School District of Philadelphia (PA) Superintendent Tony Watlington is accelerating a post-pandemic learning recovery in the nation’s 8th largest school district (200,000+ students) with curriculum rollouts, facilities improvements and more agenda action items, according to
A recent article in Forbes magazine, written by Lutz Finger, a data scientist in residence at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management with extensive experience as a technologist and product manager, lists the meaningful changes
The Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork, located in Walkertown, North Carolina, serves approximately 300 K–5 students and is piloting an innovative teaching model, as described in an Appalachian Today article. Rather than a
Most states have begun to require K-12 schools to use early screening to assess students’ risk for reading problems like dyslexia, according to an article in Education Week. Many states want all students to receive
In the past decade, the U.S. Department of Justice has invested in research projects to get at the root causes of school violence and how best to make K-12 schools safer, according to the CU
More school districts are investing in the expansion and renewal of high-school shop classes — “betting on the future of manual skills overlooked in the digital age,” according to The Wall Street Journal. This growth
As AI evolves, educators must be proactive in shaping how it is used, write Dr. Steve Baule, Dillon Martinez, Dr. Shauna Mayer, and Dr. Ray Martinez in an eSchool News essay. Instructional coaches play a
Middle school students in Alabama will use virtual reality to experience what occupations such as construction and transportation are like in a pilot program from Jefferson State Community College, according to an article in K-12
“As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers, writes teacher and assistant principal Jeremy Kaplan in a Chalkbeat New York essay. “The best teaching had
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