January 16, 2019
Education Week, Vol. 38, Issue 18
Education
Letter to the Editor
Understanding Personalization
To the Editor:
The recent special report ("Personalized Learning: 4 Big Questions Shaping the Movement," November 7, 2018) raises four key issues that deserve clarification. As leaders of the AASA Personalized Learning national cohort, we offer the following reflections.
The recent special report ("Personalized Learning: 4 Big Questions Shaping the Movement," November 7, 2018) raises four key issues that deserve clarification. As leaders of the AASA Personalized Learning national cohort, we offer the following reflections.
Curriculum
Letter to the Editor
How We Achieve Student Success
To the Editor:
Questions about technology and student agency are important when defining personalized learning, ("Personalized Learning: 4 Big Questions Shaping the Movement," November 7, 2018). However, as the stories in the special report about Chicago International Charter School Bucktown and Providence public schools illustrate, it's just as important for schools to ask: What is our vision for student success, and what do we have to do to achieve it?
Questions about technology and student agency are important when defining personalized learning, ("Personalized Learning: 4 Big Questions Shaping the Movement," November 7, 2018). However, as the stories in the special report about Chicago International Charter School Bucktown and Providence public schools illustrate, it's just as important for schools to ask: What is our vision for student success, and what do we have to do to achieve it?
Education
Letter to the Editor
Let's Rethink Schooling
To the Editor:
Education Week's special report, ("Personalized Learning: 4 Big Questions Shaping the Movement," November 7, 2018) noted personalized learning's phenomenal growth but also outlined the difficulties schools experience when implementing this practice.
Education Week's special report, ("Personalized Learning: 4 Big Questions Shaping the Movement," November 7, 2018) noted personalized learning's phenomenal growth but also outlined the difficulties schools experience when implementing this practice.
School & District Management
Opinion
The First Rule of Public Scholarship? Nobody Knows Anything
It’s not easy to become a public scholar. Frederick M. Hess shares the lessons he learned the hard way about being an education "expert."
School & District Management
Opinion
Public Scholarship Is About More Than Edu-Celebrity
Public engagement is important, but it also comes with risks, writes Janelle Scott. Here's what you need to know.
School & District Management
Opinion
I'm a Researcher. Here's What Happened When I Traded Activism for Social Science
Finding your voice as a public scholar can be a struggle. Roberto G. Gonzales explains why it was for him.
School & District Management
Opinion
To Become a Public Scholar, I Had to Face a Reality
Want to work on research that will actually help students? Sometimes the greatest obstacle to public engagement is oneself, writes Nora Gordon.
School & District Management
Opinion
Ed. Researchers, Here's How to Actually Improve Policy
Public scholarship isn't just about sounding off on social media. Here are four lessons to make your research count, from Katharine O. Strunk.
Education
What's Behind the Grades and Scores?
How does the Education Week Research Center determine the grades given to states and the nation in the 2019 Quality Counts report? Learn more about the report's grading scale, methodology, and sources.
States
How Education Helps Set the Course from Cradle to Career
A host of factors affect a person’s prospect of positive outcomes over the course of a lifetime. Here’s why some of these key indicators matter so much.
School Climate & Safety
Discipline Spotlight Back on States, Districts
School districts have decisions to make about how—or whether—to change their approach to school discipline, following the Trump administration's decision last month to repeal Obama-era guidance concerning racial disparities in suspensions and expulsions.
School Climate & Safety
The Federal School Safety Commission in Six Key Takeaways
States and school districts would bear the weight of implementing most of the recommendations on how to safeguard students and school staff from mass shootings and other violence.
School Climate & Safety
Racial Bullying Rose in Communities That Favored Trump in 2016
A Virginia study documents an increase in race-related bullying in middle schools in communities that voted for President Donald Trump, and a drop in those that favored Hilary Clinton.
Special Education
Report Roundup
Research Report: Special Education
Charter schools are less likely to respond to application inquiries from parents of students with severe disabilities, according to researchers from Columbia University and the University of Florida.
Science
Report Roundup
STEM Education
Despite a push for greater STEM instruction, students and teachers continue to experience inequitable access to STEM-related classes and resources, according to a new survey of 1,200 schools and 7,600 teachers.
School & District Management
Report Roundup
Report Cards
No student is eager to show her parents a less-than-stellar report card, but bad grades may put some children at risk for physical abuse.
Ed-Tech Policy
Report Roundup
Research Report: Education Technology
More than two-thirds of districts are very confident in their networks' ability to support a digital device for every student, and nearly a quarter of districts now average two devices for each student, finds the latest annual report of the Consortium for School Networking.
Curriculum
News in Brief
Copyright Expirations Open Up Thousands of Literary, Music, Film Works to Teachers
Thousands of works of literature, music, and film have now become part of the public domain—meaning that anyone can use and reprint them, free of charge and without permission.
Education Funding
News in Brief
New Jersey Doubles State Funding for Security at Private Schools
New Jersey private schools will get a boost in funding for security measures under a new law.
Education
News in Brief
N.M. Governor Suspends Testing System Affecting Students and Teacher Reviews
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has set in motion the replacement of the current statewide standardized-testing system with a pair of executive orders that also call for removing those exam results from controversial teacher evaluations.
Education Funding
News in Brief
Montana Supreme Court Strikes Down Tax-Credit Program for Private Schools
Montana's highest court has struck down a tuition tax-credit program which, as enacted by that state's legislature, allowed tuition scholarships to benefit students at private religious schools as well as secular schools.
School & District Management
News in Brief
One School's Bad Data Skew National Absenteeism Ratings
Flawed data on student absences from one Maryland school district has skewed a national analysis. When the error was corrected and the analysis revised, the state dropped from having the highest rate of chronic absenteeism in the country to having the 10th highest rate.
School Climate & Safety
News in Brief
Court Finds Broward Officials Had No Constitutional Duty to Protect Students
A federal judge says Broward County schools and the sheriff's office had no legal duty to protect students during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last February.
Education
News in Brief
Transitions
Several states have named new education leaders in recent weeks.
Education
Correction
Correction
In a Jan. 9, 2019, story 'Bilingualism for Whom,' a funding request from the state board of education in Washington state was incorrectly described. The $250,000 request, if awarded, would pay for low-income students' testing fees.
States
State Grades on Chance for Success: 2019 Map and Rankings
Examine the grades and scores that states and the nation earned on the Chance-for-Success Index in Quality Counts 2019, along with how they scored on a host of socioeconomic and other indicators that go into those rankings.
Assessment
New Setback for PARCC as Another State Abandons Test
New Mexico’s defection from the PARCC test set off another round of speculation that the exam will become extinct, but PARCC’s overseers have other plans.
Teaching Profession
All Eyes Are on Los Angeles as 30,000 Teachers Prepare to Strike
The strike in the nation's second-largest district is the first major teacher labor action planned for 2019, following a remarkable year of statewide protests and walkouts.
Professional Development
Gates Giving Millions to Train Teachers on 'High Quality' Curricula
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to invest about $10 million to improve how teachers are taught to use and modify curricula that are well aligned to state learning standards.