Archive for December 2013 - Page 2
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December 12, 2013
Teacher retirements held steady during recession
(Calif.) Worries that an improving economy might provoke a mass exodus of retirement-age teachers throughout California appear to be unfounded, according to new research released Thursday.
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December 12, 2013
Brown considers new restrictions on LCFF money
(Calif.) The Brown administration appears to be still struggling with how much flexibility to give schools with spending new state funds aimed at the educationally disadvantaged.
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December 12, 2013
SI&A’s K-12 attendance program makes school leaders’ top 100 list
School Innovations & Achievement’s signature product, Attention2Attendance® , was named this month as one of the top tools nationwide for helping K-12 leaders do their jobs more effectively.
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December 11, 2013
Smarter Balanced tests ease access to disabled
(Wash.) Among the improvements anticipated with the new Smarter Balanced assessment system, set for rollout in many states next year, are a variety of embedded accommodations for students with disabilities.
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December 11, 2013
U.S. charter school enrollment up 80 percent since 2008
In its eighth annual report on the status of the charter movement in the United States, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools says that the alternative system remains the fastest growing sector in public education, increasing by by an estimated 225,000 students during the 2012-13 school year.
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December 10, 2013
Teacher prep programs get failing grade for classroom management
(D.C.) Though full of enthusiasm and energy, new teachers often find themselves unprepared to deal with the hundreds of decisions they face each day, despite the fact that research has shown clearly what works when it comes to classroom management, a new study released Tuesday shows.
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December 10, 2013
Code initiative seeks to put IT learning into mainstream
(Calif.) In just its first day, a week-long global initiative designed to promote computer science education drew 1.3 million students who participated by writing 40 million lines of code, organizers said.
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December 09, 2013
Schools and guns remain at issue, a year after Sandy Hook
As the nation turns later this week to acknowledge the one-year anniversary of the mass killing at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary, clashes over school safety and Second Amendment rights are becoming increasingly common.
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December 09, 2013
Static no more, textbook publishers go digital
(Mass.) After 181 years as a privately held company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt made its initial public offering last month with a stock price that soared 32 percent on the first day – a striking illustration of the pivot old media textbooks publishers are making to the new world of digital learning.
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December 06, 2013
Bloomberg’s truancy program wins praise from researchers
(N.Y.) The largest, most comprehensive campaign to reduce chronic absenteeism among K-12 students undertaken by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg three years ago delivered significant positive results, according to new analysis.
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