Music education beginning to be embedded in early education
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09/30/2016 | Washington, DC | Herald Chronicle U.S. Department of Education awards $245 million to support high-quality public charter schools Herald Chronicle September 28, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Education announced today new grants totaling approximately $245 million under its Charter Schools Program (CSP), which funds the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the nation. Today’s grants are being awarded to state educational agencies and charter management organizations. The CSP supports the creation of high-quality public charter schools by providing start-up funds for new charter schools, strengthening accountability for charter school performance, sharing leading practices that enable school success, and ultimately, improving educational outcomes for students from high-need communities. The CSP has invested over $3 billion since the program’s inception in 1995 to states and charter school developers. In the past decade, CSP investments have enabled the launch of over 2,500 charter schools, serving approximately one million …
09/22/2016 | Houston, TX | Houston Chronicle
Alex Terego | Author THE REAL BLAME IS WITH THE LAWMAKERS AND BUREAUCRATS. A HISTORICAL CONTEXT. Good intentions, poor leadership, and unforeseen consequences have brought us over the past few decades to this Crisis In Education. 1965. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed as a part of President Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty. And it has been the most far-reaching federal legislation affecting education ever passed by the US Congress.
09/21/16 | Washington, DC | The Washington Post
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (October 20, 2016) Choosito! Inc., curator of open Web content for learning and National Science Foundation Business Innovation Award winner, and Quick Key, maker of mobile assessment software, have partnered to offer students personalized learning content based on quizzes and other data. Choosito! wants to better understand the needs of students who search its libraries of open Web content. Choosito! curates its libraries using proprietary machine learning and text analysis, and then delivers that content directly to students based on reading level, subject matter, and other criteria. Quick Key, whose 40,000 worldwide teacher users have taught millions of students using its mobile formative assessment platform, wants to use data from question items and quiz results to personalize students’ learning experiences. “This partnership will help students reach their learning goals by giving them access to resources appropriate to their reading level, matched to the relevant subject matter, and curated …
“Higher education is an incredibly important alternative to more negative outcomes: crime, radicalization, and early marriage for young women. Education can provide a pathway to integration within the country and durable solutions for Turkey and Syria.”
In this episode, Lee Banville, Editor at Games and Learning, discusses the evolving role of women in game-based learning.
For quite some time now, Election 2016 has taken a dark and lewd turn. Whether it be the aggressive sexualization of women or nasty political rhetoric, media coverage is eating it up and ignoring candidates stances on critical issues that voters need to hear. Education is especially quiet during this election cycle, amongst other issues, both in the media and even in classrooms. Where normally young students are rightfully exposed to civics, the debates are perhaps too inappropriate for young and impressionable minds.
In this interview, Neil Virani, an LAUSD Human Resources Division teacher adviser, discusses the District Intern Program and special education.
In this interview, Thomas Arnett shares his view on the need for more collaboration between EdTech developers and teachers.
You’ve done it. You’ve studied hard for four years and made your way to high school graduation. Your college has been chosen, the mini fridge and floor lamp are packed in the overstuffed car, and you’ve said goodbye to your home-town friends. But one thing is weighing on your mind – how do I afford this? The thing is – most can’t.
Matthew Peterson, Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Senior Scientist at MIND Research Institute, spoke about his involvement in the Institute and the overall state of mathematic learning in our nation. Peterson points to a number of alarming statistics that indicate how high school students are graduating with drastically inefficient math skills.
Soundtrap, a cloud-based music and audio recording platform, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. Nordic VC firm Industrifonden led the round, with participation from an array of existing investors and other new backers, including Peter Sterky, former CFO and COO of Spotify. It brings total funding to $8.5 million.
In this episode, John Zirkle, Director, and Music Teacher for The Big Sky School District in Montana, shares his involvement in the Hatch Ostinato Project.