Excelligence Learning Corporation has acquired the Letter People and the DIG comprehensive pre-K curriculum from Abrams Learning Trends. The Abrams products acquired will be incorporated into Frog Street Press, a subsidiary of Excelligence.
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.
About 6 percent of students nationwide are “twice exceptional,” or 2e: They have high academic aptitude but struggle with ADHD, mild autism, dyslexia, or other learning and behavioral challenges. Parents say it's often impossible to find schools to educate them. Now some are fighting to change that.
The California Department of Education is calling for schools to have half of all K-12 students on track for proficiency in two languages by the end of the next decade. But districts are facing another hurdle: A report shows that the number of teachers with bilingual certifications has decreased from about 1,500 annually in the 1990s to around 700 in 2015-16.
Colorado parents will be able to enroll their children in full-day kindergarten at no cost starting this fall. While most kindergarten students already attend full-day programs, in many districts parents pay tuition or districts pull from other needs to cover the cost.
This web seminar addressed how administrators can facilitate discussions about the effective use of data and how to improve teachers' relationship with data. Sponsored content by Istation.
This roundup covers the impact of advanced academics on kindergartners, the effects of teachers' unions on student achievement, the benefits of transitional programs for special needs students, and the advantages of family-school interventions, among other topics.
Coding can serve as a catalyst for schools looking to integrate tech more meaningfully into required subjects, as well as the glue that binds together learning connections across them.
