When Ms. Frizzle Returns, What Will She Say About Modern-Day Education? - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

Actress and comedian Kate McKinnon will voice Ms. Frizzle in the reboot of "The Magic School Bus." But what would the new Ms. Frizzle have to say about Betsy DeVos and contemporary education issues?

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Phishing Scam Targets School Employees' Information - Digital Education - Education Week

The IRS is warning school districts to watch out for official-looking emails that ask for copies of employees' W-2 forms.

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Autopsy of inBloom Sparks Old Debates About Sharing Student Data - Education Week

Three years after the demise of the education data company, the ed-tech sector is still struggling to make sense of what went wrong, and how to address persistent data-sharing challenges.

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FCC Yanks Report on E-Rate Success - Education Week

The FCC rescinded a report showing its own program has helped spur falling bandwidth prices and new access to high-speed broadband for schools and libraries.

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FCC Alters 'Lifeline' Program for Subsidized Broadband - Education Week

Following a policy reversal by the FCC, nine companies will no longer be able to participate in a federal program that offers subsidized internet access to low-income Americans.

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Phishing Scammers Targeting Schools - Education Week

The Internal Revenue Service is warning school business officials to beware of a phishing scam targeting schools' payroll or human-resource departments in an attempt to have them release employees' confidential information, according to the Association of School Business Officials International.

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Why Schools Must Engender Moral and Ethical Behavior - Leadership 360 - Education Week

The job of teaching ethics now belongs to everyone who comes in contact with children.

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Idaho Legislators Strip Climate Change Language in New Science Standards - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

The Republican-led state House Education Committee would only approve the standards after references to the impact of human on global warming were removed.

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DeVos-Backed Company Questioned on ADHD, Autism - Education Week

President Trump's nominee to head the U.S. Department of Education is a major backer of a company claiming its neurofeedback technology can "fix" autism and ADHD.

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Scientists Take on New Roles in K-12 Classrooms - Education Week

The Next Generation Science Standards are opening the door for new teacher-scientist collaborations.

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Regulations Are Strangling Charter Schools - Education Week

If confirmed as ed. secretary, Betsy DeVos could gut the regulations that are choking charter schools, writes Jeanne Allen.

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State of the States: Alaska, Hawaii, Mo., Nev., R.I. - Education Week

Here are summaries of recent annual addresses by governors around the country.

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DeVos' Investment Stakes Raise Democratic Concerns - Education Week

The confirmation process for education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos drilled deep into what a letter from some senators called her "complicated network of investment entities, assets, and trusts."

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Computer Science Draws Undergrads With Disabilities - Education Week

Students with disabilities are as likely as typically developing students to enter science and engineering fields in college, according to new data from the National Science Foundation.

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Ed-Tech Skeptic Larry Cuban Finds New Perspective - Education Week

After three decades of writing about the classroom limitations of technology, the Stanford professor talks about his observations of some promising approaches.

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Personal Privacy Is a Concern for All Tech Users - Reinventing K-12 Learning - Education Week

How can technology users take control of their own digital information?

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Trump Appoints E-Rate Critic to Lead the FCC - Education Week

Ajit Pai is a determined critic of recent decisions to increase funding for the E-rate program and of efforts to protect "net neutrality."

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Author Interview: 'Students At the Center' - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda agreed to answer a few questions about their new book, "Students at the Center: Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind."

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AltSchool Joins Tech Companies Filing Brief Against Trump Immigration Order - Digital Education - Education Week

Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are among 97 leading technology companies to contest the legality of President Trump's executive order limiting immigration.

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New Autopsy of inBloom Re-ignites Old Debates About Sharing Student Data - Digital Education - Education Week

Three years after inBloom's demise, the ed-tech sector is still struggling to make sense of what went wrong - and how to address persistent data-sharing challenges.

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Where Does Homework Fit Into the Big Picture? - Leadership 360 - Education Week

No matter whether homework is the opener of the conversation or some other topic is catalytic to a reflection on current practice how things fit into the bigger picture has to be considered.

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Video Invites Teachers to Turn 'Deflategate' Into STEM Lesson - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has put together a lesson that teachers can use to show their students how science, technology, engineering, and math relate to real life.

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Rural school advocates praise Walker plan, look for more - Education Week

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Hawaii teachers win $25,000 Milken Educator Award - Education Week

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Missouri governor outlines $27.6 billion budget plan - Education Week

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The Patriots and the "Unpopular Stuff" of Excellence - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week

As the Patriots prepare to play for the Super Bowl on Sunday, it seems especially timely to reflect again on some critical insights education reformers can gather from professional football.

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Spotlight on Teaching Literacy - Education Week

As digital technology transforms literacy instruction, educators are finding new ways to build avid readers. In this Spotlight, learn how schools are combining print and digital texts to develop reading skills, how educators are encouraging literacy instruction in every subject, and how teachers can differentiate supports for individual students.

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Delaware High Schools Could Be Required to Offer Computer Science Course - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

A bill under consideration in the state senate would require all public high schools in the state to offer at least one computer science course by the 2020-21 school year.

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Personalized Learning and the 'Internet of Things:' Q&A - Digital Education - Education Week

A new center at the University of Southern California brings together education and engineering to research sensors-based networks in the classroom.

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Betsy DeVos Used Cherry-Picked Graduation Rates for Cyber Charters - Digital Education - Education Week

In written responses to a key Democratic senator, the nominee for education secretary used those figures to argue that full-time online charter schools are a valuable option for families.

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5 Tips for Successful Tech Infusion in Your Classes - Work in Progress - Education Week Teacher

The same way teaching is an art and not just anyone can do it, teaching with tech takes knowledge and creativity and a willingness to take risks in order to explore learning differently.

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Response: Understanding the Benefits of a Student's Home Language - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Rosa Isiah, Tan Huynh, Karen Nemeth, Sarah Thomas contribute their ideas on the role of English Language Learners' home language in school.

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Students With Disabilities as Likely to Enter Science Fields, New Fed Data Show - Inside School Research - Education Week

They were slightly more likely than students without a disability to attend two-year rather than four-year colleges.

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The Unintended Consequences of Innovation - EdTech Researcher - Education Week

By helping students develop empathy, it may be possible to prevent the negative consequences of innovation, like fake news and online bullying.

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Rural Mississippi District Personalizes Learning for Teachers and Students - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week

Dr. Philip Hickman, Superintendent of the Columbus Municipal School District in rural Mississippi, shares how Columbus is proof that personalized learning and innovative education can happen anywhere.

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Democrats Raise Additional Questions About DeVos Financial Disclosure - Politics K-12 - Education Week

As a Senate committee nears a vote on Betsy DeVos's nomination as U.S. secretary of education, several Democrats on the panel continue to press concerns about the nominee's financial disclosure and ethics agreement.

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Despite push to scrap cursive writing, schools stick with it - Education Week

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'Alternative Facts': A Wake-Up Call for Educators - Leadership 360 - Education Week

Let's proceed as if it is a good thing to be compassionate and kind as a person or nation. Those qualities are not mutually exclusive from strength.

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