White House Announces 'Computer Science for All' Initiative - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Today, the White House announced what it's calling an "ambitious, all-hands-on deck" initiative to get every student in the United States coding.

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Response: Building Relationships With Families of ELLs - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Rusul Alrubail, Anna Bartosik, Jordan Lanfair, Anabel Gonzalez, Karen Nemeth, and Judie Haynes offer suggestions on how to engage with parents of English Language Learners.

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Can Technology Help Community Schools Go To Scale? - Digital Education - Education Week

Proponents of community schools say better tools to facilitate the sharing of student data between schools and community partners can help the model take root.

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President Obama Announces 'Computer Science for All' Initiative - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

Today, the White House announced what it's calling an "ambitious, all-hands-on deck" initiative to get every student in the United States coding.

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Introducing Your Special Guest Stars: Porter Magee, Cowen, Hoffman, and the Smarter Schools Project - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week

It's that time of year again—as I take some time off to work on my upcoming book and observe Trump-o-mania, here's a lineup of some stellar guest stars for the month of February.

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House GOP says teacher raise, job tax credit on agenda - Education Week

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30 years since Challenger: Teacher-in-Space finalists gather - Education Week

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Funding issues plague Kentucky's proposed high speed network - Education Week

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What Teachers Need to Know About Teacher Recruitment - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

A new special report on teacher recruitment could give teachers helpful knowledge on the educator job market.

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More Districts Mine Data to Refine Teacher Hiring - Education Week

Advocates say that making better use of analytics and screening tools in recruitment processes can improve schools' hiring outcomes across a number of areas.

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STEM Teacher Tool: Free Videos on 'Super Small Science' - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

NBC Learn and the National Science Foundation have released a series of short videos about nanotechnology, or the study of objects that are measured in billionths of meters.

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Teachers, Teens and Social Media: Q&A with danah boyd - Digital Education - Education Week

Among the hot topics at this year's EduCon 2.8 conference, kicking off Friday in Philadelphia, is a new book from researcher danah boyd on the "networked lives" of today's teens.

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What Happened With LeVar Burton's 'Reading Rainbow' Kickstarter? - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

The hit Kickstarter project is working to make good on its promise to teachers.

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Can STEM be Education's Disruptive Innovation? - Leadership 360 - Education Week

At what point are educators complicit in the decision about which students will be knowledge workers and which can not?

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Three Decades After Challenger Disaster, Remembrances and Change - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

It's been 30 years since the space shuttle Challenger exploded with New Hampshire teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe on board.

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Chat: Bringing Digital Differentiation to All Subjects - Education Week

Digitally driven learning remains uneven across subject areas. Math and literacy teachers have access to high-quality adaptive curricula while social studies and science educators often have to create their own. How can educators in all subjects find the digital resources they need?

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New Interoperability Standard Aims to Ease Major Ed-Tech Headache - Education Week

Some districts see OneRoster, an interoperability standard developed by an ed-tech consortium, as the most attractive option for helping districts manage the sea of dissimilar data their teachers and students are using.

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Walton Family Foundation: We Must Rethink Online Learning - Education Week

A "sobering" study of virtual charters leads to funding reforms, write Marc Sternberg and Marc Holley of the Walton Family Foundation.

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'Micro Schools' Could Be New Competition for Private K-12 - Education Week

The growth in numbers of small, personalized, and more affordable 'micro schools' are seen as the first innovation in the private school sector in decades.

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States of the States: Calif., Colo., Mich., Neb., N.M., S.C., Wis. - Education Week

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

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Despite Growth, AP Pool Is Not Diluted, Studies Say - Education Week

The academic performance levels of students who take AP courses are still high, according to a pair of analyses from the American Enterprise Institute.

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Discussions of High-Stakes Testing Should Include International Tests - Education Week

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When the Teacher Is Sick (Really Sick) - Education Week

Teacher Karla Duff had never really thought about being away from her classroom for an extended period of time. Then came cancer, and a reckoning.

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Price Tool Aims to Help Districts With Bandwidth - Education Week

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Education Department's Acting Chief Turns Up Volume - Education Week

In the first few weeks of his tenure, acting U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. has made it clear he'll keep up the rhetorical drumbeat on educational equity.

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To Connect With Candidates, School Recruiters Hone Social Media Skills - Education Week

District HR directors are starting to see platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn as key tools for reaching the current generation of prospective educators.

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Chicago Public Schools announces 227 administrative layoffs - Education Week

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Veto-proof majority backs repeal of technical education cuts - Education Week

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4 Critical Leadership Abilities Leading to Student Success - Leadership 360 - Education Week

We would be foolish to expect professionals who have experienced success in the past to seek and adopt new practices without purposeful professional development and an environment in which adult learning and risk-taking is valued and rewarded.

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Snow Days and E-Learning: A Roundup of News Coverage - Digital Education - Education Week

From Alabama to Kentucky to Pennsylvania, states and school districts have experimented with technology and online learning to minimize the disruption caused by snow days.

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New York City Moves to 'Departmentalize' Math Teaching for 5th Graders - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

The school district is looking to departmentalize math instruction for 5th grade students as part of a push for stronger algebra preparation.

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Price Transparency Tool Aims to Help Schools Get More Affordable Bandwidth - Digital Education - Education Week

A new online portal from school-broadband-advovacy group EducationSuperHighway contains Internet service and pricing information for 13,000 public districts across the country.

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In Tech: Minecraft for schools, Amazon Dash, data encryption - Education Week

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Moving Through Deeper Learning at Your Own Pace - Learning Deeply - Education Week

A Massachusetts school shows a way to design a structure to enable students to move at their own pace--and avoid the shame of falling behind--writes Kathleen Cushman.

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MinecraftEdu Acquired by Microsoft - Digital Education - Education Week

The American technology giant has plans to expand the classroom version of the wildly popular video game that invites users to build, create, and explore.

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Building Empathy in Classrooms and Schools - Education Week

Teachers Brianna Crowley and Barry Saide offer advice on developing an empathic mindset in an education culture that doesn’t always value it but desperately needs it.

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Minnesota lawmakers take on data privacy in classrooms - Education Week

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John King: ESSA Has Risks, Opportunities for Poor and Minority Students - Politics K-12 - Education Week

The acting U.S. education secretary says the Every Student Succeeds Act gives states and districts more flexibility to push toward equity, though there are potential soft spots.

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Science Teachers Need More Training to Get Ready for Next Generation Standards - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

Very few K-12 science teachers have the experience needed to teach the science and engineering practices described in the Next Generation Science Standards, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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In Home Stretch, Obama Vows to Push On Education Priorities - Education Week

The president uses his final State of the Union address to make clear he will press Congress and his successor to continue unfinished pieces of his education agenda.

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State of the States: Ariz., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Iowa, Ind., Kan., N.J., N.Y., S.D., Vt., Va., Wash., W.Va. - Education Week

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

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Berklee, Boston Conservatory agree to unite as single school - Education Week

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Open Education Resources Get Major Boost From ESSA - Education Week

The sweeping federal law contains specific language that allows states and local education agencies to channel block grant money focused on technology toward open materials.

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Calif. Teacher Under Fire for Donating Laptops - Education Week

A California high school teacher is under fire for donating laptops to her students.

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New 'Sting' Video Targets Common Core - Education Week

James O'Keefe, the conservative activist best known for doing undercover video recordings in ACORN offices, released a new "sting" video last week in which a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt sales executive is heard admitting that common-core textbooks are "all about the money."

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