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High school career center creates statewide robotics pipeline

By Adam Galvan

Today’s industrial jobs demand skilled workers to handle the fast-changing needs of industry. Tri-Rivers Career Center, a voc-tech high school in Marion, Ohio, was receiving calls from local companies saying there weren’t enough skilled workers entering the trades, especially manufacturing. So in 2012 the career center launched the Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing Technology Education Collaborative […]

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July 20, 2016

Modernizing teaching in New York

Teachers who have taken on school leadership roles across New York state gathered this past June for the first time to refine initiatives designed to improve their schools. Twenty teacher teams participated in the inaugural New York Teacher Leadership Summit, which was hosted in New York City by Teach to Lead, a project of the […]

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July 20, 2016

After-school acceleration

When Heidi Sipe, superintendent of Oregon’s poor, rural Umatilla School District, asks her elementary-age students what they want to be when they grow up, she no longer gets the answers she once did: football player, firefighter, nurse. Now the students tell her they want to be engineers. Sipe attributes the change to the district’s four-year-old […]

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July 19, 2016

New school initiative backs tech-ready librarians

Media specialist Samantha Edwards wants noise in her library—and she hears it. Last fall, Edwards, the librarian at Fogelsville Elementary School in Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, opened a modest self-publishing center in the library outfitted with an iMac, a printer and a machine to bind books. She noticed how excited her students were to […]

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July 19, 2016

Flexible eBook platform helps to reach diverse student populations

At Napa Valley USD in northern California, classroom technology integration has been a priority since 1997, when the district opened the country’s first New Technology High School. So bringing in digital books in order to provide easily accessible content to the 18,000 students and faculty in 34 schools was a natural—and important—step. “The challenge was […]

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July 18, 2016

Kaya Henderson stepping down as Washington D.C. schools chancellor

Kaya Henderson will step down in September as chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools after serving in the position for more than five years. She says she will spend time with family before considering other offers in education, published reports state. During Henderson’s tenure, the once-troubled district has stabilized and seen marked improvements […]

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July 15, 2016

Who's still testing with PARCC and Smarter Balanced?

Another group of states in 2015-16 deployed their own Common Core-aligned assessments, adding greater momentum to a national shift away from the PARCC and Smarter Balanced testing consortia. Who’s still testing with PARCC and Smarter Balanced? Another group of states in 2015-16 deployed their own Common Core-aligned assessments, adding greater momentum to a national shift […]

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July 14, 2016

Five years in, results paint complex picture of Common Core

More than five years after many states implemented Common Core, the impact on student achievement remains unclear—though some states show small academic gains, with persistent achievement gaps. “Common Core is alive and well” says Adam Ezring, policy director of the Collaborative For Student Success, a nonprofit that supports use of the standards. “While it’s still […]

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Curriculum & Instruction

Top Curriculum & Instruction Stories

High school career center creates statewide robotics pipeline

&quot;Meaningful Making:&quot; and other reading picks for district leaders

Schools ride new wave in writing

Curriculum & Instruction Stories

Modernizing teaching in New York

After-school acceleration

New school initiative backs tech-ready librarians

Flexible eBook platform helps to reach diverse student populations

Kaya Henderson stepping down as Washington D.C. schools chancellor

Who's still testing with PARCC and Smarter Balanced?

Five years in, results paint complex picture of Common Core

"Meaningful Making:" and other reading picks for district leaders