August 6, 2014

Education Week, Vol. 33, Issue 37
Education Timeline: Head Start's Journey
Explore an interactive timeline of important developments throughout the 50-year history of the War on Poverty's landmark program for young children.
Christina A. Samuels, August 5, 2014
Federal The Evolution of Head Start: An Audio Interview
On the cusp of Head Start's 50th anniversary, Edward F. Zigler reflects on the program's formation, its strengths, and his hopes for Head Start's future.
Christina A. Samuels, August 5, 2014
Rebecca Goodman folds clothes at home in Tulsa, Okla., as her daughter Madelynn and son Cooper look on.
Rebecca Goodman folds clothes at home in Tulsa, Okla., as her daughter Madelynn and son Cooper look on.
Shane Bevel for Education Week
Equity & Diversity Multigenerational Programs Aim to Break Poverty Cycle
New efforts are looking to help both children and their parents get a leg up and a better education.
Sarah D. Sparks, August 5, 2014
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Teauna Poole-Hunter watches her daughter Destiny Fairley, 7, center, and son Antonio Steel, 5, sack-race outside her home in Belzoni, Miss. Both children attended Head Start.
Teauna Poole-Hunter watches her daughter Destiny Fairley, 7, center, and son Antonio Steel, 5, sack-race outside her home in Belzoni, Miss. Both children attended Head Start.
Aaron Turner for Education Week
Equity & Diversity Born Amid Tumult, Head Start Deeply Rooted in Mississippi
Community connections forged during the civil rights era have helped sustain Head Start as a powerful presence for generations of Mississippians.
Christina A. Samuels, August 5, 2014
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Nicohles, Destiny, and Desiree Kleis, from left, eat lunch inside the lunch bus in Pasco County, Fla. A growing number of school districts are creating mobile meals programs to keep children well-fed over the summer.
Nicohles, Destiny, and Desiree Kleis, from left, eat lunch inside the lunch bus in Pasco County, Fla. A growing number of school districts are creating mobile meals programs to keep children well-fed over the summer.
Melissa Lyttle for Education Week
Equity & Diversity School Meal Programs Extend Their Reach
Fifty years after the War on Poverty, child hunger persists, despite deepened understanding of the problem and growing efforts to eradicate it.
Evie Blad, August 5, 2014
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Equity & Diversity Opinion How We Can Strengthen Schools Serving Low-Income Children
Three innovative and durable programs offer lessons in how to build the supportive school communities that can help low-income children thrive, Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane say.
Greg J. Duncan & Richard J. Murnane, August 5, 2014
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Ceremony for National Head Start Day on June 30, 1965, at the White House. Front row, right to left: Sargent Shriver, who spearheaded the program as director of the Office of Economic Opportunity; Lou Maginn, director of a Head Start project in Vermont; Lady Bird Johnson; entertainer Danny Kaye; and Mr. Shriver's sons Robert Shriver and Timothy Shriver.
Ceremony for National Head Start Day on June 30, 1965, at the White House. Front row, right to left: Sargent Shriver, who spearheaded the program as director of the Office of Economic Opportunity; Lou Maginn, director of a Head Start project in Vermont; Lady Bird Johnson; entertainer Danny Kaye; and Mr. Shriver's sons Robert Shriver and Timothy Shriver.
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Federal Head Start Endures, Evolves as 50-Year Milestone Nears
The ambitious early-childhood program launched in 1965 as part of the War on Poverty is going through dramatic—and sometimes painful—changes, while continuing to pursue its mission.
Christina A. Samuels, August 5, 2014
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Early Childhood Select K-12 Issues Gained State Legislative Traction
In a year when 46 states will hold legislative elections and 36 will select governors, state lawmakers pushed ahead on education priorities such as pre-K, teacher evaluations, and funding formulas.
Andrew Ujifusa, August 4, 2014
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IT Infrastructure & Management Schools Set to Adjust to Revamped E-Rate Policies
A new version of the E-rate program will include funding for school and library wireless-technology projects, and phase out support for services that federal officials see as outmoded.
Sean Cavanagh, August 1, 2014
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Tony Sinanis, the principal at Cantiague Elementary School in Jericho, N.Y., is a strong believer in administrators marketing the identities of their schools. He's asked students to help him tell his school's story through social media and other platforms.
Tony Sinanis, the principal at Cantiague Elementary School in Jericho, N.Y., is a strong believer in administrators marketing the identities of their schools. He's asked students to help him tell his school's story through social media and other platforms.
David Handschuh for Education Week
School & District Management Principals Test Entrepreneurial Ideas in K-12
Principals are applying concepts familiar in business circles—such as marketing, branding, and coordinated public outreach through social media—to manage their schools.
Michele Molnar & Michelle R. Davis, July 31, 2014
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Jared Boggess
Standards Opinion The Teachers' Unions Must Embrace the Future
Rather than stall progress, the NEA and the AFT should help schools transition from relics of the past to institutions of the future, writes Leslie C. Francis.
Leslie C. Francis, July 30, 2014
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Janet Barresi, center, state superintendent of Oklahoma schools, speaks on the Oklahoma Standards Development Process plan to develop new state education standards, pictured in a chart at rear, during a state school board meeting in Oklahoma City, earlier this month. The board voted to again delay a formal plan for adopting new education standards in math and English amid opposition to the proposal by three education groups that represent public school boards and administrators from across the state.
Janet Barresi, center, state superintendent of Oklahoma schools, speaks on the Oklahoma Standards Development Process plan to develop new state education standards, pictured in a chart at rear, during a state school board meeting in Oklahoma City, earlier this month. The board voted to again delay a formal plan for adopting new education standards in math and English amid opposition to the proposal by three education groups that represent public school boards and administrators from across the state.
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School & District Management Common Core May Persist, Even in Opposition States
Despite heated resistance and high-profile bills, states' academic guidelines may still look a lot like the Common Core State Standards.
Andrew Ujifusa, July 30, 2014
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Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at a Vape store in Chicago.
Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at a Vape store in Chicago.
Nam Y. Huh/AP-File
Student Well-Being E-Cigarettes Cloud Schools' Anti-Smoking Policies
Fearing that trendy electronic cigarettes will fuel a resurgence in teenage smoking, educators are clamping down on students' use of the devices on school grounds.
Amanda Ulrich, July 29, 2014
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Federal Opinion A Bipartisan Argument for Full-Service Community Schools
U.S. Reps. Steny H. Hoyer, a Democrat, and Aaron Schock, a Republican, introduced a bill last week that would create a competitive-grant program to expand such schools.
Steny H. Hoyer & Aaron Schock, July 28, 2014
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Talizha Jones, rehearsing an 8th-grade graduation song at Brennan-Rogers School of Communications and Media, wanted to switch schools when students were required to attend the New Haven, Conn., school for nearly eight hours a day.
Talizha Jones, rehearsing an 8th-grade graduation song at Brennan-Rogers School of Communications and Media, wanted to switch schools when students were required to attend the New Haven, Conn., school for nearly eight hours a day.
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School & District Management For One Conn. School, Extended School Day a Failed Experiment
The extended-day experiment at Brennan-Rogers School in New Haven, Conn., had exhausted students and teachers without making progress towards closing the achievement gap.
Melissa Bailey, The Hechinger Report, July 28, 2014
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Teaching Profession NEA and AFT: Two Unions, One Voice?
At their respective conventions in July, the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers often echoed one another.
Liana Loewus, July 25, 2014
Federal AFT, NEA Agendas Converge Amid External, Internal Pressure
At their recent conventions, the teachers' unions showed remarkable alignment on key issues, from testing and accountability to common-core implementation and forceful rebukes of Secretary Duncan.
Stephen Sawchuk & Liana Loewus, July 25, 2014
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Education Funding Race to the Top at 5: States' Spending Plans
With hundreds of millions of dollars left in the Obama administration's signature education-redesign program, here's a look at how much grant money the 12 biggest winners still have in their coffers.
Lauren Camera, July 24, 2014
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Tony Bennett ponders a question at a news conference last year, where he announced his resignation as Florida education commissioner. The move came following reports that Mr. Bennett had altered Indiana’s A-F school accountability system in his previous role as that state's education chief.
Tony Bennett ponders a question at a news conference last year, where he announced his resignation as Florida education commissioner. The move came following reports that Mr. Bennett had altered Indiana’s A-F school accountability system in his previous role as that state's education chief.
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Accountability Indiana A-F Difficulties Linger, Despite Bennett's Exoneration
While former Indiana state chief Tony Bennett is cleared of ethics allegations in the changing of a charter school's grade, the state is considering major changes in the grading system he championed.
Andrew Ujifusa, July 23, 2014
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School & District Management Opinion Next Steps for the Next Generation Science Standards
States that adopt the Next Generation Science Standards must declare a moratorium on high-stakes science testing, Arthur Camins writes.
Arthur H. Camins, July 22, 2014
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Leonardo Guerra, who works for a food vendor, holds a school lunch tray featuring his company's whole wheat tortillas at the School Nutrition Association conference in Boston earlier this month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's nutritional standards for schools, which took effect in 2012, require schools to serve more fresh fruit, vegetables, and whole grains and to limit calories, fat, and sodium in their federally subsidized meals.
Leonardo Guerra, who works for a food vendor, holds a school lunch tray featuring his company's whole wheat tortillas at the School Nutrition Association conference in Boston earlier this month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's nutritional standards for schools, which took effect in 2012, require schools to serve more fresh fruit, vegetables, and whole grains and to limit calories, fat, and sodium in their federally subsidized meals.
Charles Krupa/AP
School & District Management Are Healthier School Lunches Winning Over Students?
Two new surveys of school leaders found that while many students complained about the more-nutritious fare offered by schools when new federal rules rolled out, that discontent seems to have waned.
Evie Blad, July 21, 2014
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Early Childhood Opinion Four Lessons From Early Education
K-12 policymakers could learn from the pre-K field, where educators serve families as well as children and many states offer incentives for teacher preparation, says Joan Wasser Gish.
Joan Wasser Gish, July 18, 2014
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