On Tuesday, January 19th, the U.S. Department of Education held a Public Hearing at UCLA to gather comments for transition to the new ESSA Every Student Succeeds Act. Approximately eighty speakers from a variety of educational institutions and organizations made statements and recommendations related to the new law. Each speaker had five minutes to comment.…
Please find below new updates, research, and resources for strengthening school climate, eliminating discipline disparities, and supporting social and emotional learning in schools. The full collections are available here and here. The following posts may also be accessed by clicking the corresponding image. Picture above is from the Restorative Schools Vision Project. “In this new documentary from Coleman…
Originally posted on Seattle Education. On Friday, September 4th, the Supreme Court of Washington State ruled that charter schools were neither public nor constitutional and could receive no public funding. From Seattle Times: State Supreme Court: Charter Schools are Unconstitutional http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/state-supreme-court-charter-schools-are-unconstitutional/ For more: http://bit.ly/chart_look To read full court decision, click here.
A recent report from the Public Policy Institute reveals that the majority of California’s public school parents are uninformed about the new tests their children took this past year. And despite numerous concerns regarding the lack of validity, technological barriers, biases, and test administration problems, “test scores” soon will be released to the public. The following includes adapted selections of a…
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