What's Actually Working in the Classroom? - Education Week

After visiting 200 schools in 50 states, author Ted Dintersmith explores how the most remarkable educators are helping students thrive.

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Tech Counts Webinar: Principals Tackle Classroom Tech Challenges - Digital Education - Education Week

Join us for a 2018 Technology Counts webinar at 2 p.m. today on how principals are approaching the challenges and opportunities around ed tech.

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The Menace of Mechanical Teaching - Teacher-Leader Voices - Education Week Teacher

What is worse than survival mode for teachers? Learn what one award-winning educator says.

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Key Takeaways and Emerging Issues From the Feds' Massive Civil Rights Data Survey - Inside School Research - Education Week

Going forward, here are some of the issues researchers and education advocates will be exploring, as well as some of the problems cropping up in the recently released 2015-16 Civil Rights Data Collection.

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School Librarians are Rockstar Resources - Work in Progress - Education Week Teacher

School librarians are vital to student learning as early as kindergarten. The exposure alone to books and experiencing the atmosphere young can really set up a positive connection to learning in all forms. Libraries are no longer solely quiet places, now they can be makerspaces that invite play and curiosity and librarians are the perfect educators to engage students in the truly exciting nature of learning outside of the typical classroom.

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How Can Districts and States Use ESSA to Bolster STEM and Computer Science? - Politics K-12 - Education Week

The Every Student Succeeds Act doesn't include separate funding for science, technology, engineering, and math. But it does let states to use funding from other programs to bolster those subjects.

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From Pockets of Innovation to Systems of Inspired Learning - EdTech Researcher - Education Week

To move beyond pockets of innovation requires a shared language of pedagogy and a community dedicated to improvement.

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Documentary on College Admissions Tests Scores Pretty High on Some Questions - Education and the Media - Education Week

"The Test & the Art of Thinking" looks at the ACT and SAT through the perspective of admissions officers, tutors, parents, students, and testing experts.

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Principals on Personalized Learning: 8 Takeaways From Ed Week's Exclusive Survey - Digital Education - Education Week

Despite worries and confusion, principals are enthusiastic about personalized learning, according to an exclusive national survey from the Education Week Research Center.

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Personalized Learning and Ensuring That Students Learn the Tedious Stuff - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week

In response to letters on personalized learning by Larry Berger and Joel Rose, Educational Alliance's Jonathan Skolnick raises one of the thorniest questions about the topic: How do we ensure that students in self-directed, customized environments still master skills and content that we think critical, but that they may deem tedious, pointless, and unnecessary?

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I’m an Arizona Teacher. This Is Why I’m Walking Out Today - Education Week

Grossly underpaid teachers are taking drastic action to demand the respectable salaries they deserve, writes Donald R. Sheldon.

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How Better Transcripts Will Improve College Admissions, Employment, and Licensing - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week

In this new world where anyone can learn anything, anywhere -- how we track, verify, and share capabilities is becoming a big deal. Tune in to this podcast with Parchment CEO, Matt Pittinsky to learn more about the future of transcripts.

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Amid Privacy Changes, Facebook Will Still Treat U.S. Teens as Adults - Digital Education - Education Week

Facebook has announced a flurry of privacy-related changes. But teens, like adults, still can't say "I don't want you to get my data in the first place," experts said.

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Low Scorers Losing Ground on NAEP - Education Week

As achievement continues to flatten on NAEP, the gap is widening between the lowest and highest scorers on the nationally representative reading and math tests.

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U.S. 4th Graders Surprise on New Exam of Online Reading - Education Week

Amid worries about digital distractions and "fake news," more than half of students scored 'high' or above on a new international assessment of internet reading skills.

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Elementary School Teachers Can Improve Students' Mental Health, Study Finds - Early Years - Education Week

A new study has found that elementary teachers are effective at helping students significantly reduce mental health problems such as anxiety and attention disorders.

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Digital Media - Education Week

Multitasking with a mobile phone negatively affects students' lecture recall, reading comprehension, and reading speed, finds an analysis presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

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Students of Color Face Persistent Disparities in Access to Advanced STEM Courses - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

The U.S. Department of Education shows that in general, black and Latino students took fewer such classes than their white peers. And although they had similar access to schools offering Algebra 1 in 8th grade, a smaller proportion of them were enrolled in the class.

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Using Partnerships to Build a Better World Through Education - Global Learning - Education Week

How educators can form partnerships to take action on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Job-Market Data Informs Student Career Plans at Ky. School - Education Week

The staff at iLEAD Academy knows which jobs are in demand locally and how much they pay—and they make sure that students know, too, as they weigh college and career.

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Community Defined Projects at Health Leadership High - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week

A visit to project-based Health Leadership HS, a talent pipeline and advocacy organization for a healthier community in Albuquerque, NM.

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Whistleblower: School used software to get more state money - Education Week

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Response: Ways to Integrate Writing Into Science Classes - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Mary K. Tedrow, Amy Roediger, Dr. Maria Grant,Diane Lapp,EdD, Mandi White, Tara Dale and Becky Bone share their suggestions for how to integrating writing into science classes.

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5 Common Questions People Have About Learning Apps - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12 - Education Week

Learning apps have been steadily rising in popularity and availability. Many parents are excited at the prospect of taking a more active role in shaping their child's education.

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Barbara Bush believed literacy could cure other ills - Education Week

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Survey Data: On Today's Biggest Tech Issues, Principals Say … - Education Week

To understand how these key gatekeepers view four big technology topics, Education Week conducted a national survey of more than 500 principals, assistant principals, and school deans.

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Teachers: Poor students struggle with computer-based tests - Education Week

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Five Answers About EdTech Experiments: A Response to Benjamin Herold - EdTech Researcher - Education Week

An argument for why it is a good thing when education technology providers test new ideas with small randomized controlled trials.

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Straight Up Conversation: Math Guru Richard Rusczyk - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week

Richard Rusczyk is the founder of the Art of Problem Solving, a math curriculum and 300,000-member online learning community that supports students who excel in math. AoPS is the go-to trainer for America's Math Olympiad participants.

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Gates Foundation Eyes Middle Years Math Instruction - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

It's part of the foundation's $425 million research and development push, announced last fall.

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Multi-Tasking With Mobile Phones: Yep, It's Bad for Learning - Digital Education - Education Week

A new meta-analysis finds that mobile-phone multitasking—especially with social media— negatively affects reading speed, reading comprehension, and lecture recall.

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Technology Counts 2018 - Education Week

This year’s report takes a hard look at what principals are thinking and doing about some of the most vexing technology issues in their schools.

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Why Principals Are Embracing Personalized Learning - Education Week

Most principals support the movement to personalize instruction, according to an Education Week Research Center survey. But they remain concerned about overuse of ed tech.

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What Principals Really Think About Tech - Education Week

School leaders are worried about technology. But they're also supporting its expanded use in schools, an exclusive Education Week survey finds.

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School Principals Overwhelmingly Concerned About Children's Screen Time - Education Week

Ninety-five percent of principals said students spend too much time on digital devices when they're not in school, according to an exclusive Education Week Research Center survey.

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Ed-Tech Leadership Is a Tough Task for Principals - Education Week

School leaders face pressures about what digital learning approaches to take and what tech products to buy—from the central office, education companies, teachers, parents, and students.

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Principals Warm Up to Computer Science, Despite Obstacles - Education Week

High school leaders in smaller districts are most enthusiastic about the trend, a new survey by the Education Week Research Center found. But staffing challenges persist.

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Tech Pressures Put Principals in Difficult Spot - Education Week

Screen time concerns, social media behavior, personalized learning, and computer science trends are all now important elements of a principal’s job.

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On Social Media, Principals Fight Losing Battle to Keep Up With Students - Education Week

School leaders worry about students and social media. But most don’t feel fully prepared to tackle the challenge, a new Education Week Research Center survey found.

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Pearson Tested 'Social-Psychological' Messages in Learning Software, With Mixed Results - Digital Education - Education Week

An experiment with embedding "growth-mindset" messaging in software appeared to help students persist when they encountered difficulty—and raised ethical concerns.

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Flogging Dead Horses: The Case for New School Designs - Learning Deeply - Education Week

The need to build new schools in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia provides an opportunity to throw out obsolete ideas about how schools should operate and introduce new designs.

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Technical school helps barbers carry on family tradition - Education Week

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Teens Worry About Online Privacy: Q&A With Researcher Claire Fontaine - Digital Education - Education Week

"It's like getting a tattoo every time you go on the internet," said one young woman in a new study of teen views on digital privacy. What can schools do?

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STEM Lessons for Kindergarteners Earn Girl Scout Top Honor - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

A senior at Paradise High School in northern California earned the Gold Award, the highest achievement given to a Girl Scout, for creating 12 STEM lessons for kindergarteners.

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Response: 'Making an Inclusive Classroom Work' - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Donna Wilson, Marcus Conyers, Barbara Boroson, John McCarthy, Louise Goldberg, David Bateman, Jenifer Cline, Dr. Richard Villa, and Dr. Jacqueline Thousand provide advice to teachers on supporting students with special needs.

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Tally of misbehaving teacher increases in South Carolina - Education Week

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District moves suit in fatal school fight to federal court - Education Week

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Does The School Schedule Serve Teaching and Learning? - Leadership 360 - Education Week

The schedule should be developed to support the curricular needs of the teaching and learning.Teaching and learning should not be forced into a schedule's demands, but they have been and still do.

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Response: Ways to Support 'Students With Diverse Learning Needs' - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Jason Flom, Mandi White, Tara Dale, Dr. Wendy Murawski, Cheryl Mizerny and Karen Baptiste share their reflections on how teachers can best support students with special needs.

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Defiant No More, Arizona Governor Bends to Teacher Demands - Education Week

As recently as Tuesday, a defiant Arizona governor refused to meet with teachers threatening to strike over low pay. By Thursday, Republican Doug Ducey managed to scrape $274 million from the cash-starved state's coffers to offer a 9 percent wage hike starting this fall.

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