Financial literacy education has lasting impact
The effects of financial literacy education in high school continue to influence attitudes and behaviors toward money management for students well after graduation, according to newly released study.
Elementary students in Bellevue schools taking on STEM studies
“Failure is not an option. It’s a requirement,” explained Jennifer Mickelson, teacher at Newport Heights Elementary, as her students finalized parachutes for launch.
Putting Student Data To The Test To Identify Struggling Kids
At Miami Carol City Senior High in Florida, a handful of teachers, administrators and coaches are gathered around a heavy wooden table in a conference room dubbed the "War Room," looking through packets of information about several students.
Voucher students post gain in math, reading; still lag public schools
Reading and math proficiency for students attending private, mostly religious schools in Milwaukee with the help of taxpayer-funded vouchers ticked up in 2013 from 2012, according to the latest state standardized test score results.
Chicago Public Schools delays new test for private school applicants to public high schools
Chicago Public Schools said today that the standardized test being used for the first time in applications to the city’s top selective enrollment schools will also be required for private school students, but that those children won’t have to take…
Achievement gaps between Montgomery’s high-poverty, low-poverty high schools grow
Montgomery County’s efforts to close the gap in achievement between its high-poverty and low-poverty high schools have not worked, with widening disparities on many measures of student success, according to a county report released Tuesday.
In Testimony, Arne Duncan Continues to Distance Himself From Common Core
In a hearing before a House appropriations subcommittee Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan defended the competitive grants built into his fiscal 2015 budget request, gave no substantive details about a proposed Race to the Top for equity contest,…
Teachers, Parents Push for Common Core Delay
An education advocacy group representing more than 10 million teachers, principals, administrators, parents and school board members nationwide said Tuesday policymakers should give states more time to implement the Common Core State Standards and asked for a delay in the accountability…
Bipartisan Charter, Research Bills Sail Through House Education Committee
After months of gridlock on a range of K-12 issues, the House education panel gave swift, bipartisan approval Tuesday to two education bills. One, a reauthorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act, is aimed at making education research more timely, relevant,…
Delaware officials eye school breakfast programs
State officials are urging more Delaware schools to offer breakfast to their students, saying proper nutrition is an important foundation for learning.
Branstad’s anti-bullying legislation struggles to gain steam
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad asked for understanding while one of his top legislative priorities of the 2014 session struggles to gain steam.
Want to prepare kids for the future? Teach them to code.
We are experiencing a technology revolution, a new world in which coding is no longer for the anti-social, nerdy white males but for the cool kids. Figures like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have created a culture that embraces technical innovation and that has…
Portrait of bullied girl emerges from case file
The Florida girl who authorities said jumped to her death because she was bullied also had a spotty relationship with her father and had just broken up with an online boyfriend, according to police documents.
Kansas teachers union set to sue if teacher firings lack due process
Officials with the state’s largest teachers union said they are ready to sue school districts that try to fire teachers without due process under a provision of an education bill passed by Kansas lawmakers Sunday.
Obama Tells U.S. Students They Must Compete Against China, India
President Barack Obama awarded $107 million in grants to help schools revamp their curriculum to better prepare students for success in their chosen career.
Rural Legislators Wary Of Change To School Funding Formula
With the Alaska House of Representatives set to vote on an omnibus education bill Monday night, rural legislators are prepared to fight a change to the funding formula included in the legislation.
