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W.V. leaders plan to again push charter schools, vouchers

Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Patricia Rucker said West Virginia's upcoming special legislative session on education will include additional bills on charter schools and education savings accounts.

New superintendent chosen for Botetourt County

The Virginia district's school board appointed Lisa Chen to replace retiring Superintendent John Busher. Chen is currently the assistant superintendent of public instruction at Louisa County Public Schools.

Titusville ASD hires internal candidate

The Pennsylvania district's school board named Stephanie Keebler as the district's new superintendent, replacing retiring Superintendent Karen Jez. Keebler previously worked for the district as director of federal programs.

Two reading and language arts games released

Wake Up Stars is a storytelling game developed by board game designer Dr. Reiner Knizia. The second game, Lily Pond, helps build foundational reading skills.

School districts chosen to pilot Michigan data collection project

Merit Network, in partnership with Michigan State University's Quello Center and Measurement Lab, is addressing the digital divide in Michigan with access and availability data collection, and infrastructure investment and societal impact investigation and education. Three districts will pilot the Michigan Moonshot broadband data collection project.

New AI and analytics education initiatives launched

SAS launched free artificial intelligence (AI) software for teaching and learning, a new analytics simulation game, AI certifications and badging, and a Boys & Girls Club coding partnership.

Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football

While he was an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, John Urschel simultaneously pursued his PhD in mathematics at MIT. “So often, people want to divide the world into two,” he observes. “Matter and energy. Wave and particle. Athlete and mathematician. Why can't something (or someone) be both?” Request a copy.

Infographic: 6 strategies to close math gaps for ELLS

There have been significant achievement gaps in NAEP math scores between ELLs and non-ELLs since the 1990s. As this population continues to grow, so do the math score gaps. This infographic provides six strategies to disrupt this trend and help your Latino ELLs reach the same levels of math achievement as their peers.

Get talking about equity

English Learners (ELs) account for more than 4.7 million public school students. ELs often struggle to keep up with their English-speaking peers academically. But language learning technology opens new doorways to academic success. Read this e-guide to learn how edtech solutions can create equity in the K-12 classroom.

Can personalized learning actually deliver?

A new National Education Policy Center report looks at K-12 personalized learning and finds that there are many reasons for school districts to think twice about embracing this trend. Computer technology often comes with an presumption of unbiased objectivity; however, software is written by humans, and it reflects their biases, assumptions and culture.

Teachers go to school on racial bias

Boston-area schools are leading a shift toward culturally responsive teaching. Educators say the resulting conversations about race are difficult, uncomfortable—and absolutely necessary.

Most teachers don’t have time to collaborate. These educators do.

District administrators want to adopt collaborative teaching models, but according to a RAND Corporation survey, only 31 percent of teachers have time to work with their peers. Northern Cass School District #97 in North Dakota and Metropolitan School District in Indiana found ways to expand opportunities for teacher collaboration.

What keeps administrators up at night? Effective data use, survey says.

Data-driven decision-making continues to be a focus of schools and districts. An American Productivity & Quality Center survey reveals that educators want to make better sense of the data that they currently collect and use for evaluation and accountability purposes.

Teaching about school segregation and educational inequality

Although many students learn about the historical struggles to desegregate schools in the civil rights era, segregation as a current reality is largely absent from the curriculum.

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