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Education Issues Today

As a parent, you want your children to do well in school, and make plenty of friends, but above all you want them to be safe. The first step is to stay informed on the issues that can potentially create an unsafe environment for your kids. Learn about some of these issues and what you can do about them.

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Are High Schools Failing Their Students?

The Need Does earning a diploma guarantee that a high school graduate is ready for work and college? It should, for ...

Source: The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
Should Race be a Factor in Assigning Students to Public Schools?

The U.S. Supreme Court decides two major cases this spring involving the use of race in assigning students to public ...

Source: American Association of School Administrators
Educating Our Youth

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? - Cicero, 106-43 B.C.E ...

Source: Faith and the City
One Region, Two Environments

When Faith And The City invited me to write a guest column on the physical and social environments, I welcomed the ...

Source: Faith and the City
Maker of SAT Aims New Test at 8th Graders

Officials at the New York City-based College Board last week rolled out their newest product: ReadiStep. No, it’s ...

Source: Education Week
Study Says Most 1st Grade Classes Not High Quality

A study of 820 1st grade classrooms suggests that many are not as warm, friendly, and academically stimulating as some ...

Source: Education Week
Sustaining Improvement Efforts Over the Long Run

Maintain: To keep in an existing state; CARRY ON, KEEP UP Sustain: To give support or supply with sustenance; NOURISH, ...

Source: The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
Linking Literacy and Language with Social and Emotional Learning

Six children surround Ms. Kirby, sitting on the floor in the reading center. They're reading Welcome Home Little Bear ...

Source: Committee for Children
SECOND STEP Success in Washington, DC

"We have schools that are really starting to see some significant changes in regard to implementing with fidelity ...

Source: Committee for Children
How Latino Parents Can Help Children Succeed in School

Considering the less favorable academic performance and high school dropout rates of Latino youth in the U.S. (National ...

Source: Education.com

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SECOND STEP Success in Washington, DC

Source: Committee for Children
The Lowdown on Single-Sex Education

Source: Education.com
To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate?

Source: Education.com
New School Nutrition Guidelines Recommended to Curb Childhood Obesity

Source: Education.com
The End of Fuzzy Math?

Source: Education.com
Coming of Age in Rural America

Source: Education.com
Culturally Sensitive Approaches to Support Grief in the Classroom

Source: Education.com
The Diversity Debate

Source: Education.com
Crisis in Math Education

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Dramatic Results in LAUSD: A SECOND STEP Model Schools Story

Source: Committee for Children

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