Education Week: News and Information About Issues in Education for Educators
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States Mulling Creativity Indexes for Schools
California, Massachusetts, and Oklahoma are working on ways to promote, and measure, creativity and innovation in their schools.
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District Leaders Get Dose of Teaching Common Core
Brought together by the Aspen Institute, chief academic officers were introduced to strategies to teach reading from new perspectives.
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Common-Core Work Must Include Teacher Development
The professional development needed to support teachers' part in the common-core standards has remained an afterthought, Stephanie Hirsh writes.
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Bringing STEM Into Focus
The use of practical applications in the science classroom, like model-building and data analysis, can help students make critical STEM connections, write Jean Moon and Susan Rundell Singer.
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New Kentucky Student Assessments: Prepare to Be Confused
More than 500,000 Kentucky public school students will take the state's new K-Prep test for the first time this spring.
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International Initiatives Fuel Growth of Open Ed. Content
Experts say the real power of open education resources comes not from the fact that they are free, but from the ability to customize the content.
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Returning Character Education to Schools
Schools must restore the place of character education in learning, Joseph Gauld writes.
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One Student at a Time
Individualized instruction is critical to providing true 21st-century education, David V. Hicks writes.
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Summit to Make a Case for Teaching Handwriting
Educators and experts say students still need to learn penmanship, even in a digital age.
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Apple Unveils E-Textbook Strategy for K-12
The technology company announces content partnerships with major education publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson.
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Fallout Continues Over 'Pretend Slave' Assignment
A parent's objection to a recent lesson on slavery illustrates the often tricky role teachers must play when discussing sensitive topics.
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Colo. Approves Rules for Online Schools
The Colorado board of education has voted unanimously to approve rules establishing new quality standards for online schools and make them subject to the same scrutiny as traditional schools when they miss those standards.
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Calif. Districts Unclear on Gay-History Content
A controversial state law approved in July amid heated debate isn't likely to affect California classrooms any time soon.
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National Sexuality Standards Would Introduce Subject Early
National health and education groups say the standards are the minimum students should know about sexual and relationship health in grades K-12.
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Study Finds Single-Sex Schools Benefit Some—But Not All
Just as single-sex schools are undergoing scrutiny in the U.S., a Caribbean study schools finds that they are academically beneficial for girls who prefer that environment but not for most boys or girls.
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Chicago Releases Guidelines for Longer School Day
CPS is hoping that schools use the extra time for such things as intervention programs, and to move overachieving students beyond grade level.
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N.H. Parents Gain Leverage to Challenge Curricula
Districts, however, must approve of the new materials, and parents must pay for them.
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