Archive for September 2014
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September 30, 2014
Yoga benefits the whole student
(Calif.) What many children’s yoga instructors call the “frog pose” tones young legs, increases hamstring flexibility and improves heart health. It’s also just one of a number of poses a student may learn during yoga sessions springing up in classrooms across the country.
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September 30, 2014
Brown wraps up ed bills, leaves some heads shaking
(Calif.) Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have made kindergarten mandatory while at the same time signing one intended to show the overwhelming boost that optional year gives kids headed to first grade.
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September 29, 2014
Nation’s highest stakes testing set for this spring
(Fla.) Under state law, students in each grade will take for the first time cumulative end-of-year tests in every subject this spring, including electives. And their scores will factor into their teachers’ pay.
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September 29, 2014
Results-driven accountability ups the ante for achievement in special ed
Academic performance now holds equal weight with regulatory compliance in federal evaluations of programs for students with disabilities (SWD). This shift in policy will require new emphases in common practices.
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September 29, 2014
Adding a civics lesson to Nov. 4 election events
(Calif.) With a general election on the horizon, top voter and education officials are urging public school administrators to use the event as a teachable civics moment for their students – a subject lawmakers both here and across the country want to see brought back to life in K-12 curriculum.
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September 26, 2014
School leadership shaky at the top in Utah
(Utah) Leadership of Utah’s 600,000 public school students is very much up in the air following a federal judge’s ruling that the selection process for new members of the state board is unconstitutional.
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September 26, 2014
New tool for evaluating school climate
(Calif.) A biennial state survey of junior high students and teachers can serve as a valid indicator of middle school climate, according to new federal analysis released this week.
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September 25, 2014
Senate delay of UN disability treaty is inexcusable
In a country formerly on the vanguard for equality and optimal access for people with disabilities, our failure to ratify the treaty supporting their rights is an affront to one billion around the globe.
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September 25, 2014
Lawmaker wants Pa. teachers to be armed
(Pa.) A Pennsylvania lawmaker is pushing for his state to become the eighth in the nation allowing public school teachers to carry guns to work.
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September 24, 2014
Brown shoots down charter boundary restriction
(Calif.) An attempt by the Legislature to limit a charter school’s ability to locate outside the borders of its authorizing school district has been struck down by Gov. Jerry Brown.
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