Brought to you by Beltone – A leader in hearing healthcare. Humboldt Education Foundation (HEF) just awarded the first round of Humboldt Unified School District (HUSD) classroom grants to teachers for the 2020-2021 school year. Aimee Fleming, Principal of Lake Valley Elementary and HEF board member, said, “This grant cycle, […]
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Danielle Del Plato The litany of tragedies and inconveniences visited upon Americans by COVID-19 is long, but one of the more pronounced sources of misery for parents has been pandemic schooling. The logistical gymnastics necessary to balance work and school when all the crucial resources—time, physical space, internet bandwidth, emotional […]
Teachers did not enter their jobs planning to be front-line workers in a pandemic. Parents fortunate enough to keep their jobs did not envision managing a day care in their impromptu home offices. Students did not anticipate that they would not be able to share lunch time with their favorite […]
The administration is likely to prioritize the immense backlog of loan forgiveness claims that the Trump administration let pile up, and the denials of assistance the department has issued to students who claim they were cheated by their colleges, according to officials familiar with the plans. Among the thousands of […]
After years of part-time adjunct work while a full-time educator in K-12 settings, I made the leap last year into a full-time visiting professorship as part of the educational studies department at a small liberal arts college in the same district where I had served for my tenure in education […]
Newswise — The beginning of the coronavirus pandemic presented many challenges for educators, as teachers across grade levels, content areas, and geographic regions quickly transitioned their in-person classrooms to online environments. Many educators found themselves engaged in online teaching for the first time with little knowledge about how to deliver […]
Millions of schoolchildren in the United States remain in virtual-only school, and some 5.5 million of them have limited contact with a live teacher – even online. According to a report by USAFacts, about 65% of households with children used online learning during the pandemic, and about the same percentage […]
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Text size Dreamstime The challenge of school and college reopening has taken national interest in education to a level unseen since 1958, when the Russian launch of Sputnik led the U.S. to link national security with education. The National Defense in Education Act significantly added federal funding to enhance science […]
Courtesy of Georgetown University “There’s been more experimentation with pedagogy in the last five months at Georgetown than in the last 200 years.” — Douglas Reed of Georgetown University As the nation grapples with the ever-widening coronavirus pandemic and the imminent start of the 2020-21 school year, families are scrambling […]
A lot of interest, Schachtel says, seems to be stemming from New Jersey, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The San Francisco-based Facebook group Pandemic Pods and Microschools, for instance, now has more than 9,500 members. The group was started by Lian Chang, who wanted to find a safe way for […]
In this time of every kind of uncertainty, one of the most troubling decisions Americans must make is: which is worse, the possibility of exposing teachers and students to a deadly disease or the certainty of impairing the education of an entire generation of students by keeping them out of […]
TRENTON, NJ — The leaders of the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association (NJPSA), and the New Jersey Association of School Administrators are calling on Gov. Murphy and the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) to direct all public schools to open remotely this fall. This […]
People stand out on Park Square in Pittsfield, Mass. on Monday, June 15, 2020, in support of funding for education as part of a statewide “Day of Action” through the Massachusetts Teachers Association. Locals across the state held rallies or car caravans to bring awareness to the funding issues across […]
Tailoring your special education resources for remote learning is more important than ever during this time of COVID-19 and schools moving to virtual instruction to keep students and families safe. With stay-at-home orders placed across the country amid the pandemic, distance learning quickly became the norm. And while adjusting to […]
(This is the second post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here.) The new “question-of-the-week” is: What key lessons that you learned in the spring are you planning to bring to the new school year and what will they look like on a day-to-day basis? This new […]
Teachers are stocking up on face coverings, hoping to protect themselves and their students from the coronavirus as some U.S. schools begin in-person instruction. Many states and school districts have said they would provide personal-protective equipment to those who need it, but some teachers say they haven’t received it yet […]
Philly has a teacher turnover problem. Although challenges with teacher retention are not unique to Philadelphia, high teacher-turnover rates tend to be more drastic in large urban school districts that disproportionately serve high rates of low-income students and students of color. In 2018, a study by the Philadelphia Education Research […]
Aimee Rodriguez Webb reads emails at her dining room table, which she set up as a virtual classroom in Marietta, Ga. After a rocky transition to distance learning last spring, Webb bought a dry-erase board and a special camera for displaying worksheets. —AP Photo/Brynn Anderson Even in schools offering face-to-face […]