Casio announced its new Superior Series of Lampfree projectors. The series is geared for classrooms and conference rooms, and offers high brightness, low maintenance and flexibility. The new suite of education solutions includes features designed to reduce set-up time in the classroom.
Parents of children with disabilities filed a class action lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Education, accusing the state of denying their children the opportunity to attend school for a full day. According to the lawsuit, some Oregon public schools are shortening the school day for children whose disabilities lead to challenging classroom behaviors.
The Virginia Board of Education recommended Mirrors and Windows from Carnegie Learning's EMC School for the 2019 language arts state adoption for grades 6-12. It will give middle and high school educators statewide the opportunity to review the program for implementation starting in the 2019-20 school year.
Certainly, we need to do whatever we can to ensure that students from historically underrepresented populations have a chance to participate in STEM programs. But while many are pushing for a greater focus on STEM in school, alarm is spreading over what others have characterized as a crisis in civics education.
McGraw-Hill Education will offer an exclusive IM Certified customized version of Illustrative Mathematics' grades 6-12 curriculum on McGraw-Hill's digital learning platform. It adds interactive tutorials, assessment tools, a customized version of professional learning for teachers and print materials.
The Baltimore Orioles partnered with the New York Mets and the Chicago White Sox to give K12 students across the nation access to hands-on, baseball-themed science lessons. Discovery Education and Major League Baseball have teamed up to launch this program in Baltimore County Public Schools.
One way to address the teacher shortage crisis is to create policies and systems to support teacher recruitment and retention. Some are addressing it through increasing teacher pay to be on par with other highly desirable professions. Others are coordinating national investments to target in-need geographic areas or subject matter areas.
Under the proposal, the state's 48 individual school districts would shoulder the responsibility of building new schools as state leaders continue to search for a way to fill the funding gap left by the loss of coal lease bonuses.
Policymakers could solve two of our most challenging issues in education with a single approach. Higher base salaries and well-planned monetary incentives would address both the financial burden of being a teacher and the inequities that permeate our education system by attracting and retaining excellent teachers.
Top Texas lawmakers this year are proposing allocating billions of more dollars for public schools, but a portion of those dollars will likely have strings attached. And some education advocates worry the strings will lead to an even greater emphasis being placed on standardized tests in the state.
