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What parents of dyslexic children are teaching schools about literacy

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Fewer than 40 percent of fourth and eighth grade students nationwide are proficient readers. Now, led by parents of children with dyslexia, some states are trying to change how reading is taught. In Arkansas, a group of determined advocates have upended traditional reading instruction.

University to open new center that focuses on school safety

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The Johns Hopkins University will create a new interdisciplinary center for school safety and health for school leaders. The center will bring together more than two dozen faculty from disciplines as diverse as education and public health to applied physics.

School districts chosen to pilot Michigan data collection project

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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

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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.

Teachers go to school on racial bias

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football

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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.

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