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Closing the Racial Education Gap: Learning from Florida’s Reforms

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Big Gaps Small Gaps in Serving Hispanic Students | Education Trust

Big Gaps Small Gaps in Serving African-American Students | Education Trust

Publications About Access to Success | Education Trust

Publications About Access to Success | Education Trust

The New Vision for School Counseling | Education Trust

National Center for Transforming School Counseling | Education Trust

Core Beliefs - The Broad Center

Core Beliefs - The Broad Center

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M. H. Lopez &amp; R. Fry, Pew Hispanic Center 05/14 by Latino Role Models Success | Business Podcasts

M. H. Lopez &amp; R. Fry, Pew Hispanic Center 05/14 by Latino Role Models Success | Business Podcasts

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ScienceDaily : Your source for the latest research news.

ScienceDaily : Your source for the latest research news.

Increasing Student Success at Minority-Serving Institutions: Findings from the BEAMS Project Del Rios, Melissa; Leegwater, Lacey Institute for Higher Education Policy This monograph details the process Building Engagement and Attainment for Minority Students (BEAMS) institutions used to craft data-driven action plans to improve student success. More than 100 four-year Historically Black, Hispanic-Serving, and Tribal colleges and universities participated in the five-year program that produced best practices available for replication by institutions across the nation. Among the key findings and practices that have emerged for successful data collection and use include: (1) align data collection methods with institutional capacity; (2) draw on available internal and external resources; (3) develop a framework to interpret data results. Certain practices have emerged during the BEAMS project that have led to short-term successes in identifying campus concerns and implementing...

In students In school librarians innovation experimenting and designing in makerspaces strengthening Personal Learning Networks to share & implement ideas creativity writing & sharing blogs, stories, fan fiction, original games, web series, videos, & music expanding students’ opportunities to use digital devices through BYOT/D initiatives entrepreneurship using social media to spread messages & extend reach funding school library initiatives with grants across disciplines critical thinking recognizing and solving real problems; developing and pursuing inquiry questions; showcasing through capstone or digital portfolios strategic planning & communication for advocacy to stakeholders independent and unique contributions, processes, and learning products applying & exploring individual interests and strengths to projects & extracurricular endeavors new collaborations with classroom teachers, public librarians, & community o...

Jessica Jimenez Ramos is Urban Ed Girl. Understanding & Discovering Urban education and the affluent Ghetto!

Teacher gets global exposure plus increased earnings with WizIQ in Share 13 Sunita Kadian chooses WizIQ for its  complete   course management tools , along with the WizIQ  Virtual Classroom .  She teaches live English classes and other courses  on WizIQ. In the first two years, she has gained global exposure and increases earnings by almost 100% with WizIQ. Students from around the globe attend her two ongoing courses, without the need to travel or commute.

Many companies today are getting into mobile learning, but so are grade  schools . It is only natural since students are often engaging with  mobile devices  outside of the classroom anyhow. Grunwald Associates LLC recently conducted a survey on mobile learning in the K-12 space. In this survey of 2,392 parents, they gathered metrics regarding current mobile use, expectations, and impact on students. This particular study defined mobile devices as “wireless handheld devices that use wi-fi, 3G or 4G to connect to the internet, many of which use an operating system such as iOS, Windows or Android, and can run various types of apps (i.e. smartphones, tablets, e-readers, and the iPod Touch).” Mobile Devices at Home According to the study, the majority of children at all grade levels (which included preschool through 12th grade in the United States) have some form of access to a variety of technology at home, including mobile devices. Specifically, the survey foun...

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CURRICULUM: Driving While Black/Driving While Brown: A Mathematics Project About Racial Profiling

Curriculum: Movement and Storytelling in Art

CURRICULUM: Using Maps to Explore Place Awareness Through Abstract Design

CURRICULUM: Something is Wrong: Exploring the Roots of Youth Violence

Planning to Change the World: A Plan Book for Social Justice Teachers

Teaching Trayvon Martin and Other Resources

School Closings Curriculum - Teaching For Social Justice

Vietnamese Americans: Lessons in American History | Teaching Tolerance

Confronting White Privilege | Teaching Tolerance

Meeting Mathew | Teaching Tolerance

Teacher Leadership | Teaching Tolerance

A New Set of Rules | Teaching Tolerance

Teaching the Movement: The State Standards We Deserve | Teaching Tolerance

Immigrant Charter Schools: A Better Choice? | Teaching Tolerance

Rethinking Parent-Teacher Conferences | Teaching Tolerance

Promises to Black Boys—Kept and Broken | Teaching Tolerance

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL L.A. Schools Promote Free Tutoring for Some Students September 23, 2003 | Duke Helfand, Times Staff Writer Los Angeles school officials on Monday urged parents whose children attend chronically underperforming schools to apply for free tutoring in math and English, which begins in November. The Los Angeles Unified School District mailed applications earlier this month to 186,000 students, from 104 schools, who are eligible for the extra assistance.

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Push is on to close college gap for California's Latinos November 11, 2013 | By Carla Rivera As a freshman at Cal State San Marcos, Cipriano Vargas' grades were so low, his part-time job waiting tables so consuming and his home life with eight siblings so chaotic that he was on the verge of dropping out. The first-generation college student and son of parents with an elementary school education struggled to maintain a 1.9 grade point average. "I didn't have the skill or ability to manage time," said Vargas, 21. "My parents didn't understand the complexity of going to college, that it wasn't just two hours of classes and then I'm back home.

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Funding for L.A. Unified's iPad program uncertain after three years November 5, 2013 | By Howard Blume A $1-billion plan to put an iPad into the hands of every Los Angeles student and teacher could prove difficult to financially sustain after about three years, based on figures provided by the L.A. Unified School District. The district's description of funding options emerged during a Board of Education meeting Tuesday at district headquarters. Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy has called the technology upgrade an essential academic initiative. He has also noted that new state tests are supposed to be taken on a computer. CALIFORNIA | LOCAL L.A. Unified's iPad rollout marred by chaos October 1, 2013 | By Howard Blume and Stephen Ceasar At a taco truck near Maya Angelou Community High School in South Los Angeles, senior Ramiro Gonzalez showed off his school-issued iPad tucked into his backpack Tuesday, excite...

OPINION Letters: The price of an 'elite' education October 30, 2013 Re "Privilege and pressure," Oct. 28 The article asks whether standards are too high at Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City. The real question is whether standards have sunk too low. At some private schools, the pursuit of excellence is now a smoke screen for meeting the narcissistic needs of parents, helping them compete in an overprivileged class where they demand the very best of everything. Truly great schools focus on the rounded development of the whole student. So when the emotional health of children becomes less important than bragging rights about the number of elite college acceptance letters or having the best stats to put in a brochure, that school needs to raise its standards.

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Napolitano commits funds to aid UC students who entered U.S. illegally October 30, 2013 | By Larry Gordon UC President Janet Napolitano, tackling one of the hot button issues facing her new leadership, announced Wednesday that she will authorize $5 million in university funds to help students who entered the country illegally and do not qualify for federal financial aid. In her first major address since taking office, she also said she will boost support for graduate and postdoctoral researchers by $10 million. Napolitano has encountered some protests in her first month on the job because of what critics contend was the increase in deportations that she oversaw as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security.

OPINION No longer swearing by cursive writing September 4, 2013 | By The Times editorial board For all the new things that schools will be called on to teach under the soon-to-be-implemented Common Core curriculum standards, it's a skill that has been omitted that is causing controversy: cursive writing. Good old script penmanship isn't part of the standards, which have been adopted by 45 states, including California. It's not forbidden or discouraged, but Common Core focuses on analytical and computer-based skills rather than the long hours of practice required to link letters in a flowing style.

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Dual-language immersion programs growing in popularity May 8, 2011 | By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times In a Glendale public school classroom, the immigrant's daughter uses no English as she conjugates verbs and writes sentences about cats. More than a decade after California voters eliminated most bilingual programs, first-grader Sofia Checchi is taught in Italian nearly all day — as she and her 20 classmates at Franklin Elementary School have been since kindergarten. Yet in just a year, Sofia has jumped a grade level in reading English. In the view of her mother — an Italian immigrant — Sofia's achievement validates a growing body of research indicating that learning to read in students' primary languages helps them become more fluent in English.

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL John Deasy to stay on as L.A. Unified schools chief October 29, 2013 | By Howard Blume, Stephen Ceasar and Teresa Watanabe L.A. schools chief John Deasy will continue to lead the nation's second-largest school district through June 2016, the district's legal counsel announced Tuesday, ending days of speculation about his future. Deasy, 52, received a satisfactory evaluation from the L.A. Unified Board of Education during a nearly five-hour, closed-door meeting. Last week, he told some high-level district officials he would resign amid reports that he was frustrated by a new school board majority that challenged his policies and philosophy.

URBAN ED GIRL IN THE FIELD @ COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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"Why Race? | Center for Urban Education" http://feedly.com/k/17JGLlg

"Addressing Latino Outcomes at California's Hispanic-Serving Institutions | Center for Urban Education" http://feedly.com/k/17JGCOR

"Institute for Equity Effectiveness and Excellence at HSIs | Center for Urban Education" http://feedly.com/k/17JGA9z

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Florida law gives students and colleges flexibility on remediation | Inside Higher Ed

Jeb Bush to Common Core critics: drop the conspiracy theories

Diane Ravitch: School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools

Behind the Headline: ‘White Moms’ Remark Fuels Common Core Clash : Education Next

Proposed charter school contracts draw fire from Florida school districts

The vanguard for a new generation of Catholic schools

Catholic schools grapple with Common Core concerns

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Florida schools roundup: Magnet schools, charters, teacher evals & more

Florida schools roundup: Private schools, charters, district choices & more

Florida schools roundup: Magnet schools, charters, Common Core & more

Florida schools roundup: Career ed, early learning, Common Core & more

Florida schools roundup: Magnet schools, charters, Common Core & more

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Artistic talent development for urban youth: The promise and the challenge

Investigating the educational impact and potential of the Museum of Modern Art’s Visual Thinking Curriculum: Final report

Studio thinking: How visual arts teaching can promote disciplined habits of mind

Mute those claims: No evidence (yet) for a causal link between arts study and academic achievement

Singing one’s way to self-regulation: The role of early music and movement curricula and private speech

Why the arts matter in education or just what do children learn when they create an opera

Effects on an integrated reading and music instructional approach on fifth-grade students’ reading achievement, reading attitude, music achievement, and music attitude.

Professional Development The P.S. ARTS Professional Development Program works to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in our partner schools by providing training and resources for Teaching Artists, Classroom Teachers, and school district administrators. At P.S. ARTS, professional development happens in several areas: District Partnerships Los Angeles Unified School District P.S. ARTS is a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Arts Community Partnership network (ACPN), which provides professional development for its classroom teachers. A number of LAUSD schools have chosen P.S. ARTS to provide six-week residencies in visual arts, music, theater and dance to focus on building Classroom Teachers’ skills in incorporating the arts into their classrooms. Several other school districts, including the Lennox and the Bassett Unified School districts have employed P.S. ARTS professional development services. Lawndale Elementary School District Our new instructional...

Community Outreach Join us on Saturday, June 1st at R.H. Dana Middle School in Hawthorne for the TakePART in Art Festival: Cultivating Community! Through the organization’s Community Outreach Program, P.S. ARTS also coordinates with school principals and parent groups to provide parent education and community outreach services, including cultural experiences for our partner schools’ families. P.S. ARTS hosts “Family Art Nights” in an effort to engage multigenerational family members and the community in our programs and the arts. These events feature free, hands-on family themed arts projects. P.S. ARTS Teaching Artists, Administrative Staff, and volunteers lead families through lesson-based projects that are inspired by master artists. These events have become extraordinarily popular with hundreds of students, siblings, parents, and grandparents in attendance at the school. In addition to the arts projects, families are given information about their students’ music program, how to ...

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