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News, Resources & Essential Information for 21st Century Educators & School Leaders
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Children are capable of understanding science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts when they are less than a year old but these skills must be developed intentionally, according to a new report released by The Center for Childhood Creativity (CCC) at the Bay Area Discovery Museum.
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Researchers say various types of play teach children important concepts relating to STEM: science, technology, engineering, and math. 
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Small changes in the way we interact with children can make an impression on them.
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Currently, Curriki is "not recommended," while Edmodo gets a "use with caution," and EduTone receives a "use responsibly." These are the simpler privacy ratings that Common Sense Media has begun using for the education technology apps it covers on its education websites.
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The goal, according to Bill Fitzgerald, the non-profit's Privacy Initiative director: "to make privacy and security more accessible."
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Improving the world through disruptive innovation.
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It isn’t hard to imagine an ideal world in which all student data flows seamlessly and securely between software applications: a concept known as data interoperability.
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Learning data gives you insight into what students know, where they struggle, and how they learn best. Discover 4 key questions learning data can answer.
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K-12 education has been "data-driven" for years: data-driven to nowhere. However, thanks to new technologies, the effective use of real-time data can give educators tremendous insight into student learning and growth to allow the creation a truly personalized learning experience for every student.
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Designed to be a “data story,” the site provides such information as the most common languages spoken by ELLs, current ELL populations in districts, and how likely ELL students are to attend schools with large concentrations of ELLs.
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The U.S. Department of Education has created a new interactive website designed to more effectively communicate data about the nation’s English language learners (ELLs) in public schools.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab North America has launched the Education, Technology and Opportunity Innovation Competition in an effort to identify effective technology use and provide examples of how learning can be improved through innovation. The competition asks school networks, education agencies, nonprofits and post-secondary institutions to evaluate their education programs based on technology, especially those focused on disadvantaged students.
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The aim is to look into what technologies work best in education and why, while also helping to improve the ability of the education industry to create and use evidence.
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Part of NWEA’s widely used Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests, the new MAP Reading Fluency assessment focuses on the “learning-to-read” process and uses voice recognition technology to collect data on an entire class of students in about 20 minutes, the developers say.
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“There’s a real serious need for change in how we develop our leaders in the district,” said Education Austin union leader Ken Zarifis.
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The Dallas-based Bush Institute is working to improve principal training programs in four school districts, including the Austin Independent School District (AISD), as part of its new School Leadership District Cohort, the Austin American-Statesman reports.
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A Pennsylvania lawmaker wants to fine parents and require them to perform community service if their children get caught bullying others at school. State Rep. Frank Burns' proposed bill gives parents three strikes.
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A Pennsylvania state representative wants to fine parents if their children get caught bullying others at school. The proposed bill gives parents three strikes, after which parents could receive a court citation, pay a fine of up to $500 and/or perform community service. | #education #HIB #K12
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The U.S. secretary of education said states' Every Student Succeeds Act plans aren't ambitious or innovative enough and fail to take full advantage of the law's flexibility.
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School chiefs have not done enough to take advantage of the flexibility offered under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said during the Council of Chief State School Officers legislative conference. "ESSA was enacted partially in response to the widespread calls from state school chiefs -- including many in this room -- to give you the flexibility and opportunity to address your state's unique challenges," she said.
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The changes appear to be in line with the administration's goal of sifting more quickly through the thousands of civil rights complaints the Office for Civil Rights receives each year.
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The Education Department has released revisions to the Office for Civil Rights Case Processing Manual, which will affect how the department investigates discrimination in schools. Department officials say the changes seek to boost efficiency, but some civil rights advocates have expressed concern.
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Why are school systems investing beyond the classroom? Put simply, by integrating more factors that influence students’ lives into their designs, schools stand to boost performance.
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In recent years, new roles have begun to crop up in schools including advocates who support the social side of students’ lives. These emerging roles vary; however, they aim to overcome the enduring structural barriers that separate social supports and academics in our traditional system. These new roles involve coordinating additional student services inside of school and connecting students to more opportunities beyond schools.
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"Beaverton School District's leaders became experts in disaster recovery after a data center meltdown.
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Oregon's Beaverton School District learned the hard way at the start of the school year that it needed an IT disaster recovery plan when administrators found the district's entire data center offline, according to EdTech: Focus on K-12.
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"s states have upgraded their commitment to pre-K education over the past two decades, questions have arisen. Critics argue that program effects are likely to fade out or disappear over time, ...We conclude that some positive effects of a high-quality pre-K program are discernible as late as middle school."
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Eighth graders who attended Oklahoma’s universal pre-K program as 4-year-olds had higher math scores, were more likely to enroll in honors classes, and were less likely to repeat a grade than those who didn’t attend, according to new research from Georgetown University.
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A recent accreditation policy has many colleges -- particularly in rural areas -- struggling to find qualified instructors to teach popular dual-credit courses for high school students.
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As colleges and states scramble to comply with instructor credential rules for dual-credit courses, this is where #eLearning can flourish for high school students.
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A club at Hutchison Elementary School in Herndon, Va., is called Project Hope for a reason.
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What a terrific community policing program...
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Despite the seemingly ever-growing embrace of digital learning in schools, access to the necessary devices remains unequal, with a new report from the Pew Research Center finding that 15 percent of U.S. households with school-age children lack high-speed internet at home.