SPECIAL REPORT
Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills
Many educators are explicitly teaching such skills as how to evaluate a website's credibility, how to use precise keywords, and how to better mine search engines. (May 24, 2013)
• Special Report Digital Curricula Evolving
The District of Columbia public schools have devoted many resources to the standards, resulting in hopes, frustrations, and the knowledge that changes are necessary. (May 22, 2013)
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Curriculum Matters Blog
From the Wires
- • Federal cuts affect poorest Kansas schools
- • Parents, ACLU oppose creationism curriculum in OH
- • Jackson school principal suspended
States Pressing Schools to Add 'Intruder' Drills
Proposed mandates for emergency-preparedness drills are gaining traction in many statehouses. (May 23, 2013)
K-12 PARENTS AND THE PUBLIC BLOG
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Opinion
COMMENTARY
How to Make School Funding Fair
Shifting to statewide school funding systems would address inequities in the way education is paid for, writes Cynthia G. Brown. (May 23, 2013)
COMMENTARY
The Common Core Needs a Common Curriculum
The content of instruction should be a communal, research-based, and experience-based decision, writes Lisa Hansel. (May 20, 2013)
Leadership 360 Blog
Anti-Gay Violence Should Be Our Call to Action
Leaders, teachers, and adults who work with children have a responsibility to teach inclusion, acceptance, kindness, and understanding, write Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers. (May 23, 2013)
Yearly Special Reports
School Districts Under Pressure to Modernize
Schools are working to incorporate more multimedia into classrooms, upgrade online professional development, and do a better job using data to improve student achievement. Read the full report.
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N.Y.C.-IBM Partnership Focuses on Students' Tech. Skills
A public-private partnership between the New York schools' P-TECH program and IBM Corp. aims to develop students' technological skills, and gives them priority for future jobs at IBM.
Digital Directions
E-Rate Needs Overhaul for Digital Era, Experts Argue
The federal program is in danger of becoming as outdated and insufficient as a sputtering dial-up connection in a Wi-Fi world, many ed-tech leaders say.
(May 20, 2013)
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FIRST PERSON
Setting the Record Straight on Ability Grouping
Ability grouping may get a bad rap, but research shows that it can be an effective, low-cost intervention when used with flexibility, says the president of the National Association for Gifted Children. (May 24, 2013)
Industry & Innovation
MOOCs Provider Targets
In attempting to bring "MOOCs" to the world of teacher training, Coursera and its university partners are courting a new and potentially vast audience.
(May 20, 2013)
Professional Development
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- • States Use School Score Cards to Target Climate Problems
- • Making Teacher Evaluation a Launch Pad for Growth
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