With a network going down three to seven times a day, the time-strapped IT team at Nash-Rocky Mount Schools knew it was time for a change. Read why they chose cloud-managed IT to support their students.
A new area chapter of a national mentoring program is giving them a taste of what Minnesota students' futures could look like. The organization aims to introduce a more diverse group of high school students to the diverse career opportunities in the fields of construction, architecture and engineering.
One proposal would prohibit felons from serving on school boards. A separate bill would address school board members' conduct by allowing a superintendent to suspend a member of a school board pending the results of a forensic, fiscal or performance audit.
For more than two years, a group of parents has fought with the California district over its sexual health curriculum and appropriate ages. An online petition opposing the curriculum has over 6,000 signatures and an in-person petition has collected 4,000 signatures.
Any high school can apply for the grants. Five schools will be selected to receive $500,000 each from XQ to redesign their schools. The money can be used to implement the new high school design, which might call for changing the class schedule, using technology in new ways or expanding career and technical opportunities.
A Utah lawmaker says every school district needs to have a policy in place when it comes to the use of electronic devices at school, and she says they need to make sure teachers, students and parents are trained on it. Rep. Susan Pulsipher says the proposal also came about as a result of students downloading and viewing inappropriate material.
The booming economy means a shortage of school bus drivers in many parts of the country. In Maine, the situation was so bad one school had to cancel classes for a day.
StudySync announced its content partnership with The Players' Tribune. Through the partnership, StudySync is incorporating first-person narratives from a set of international athletes into its core StudySync ELA curriculum, as well as its Blasts assignments.
How can classroom teachers give students opportunities to develop an innovation mindset and build these important skills? Model the mindset, implement project-based learning or challenge-based learning, and share news about innovation related to your subject area in your classroom.
More Mississippi students than ever before are gaining access to high-quality early learning this year thanks to increased funding for the state's pre-K program. One big reason is the strong data on education outcomes that have been collected and shared in the state.
A new report from Michigan State University analyzed long-term education spending trends. The report found that in every state but two—Michigan and West Virginia—education revenue increased from 1995 to 2015. But it is often assumed that this additional spending will be good for students, but the data suggest that increased funding by itself has little relationship to student achievement growth.
The New York district named Nicole M. Wolfe, the current assistant superintendent for business and elementary education, as the new superintendent. She replaces Union-Endicott CSD's Suzanne McLeod.
Stoughton's school committee selected John Marcus as the Massachusetts district's new superintendent, replacing Superintendent Marguerite Rizzi. He currently serves as the assistant superintendent for Sharon Public Schools.
Freezing conditions pushed some Michigan school districts on Wednesday to close for their seventh day this school year, which will force their superintendents to decide whether to add more instruction time to the calendar or seek a state waiver to avoid the loss of aid.
How do closures affect students' academic performance? In many places, closures hurt students academically; in some others, they helped, studies have found. Nationwide, closures appear to slightly lower test scores. And it really matters the quality of the school displaced students end up moving to.
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