Colleges, universities, schools and districts need to work together to find solutions that allow more committed aspiring teachers to enter the profession—paying stipends, providing housing and creating paid positions for student-teachers can all make a difference for educators like me. Sustained practice shouldn't be the biggest obstacle for them to overcome.
Declining participation has led some high schools to cancel their football seasons. While the cancellations happened from California to New Jersey, data shows that about half the schools that called off their season this year were in rural areas, where the loss of football doesn't just affect players and families, but ripples throughout the whole community.
A new debt affordability study for North Carolina could throw cold water on plans by the House and Gov. Roy Cooper to pass a nearly $2 billion bond for public school construction. The Senate said the study at least indirectly justified its alternative proposal to fund K12 building with a pay-as-you-go plan.
Amino Labs has partnered with MindFuel to expand its Canadian and U.S. presence in K12 education. The Amino Labs Educators Starter Kit, which is a synthetic biology starter kit for teachers, will be combined with MindFuel's Wonderville.org service platform to provide curricula-aligned lessons in synthetic biology.
Vernier Software & Technology has released the Exploring Motion and Force with Go Direct Sensor Cart downloadable activity module to engage students in hands-on learning as they investigate STEM concepts such as frictional forces, motion and simple machines.
The State Education Department has a perpetual backlog of school building project reviews, with nearly half taking six months or longer before they are approved, an audit found. Many projects typically languish for months, adding inflationary costs and impacting the way districts plan for things such as building renovations, new construction or modernizing structures.
A long journey lies ahead for House Bill 1525, which came before the North Dakota House Education Committee, which would draw money from the Common Schools Trust Fund to pay off all the outstanding debt accrued by school districts around the state. This would, if passed, avoid the need for voters to determine if they will pay for additional school construction through bonding or tax increases.
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.
Citing the importance of eliminating the “incumbency advantage” and the need to generate fresh ideas, members of the Florida House PreK-12 Quality subcommittee backed a resolution to ask voters to approve term limits for school board members.
Gov. Phil Murphy announced that 29 school districts are being awarded grants totaling $2 million that will cover 900 seats. He also announced that a nonprofit is launching a privately funded fellowship program for elementary school math teachers to improve their skills. In addition, the New Jersey Department of Education will be shifting $13.6 million in federal funding to low-income districts for a range of programs including STEM.
High school students currently in grades 10 or 11 are invited to apply for the STEM Summer Enrichment Program at Penn State Harrisburg's School of Science, Engineering, and Technology. The free two-week program will introduce high school students to STEM disciplines and careers through hands-on activities in areas including mathematics, computer science, chemistry, biology, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and physics.
A new Georgia bill will clarify when drivers can and cannot pass a school bus. Senate Bill 25 changes language senators called confusing when it comes to drivers safely passing stopped school buses.
Educational Services Unit 11 announces a new initiative to bring a mobile STEM lab to schools. Students will be able to explore potential careers available in south central Nebraska and learn about the skills businesses seek when filling STEM-related positions.
The vast majority of Idaho LGBTQ teenagers who participated in a national survey say they regularly hear homophobic remarks at school. Of the Idaho youth surveyed, 84 percent reported regularly hearing homophobic remarks at school and 74 percent regularly heard negative remarks about transgender people.
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