Apprenticeship Program Offers College Credit, Paychecks, and Diplomas

Colorado has launched a program to train 20,000 apprentices in the next decade. Students attend high school three days a week, and work at paying jobs two days a week in information technology, advanced manufacturing, and other sectors. Over three years, students will earn both their diplomas and some college credit, along with workplace skills. Colorado has modeled the program after Switzerland’s widely respected apprenticeship system, but some activists doubt that U.S. employers and high schools will make the commitment necessary for the program to work on a large scale here.

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Student Research Looks at Sleep Habits After Technology Roll-Out - Inside School Research - Education Week

National Science Teachers Association project shows the potential to teach through engaging students in research.

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Ed Tech Products Should Make Educators More Efficient - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12 - Education Week

In this piece, we will discuss how one forward-thinking company has created a single sign-on solution that is helping schools optimize digital learning so that all of us can spend more time learning, less time logging in.

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Education Secy DeVos uses her private plane for work travel - Education Week

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Nevada Recommits Funding for State 1-to-1 Program - Digital Education - Education Week

Nevada plans to push forward with their state-funded 1-to-1 program after an encouraging independent review study of the program's impact.

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Personalized Learning a Big Challenge in High School Redesign, RAND Finds - Digital Education - Education Week

A new RAND evaluation of Opportunity by Design high schools found barriers to customizing instruction and implementing "mastery-based" progressions.

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Carol Dweck Wins $4 Million Research Prize for Research on 'Growth Mindsets' - Inside School Research - Education Week

The researcher plans to use the prize money to perfect curriculum materials for teachers who want to help their students develop a belief in their own ability to improve their learning.

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10 Current and Emerging Trends in Adult Learning - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week

We live in a world where the unexpected is the norm, and the only thing we can really be sure of in the future is that change will occur rapidly. What does this mean for adult learning? Here are 10 current and emerging trends.

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5 Math Technology Tools to Engage Students - Global Learning - Education Week

Five interactive technology tools for the math classroom.

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How Houston Got Its Schools Back Online After the Hurricane - Education Week

The Houston school district’s technology chief, Lenny Schad, shares lessons about how his 216,000-student system responded to Hurricane Harvey, which besieged the community.

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Obama Surprises Computer Science Educators on Conference Call - Digital Education - Education Week

"I can't wait to see the amazing things that you're going to build," the former president told 1,000 teachers, students, and supporters on a call organized by the CSforAll Consortium.

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Schools Making 'Extraordinary Progress' With High-Speed Internet Access, Analysis Finds - Education Week

Ninety-four percent of school districts in the nation are meeting targets for web connectivity, three years after federal officials overhauled the E-Rate program.

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When Leaders Lead Their Schools Like Ben Zander Conducts Symphonies - Leadership 360 - Education Week

We need leaders, like conductors, who lead by empowering those s/he leads.

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Response: New Teachers Must Create a 'Balance' - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Cindi Rigsbee, Carol Pelletier Radford, Dr. Jenny Grant Rankin, Jennie Farnell and Ken Lindblom share their advice to new teachers.

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In Hurricanes' Aftermath, Digital Tools Help Learning Continue - Education Week

School leaders and teachers in districts upended by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have relied on Twitter, Facebook, and learning platforms to get messages and academic lessons to families and students.

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Straight Up Conversation: Teach to One CEO Joel Rose - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week

Today, I chat with Joel Rose, the CEO of Teach to One, discussing what it is, how it works, how horse-and-buggy assessment can stymie this kind of instruction, and where the venture is going.

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Concerns raised for Texas special ed students after Harvey - Education Week

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Iowa teachers try 'flipped' classroom teaching method - Education Week

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Democrats hope to use charter school campaign against Baker - Education Week

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Response: Mistakes new Teachers Make & How to Avoid Them - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Michael Janatovich, Sarah Thomas, Roxanna Elden, Kristi Mraz, Christine Hertz, and Julia Thompson explore common mistakes made by new teachers and how to avoid them.

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Texas Teachers Scramble to Rebuild Classrooms Destroyed by Harvey - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

Classrooms were destroyed for many teachers in areas affected by Hurricane Harvey. Now, those teachers are trying to rebuild to create a safe and welcoming space for students.

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EXCHANGE: Virtual classroom opens world of possibilities - Education Week

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Education as a Civic Question: A Final Note From Bridging Differences - Bridging Differences - Education Week

In their final post to end Bridging Differences' decade-long run, Deborah Meier and Harry Boyte urge readers to put the energy, talents, wisdom, and hard work of "we the people," young as well as old, at the center of creating a 21st-century education system.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Help Teachers Find the Right Lesson Plans? - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

The IBM Foundation has launched a website called Teacher Advisor with Watson, which uses artificial intelligence to find high-quality elementary math resources and lessons.

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Walker OK with budget changes to win Senate support - Education Week

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Coding, Robotics, Makerspaces Poised to Grow in Schools, Report Says - Education Week

Researchers consulted 61 education and technology experts to forecast the five-year impact of emerging technologies in K-12 schools.

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Betsy DeVos Wants to Rethink 'Mundane Malaise' of Traditional Schools - Politics K-12 - Education Week

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos wants teachers and school leaders to move past the blackboards-and-desks model of K-12 schooling, with an eye towards better serving individual kids.

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Districts Using Social Media, Digital Tools to Keep Education Afloat After Hurricanes - Digital Education - Education Week

In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, school districts are using digital communication tools and online learning options to update and connect with parents, students and teachers.

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Idaho Pays $3.5 Million to Settle FCC School Broadband Claims - Education Week

Idaho has repaid the Federal Communications Commission $3.5 million as part of a settlement with the federal agency over claims that the state misused more than $14 million by putting it toward an illegally awarded contract.

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Its Time for Teacher Evaluation and Its Only September! - Leadership 360 - Education Week

How many can say that through the observation and evaluation process teaching and learning has improved and students were the beneficiaries?

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Virtual Exchange as Career Preparation - Global Learning - Education Week

How online, collaborative, global projects can prepare students with skills needed for employment.

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15 Dimensions of Personalized Learning - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week

It is easy to think of personalization simply as differentiated instruction, but a full commitment to supporting individual learning journeys has many dimensions such as these 15 we've identified.

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Research "Proves" - Very Little - EdTech Researcher - Education Week

When reading articles that reference empirical research, we need to examine how the author makes assumptions before considering the study as "proof."

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Obama surprises students with visit to DC school - Education Week

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Brand Ambassadors in the Classroom - Walt Gardner's Reality Check - Education Week

Recruiting teachers to promote products in the classroom raises conflict-of-interest issues.

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Leaders Can Avoid Burnout by Taking Care of Themselves - Leadership 360 - Education Week

As we continue to search for what affects student achievement consider the effect of leaders who are running on empty.

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How a Florida School District Prepared for Multiple Hurricane Irma Scenarios - District Dossier - Education Week

In Orange County, Fla.'s school system, leaders have been studying weather models for days, and ensuring there's enough fuel, food, and money in the bank for emergency spending and making payroll.

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'Disrupting Thinking': An Interview with Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst agreed to answer a few questions about their new book, "Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters."

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New York Times Magazine Education Issue Leads Back-to-School Coverage Flurry - Education and the Media - Education Week

September is a time for enterprising magazine coverage about education issues, including in The Times, Harper's, and The Nation.

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Online Public School Enrolls Private School Students. Is That Legal? - Charters & Choice - Education Week

To stem enrollment losses, a school district in Southern California created a virtual school and recruited Catholic schools to enroll their students in it, reports the Los Angeles Times.

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Do Perks for Teachers Compromise Their Integrity? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

Schools and teachers are the objects of commerce and policy, not co-creators or idea-generators or genuine partners. We get "gifts" from business, if we are producing what they need.

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Transforming High Schools: It Takes More than a TV Show - Learning Deeply - Education Week

A star-studded television special highlighting promising school designs is exciting, but true transformation will need the efforts of hundreds of thousands of educators, working together.

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'They're Taking Our Kids': Teen Gun Violence Is Plaguing Cities Big and Small - Education Week

A new analysis of gun violence data reveals there's one city that far and away leads the country in its rate of shootings among young people under 18—Wilmington, Del.

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10 Habits of Tech-Savvy Schools - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12 - Education Week

Technology changes so rapidly that it can be hard for schools to keep up. Is your school riding the wave of change or is it drowning?

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Congressional Support for a Call to Make Federal Data Collection Smarter, Safer - Inside School Research - Education Week

Can building research and data privacy find bipartisan support in Congress?

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Students' Scores Inch Up on ACT Exam - Education Week

This year's gains were especially notable for Hispanic students, whose college-readiness scores rose even as they took the exam in greater numbers.

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The NY Times Tackled Teachers and Ed Tech. Social Media Responded. - Digital Education - Education Week

Technology companies courting influential teachers to promote their products has raised ethics concerns - and the practice has attracted critical media attention.

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Digitizing Traditional Teaching Isn't Innovative - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12 - Education Week

Digital technology is supposed to allow students to learn in entirely new ways, bringing new innovations to every classroom. But this isn't always the case. In fact, many EdTech programs and tools are simply digitizing traditional teaching--and it isn't innovation.

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From Rescues to Relief, Principals' Response to Harvey Aided By Ed Tech - Digital Education - Education Week

From Facebook to Google to a popular text-messaging app, principals have used ed tech to support colleagues dealing with Hurricane Harvey.

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Cellphones, Apps Power Learning for Syrian Refugees - Education Week

United Nations agencies have facilitated ed-tech programs for students in refugee camps worldwide, but the Syrian conflict has drawn an especially high level of involvement.

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