregation Within Schools Is Tracked in New Study

When schools reduce racial segregation between schools, racial isolation within the classes inside those schools goes up, according to an analysis of 20 years of North Carolina data.




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Still Mostly White and Female: New Federal Data on the Teaching Profession

Here are five takeaways on the teaching profession from the newly released 2017-18 National Teacher and Principal Survey.




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Could the Next Strike in Education Be Against the Teachers' Union?

The staff union for the National Education Association is threatening to strike over contract negotiations.




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Blaming Unions for Bad Schools

Blaming teachers unions for all the ills afflicting public schools does not stand up to scrutiny.




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Unions Are Barrier to Better Teachers

To the Editor: Education Week Teacher blogger Nancy Flanagan recently wrote about how some states require a higher score on state certification tests for teacher-licensing exams—which makes it "unreasonably difficult" to get into teaching—while others eliminate licensing requirements to fill classr.




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Stop Writing That Obituary for Teachers' Unions. We're Not Going Anywhere

In the face of well-funded opposition to organized labor, teachers will not be silenced, writes NEA President Lily Eskelsen García.




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With Onslaught of Emails and Ads, Conservative Groups Push Teachers to Drop Their Unions

Within days of the Supreme Court’s decision to abolish union fees for nonmembers, conservative groups—including ones with ties to Ed. Secretary Betsy DeVos—launched email, social media, and billboard campaigns to try to convince teachers not to join their unions.




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Teachers Are Organizing. But What About Teachers' Unions?

As teacher take the lead in protests over pay, unions face an uncertain future, writes Berkeley sociologist Bruce Fuller.




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For Educators Vying for State Office, Teachers' Union Offers 'Soup to Nuts' Campaign Training

In the aftermath of this spring's teacher protests, more educators are running for state office—and the National Education Association is seizing on the political moment.




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After Janus Ruling, Teachers Are Suing for Return of Fees They've Paid Their Unions

"This lawsuit will enable teachers like me to recover the agency fees that we were wrongly forced to pay against our will," said one of the plaintiffs.




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'This Road Just Got a Lot Harder': Teachers' Unions Hit With New Round of Lawsuits

In the wake of the 'Janus' Supreme Court case, teachers' unions are facing more than a dozen legal challenges backed by right-leaning groups that could further dampen their membership numbers and finances.




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For Teachers' Unions to Survive, It's Time to Go Positive for Students

Whether Janus will be a death blow or a turning point for unions depends on what they do now, writes Paul Reville.




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Are Teachers' Unions on the Brink of Demise?

With the Janus case looming before the Supreme Court, teachers' unions are knocking on doors to try to boost membership and mitigate financial loss.




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Conservative Group Expands Push to Get Teachers to Leave Their Unions

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is partnering with think tanks and advocacy groups across the country in a campaign encouraging public employees to consider dropping their union memberships.




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The Teachers' Unions Have a Charter School Dilemma

With the first charter school strike in the books—and teachers coming out victorious—experts say both unions and charter schools may need to rethink how they’ve long operated.




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Unions Must Go Beyond Advocacy




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Teachers' Unions

Teachers who do not belong to their unions see value in the organizations but still say they would opt out of paying mandatory fees if given the choice, finds a new survey.




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Justices Decline Challenge to Exclusive Public-Employee Union Representation

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case that held the potential to deal a further blow to public-employee unions after last year's "Janus" decision.




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Teachers' Unions

Efforts to unionize teachers in charter schools are picking up in a handful of states, and counter efforts by school administrators to tamp them down often backfire, according to a study by the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education.




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National Principals' Union Chases More Members

A national union for principals is campaigning to increase its membership, drafting in part off the momentum created by the surge in educator activism over the past two years.




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How Teacher Strikes Could Factor in 2020 Elections

The recent Chicago Teachers Union strike drew attention from Democratic presidential candidates in Illinois, a state won by Democrats in the last White House contest. For 2020, it's possible we could see a twist on that story: big-city teacher strikes in states with less predictable outcomes.




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Endorsements Still Touchy for Teachers' Unions in Presidential Election Season

Both the AFT and the NEA vowed to engage their members more deeply this year in deciding who to back for the White House. How well have they done?




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Coronavirus: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland outline lockdown 'changes' ahead of PM’s announcement

The UK looks likely to operate under slightly different lockdown rules next week after announcements by the leaders of the Welsh and Scottish Governments suggested deviation between nations.




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UK Government misses coronavirus testing target for sixth day in a row

The Government has defended missing its key 100,000 target for coronavirus tests for the sixth day in a row, highlighting “daily fluctuations” in availability.




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Boris Johnson: UK needs 'same spirit of national endeavour' to defeat virus as WW2 veterans showed to defeat Hitler

BORIS Johnson has said Britain needs the "same spirit of national endeavour" to defeat the coronavirus as Second World War veterans demonstrated to topple Adolf Hitler.




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Coronavirus in Scotland: Testing strategy to be reviewed amid care worker reports

THE SCOTTISH Government is reviewing its Covid-19 testing strategy after the Deputy First Minster has been left “frustrated” by reports home care workers have been told to travel to the other side of Scotland for tests.