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Special Education Bias Rule Put on Hold for Two Years by DeVos Team

As expected, the Education Department has delayed a rule that would require states to take a standardized approach in evaluating districts for minority bias in special education.




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Education Programs Would Be Spared Under Trump Administration's Green Card Proposal

While the Trump administration proposal would not strip student eligibility for Head Start, the federal school lunch program, or the Individual with Disabilities Education Act, it could still affect millions of school-aged children who live with immigrant parents.




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Title IX Rule Details How K-12 Schools Must Address Sexual Harassment, Assault

The Education Department outlines when and how schools must respond to reports of sexual assault and harassment under the Trump administration's interpretation of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination.




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What Are Your Best Classroom-Management Tips?

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your best classroom-management tips?




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I Tried a Flexible-Seating Classroom. Here's What I Learned

Experimenting with new types and arrangements of furniture can radically change your students' classroom experience, writes Julia Cin.




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Classroom Management 'Is All About Relationships'

Dr. Debbie Silver, Dr. PJ Caposey, Serena Pariser, Timothy Hilton, Dr. Beth Gotcher, Paula Mellom, Rebecca Hixon, and Jodi Weber offer their commentaries on how best to handle classroom management.




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'Classroom Management Is About Being Proactive'

Cindy Garcia, Gianna Cassetta, Amanda Koonlaba, Ed.S., Chelonnda Seroyer, Dennis Griffin Jr., Janice Wyatt-Ross, Barry Saide, and Dr. Vance Austin contribute their classroom-management suggestions.




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TikTok: Powerful Teaching Tool or Classroom Management Nightmare?

The video-sharing platform is a huge hit with teens and some teachers are beginning to integrate it into their lessons. But cyberbullying and data privacy are big concerns, experts say.




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How Teachers Are Talking to Students About the Coronavirus

As the coronavirus spreads across the United States, teachers are put in the hard spot of educating students about prevention without scaring them.




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Do You Have to 'Love' Every Student? And What If You Don't?

Assuring a positive student-teacher relationship is easier said than done. Here’s what veteran educators advise about how to make that relationship work, and what to do when things fall apart.




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Remember, Online Learning Isn't the Only Way to Learn Remotely

It will take more than online tools to activate student learning during a school closure. Kate Ehrenfeld Gardoqui offers five sample assignments.




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Flexible Seating: Collaboration Catalyst or Classroom Disaster?

Popularized by social media, new classroom arrangements are all the rage in K-12. But experts and educators caution there is more to it than just moving desks around.




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I've Changed How I Grade My Students. You Should, Too

My job as a teacher is to help students learn, not to use extrinsic motivation to get them to work, writes Miriam Plotinsky.




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My 5 Basic Rules for Talking to Young Students About Coronavirus

Students are understandably anxious about COVID-19. Teachers must address those fears in age-appropriate and educational ways, writes 4th grade teacher Ivy Higgins.




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Don't Blame Teachers for Selling Their Lesson Plans. Blame the System That Makes It Necessary

Schools can't even afford to hire enough teachers, so why are we surprised that teachers are turning to a website for resources? asks Kat Tipton.




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Praise Seen as Effective Classroom-Management Tool

When teachers use more praise and fewer reprimands in the classroom, it seems to help students stay on-task and behave better, according to a new study.




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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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National Survey Tracks Impact of Coronavirus on Schools: 10 Key Findings

The EdWeek Research Center is conducting twice-monthly surveys of teachers and district leaders across the country to help the K-12 system navigate these unprecedented times.




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Virtual Teaching: Skill of the Future? Or Not So Much?

Leaders in some districts say remote teaching will now be a skill they will build even more in their existing teacher corps. Others are more skeptical.




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Loving Our Students From a Distance

During this hard and scary time, when our students need their teachers the most, suddenly they can’t be there in person. Here are some ways teacher Justin Minkel has found to keep that connection virtually.




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Wealthier Enclaves Breaking Away From School Districts

Over two years, 27 communities have split from their home districts, and the new districts are mostly wealthier, whiter, and more property-rich than the ones left behind.




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In Alabama Case, Desegregation History Defeats District's Secession Effort

The appeals court put the brakes on a predominantly white community's racially tinged efforts to secede from a larger school system.




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What You Can Do in the Face of School Segregation

School segregation may feel intractable, but there are steps school and district leaders can take. Michele Shannon would know.




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In Eight States, Public Schools Are Named for Segregationists

A growing movement to shed Confederate names on public schools has drawn attention in recent years. But public schools named in honor of segregationists haven't drawn the same level of scrutiny.




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Is There a Path to Desegregated Schools?

Racial and economic segregation remains deeply entrenched in American schools. Denisa R. Superville considers the six steps one district is taking to change that.




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Bernie Sanders' Education Plan: Unions and Desegregation Win, Charters Lose

Bernie Sanders' sweeping vision would establish a $60,000 minimum salary for teachers, while clamping down on charters and boosting efforts to desegregate schools. It's hard to see a lot of it becoming a reality.




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Schools' Racial Makeup Can Sway Disability Diagnoses

Three new studies show that a web of factors appear to influence how often black and Hispanic children are identified for special education compared to similar white peers.




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The Splintering of Wealthy Areas From School Districts Is Speeding Up

The school funding group EdBuild finds neighborhood attempts to secede popping up in more school districts, with racial and economic isolation increasing in their wake.




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In Campaign Season, a New Look at Busing

An exchange between two of the top-tier candidates for president highlighted how segregation in education could prove to be a potent issue in the Democratic Party's 2020 primary.




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A Losing Fight to Keep Schools Desegregated

Few districts have done as much as Wake County, N.C., to keep schools racially and socioeconomically diverse, but’s it’s a battle the school board says it has been losing. Can it reverse the trend?




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Schools With Segregationists' Names: Where They Are and Who They're Named for

Education Week found 22 public schools named after politicians who signed the Southern Manifesto opposing school integration after the 1954 Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision.




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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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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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Darius L. Swann, Father in Case That Led to Landmark Busing Decision, Dies at 95

The Presbyterian minister's efforts in 1964 to send his son to an integrated school in Charlotte, N.C., led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding busing as a desegregation tool.




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No race balance, but desegregation ends for Georgia district




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Desegregation Order Lifted on Georgia School District in Coronavirus Hotspot

Dougherty County, a largely black school district in an region heavily affected by coronavirus, is no longer subject to desegregation orders first imposed in 1963.




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Special Education Reforms at Center of New Settlement Agreements

The Berkeley, Calif. school district and the state of Ohio have said they will do more to provide services and to ensure students with disabilities are educated in inclusive settings.




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Michael Casserly, Longstanding Urban Schools Advocate, to Pass the Baton

Michael Casserly, who has led the Council of the Great City Schools since 1992, will step down next year and become an adviser to the group.




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Obituary: Lynn Faulds Wood, consumer advocate who succeeded in changing laws

Lynn Faulds Wood, Journalist and TV presenter




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Obituary: Hamish Wilson, pioneering radio drama producer and a gifted character actor

Hamish Wilson, radio producer and actor




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Obituary: Brian Dennehy, imposing actor whose range spanned grizzled cops and Willy Loman

Born: July 9, 1938;




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Obituary: Jill Gascoine, actress who played the first female police detective on British television

Jill Gascoine, actress and novelist




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Obituary: George Forfar, Principal Teacher of English who inspired pupils and colleagues alike

George Forfar: An appreciation




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Obituary: Sir Eric Anderson, who had key role in education of three Prime Ministers

An appreciation by Maxwell Macleod




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An original of the airwaves, with a joke for every occasion

Lou Grant




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Obituary: Saroj Lal, inspirational figure in the long fight for fairness for all

Saroj Lal




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Obituary: Alan Gray: A man whose veins ran with whisky

Alan Gray – An Appreciation




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Lord Armstrong: Archetypal insider who inspired Yes Minister character

Lord Armstrong of Ilminster




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Internet Rallies Around Alleged Maryville Sexual-Assault Victim

A seven-month investigation into an alleged sexual assault by a high school football player in a small Missouri town has set the internet ablaze.




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NLRB Rejects Northwestern Football Players' Attempt to Unionize

The National Labor Relations Board unanimously declined jurisdiction Monday in the case involving Northwestern University football players attempting to unionize.