Wednesday May 20th from 11:00am – 11:30pm EDT Join us for a conversation with child protection advocate Francey Hakes, who will be discussing rules to establish safety regarding kids and smartphones, including what constitutes a “friend,” and the topic of cyberbullying. Hakes was the first-ever National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, and a former Assistant U.S. Attorney specializing in technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation. Note: You must RSVP to the event in order to see it. Click on the link below and enter your name and email. You’ll receive a response with the link to the event. RSVP
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If you look at the numbers, there’s the typical mix of good news/bad news for this year’s crop of college graduates. Let’s start with the good news.According to the National Center for Education Statistics, colleges and universities expect to award about 1.8 million bachelor’s degrees. Experts are noting that this class faces the most favorable job climate in years, due to a pent up demand for workers.
by Thomas KaplanIn a campaign-style tour meant to put pressure on lawmakers, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo visited churches and a yeshiva on Sunday to promote a bill to give tax credits to families of students at private schools, including religious ones.Read the rest of the story at The New York Times.
Bullying remains a serious issue for students and their families, and efforts to reduce bullying concern policy makers, administrators, and educators. According to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, “As schools become safer, students are better able to thrive academically and socially. The Department, along with our federal partners and others, has been deeply involved in the fight against bullying in our nation’s schools.” This is why we are so pleased to share that, after remaining virtually unchanged for close to a decade, new data indicate that the prevalence of bullying is at a record low.Read the rest of the story at the Homeroom blog at the U.S. Department of Education website.
by Arianna ProtheroA Michigan lawmaker’s push to regulate home schooling in the wake of a horrific case of child abuse is stoking anew a broader debate over the rights of parents to educate their children at home with little oversight from school and government officials.Like Michigan, few states obligate home-schooled students to meet regularly with mandatory reporters—people such as doctors, certified teachers, or clergy members—who might catch signs of abuse and report it, according to the advocacy and research group Coalition for Responsible Home Education.Read the rest of the story at Education Week.
by Maureen SullivanCarly Fiorina, the former CEO and chairman of Hewlett-Packard, today announced her run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. She has never held public office and calls her run a “return to citizen government.” She pokes fun at her undergraduate degree from Stanford in medieval history and philosophy but says it comes in handy when she wants to poke holes in President Obama’s comparison of ISIS terrorism with the Crusades.Read the rest of the story on Forbes.
edCircuit conducts a Skype interview with Michelle Herczog, president of the National Council for the Social Studies. Herczog talks about the importance of this subject area, the latest NAEP results in social studies, and the C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards.
by Sean CoughlanEducation correspondentThe biggest ever global school rankings have been published, with Asian countries in the top five places and African countries at the bottom.Singapore heads the table, followed by Hong Kong, with Ghana at the bottom.Read the rest of the story at BBC News.
The School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas is the nation’s No. 1 public high school for the fourth consecutive year.by Alexandra PannoniRead the rest of the story at U.S. News.
by Lee Lawrence, CorrespondentNASHVILLE, TENN.; AND NEW YORK — To Samson Boyd, a father in Nashville, Tenn., simple addition used to be a straightforward proposition: Four plus four equals eight. But in today’s era of newfangled math, kids are taught various ways to arrive at the right answer.Read the rest of the story at The Christian Science Monitor.
By T. Rees ShapiroThis story has been updated.A University of Virginia associate dean of students filed a multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone on Tuesday, alleging that the magazine portrayed her as callous and indifferent to allegations of sexual assault on campus and made her the university’s “chief villain” in a now-debunked story about a fraternity gang rape.Read the rest of the story at The Washington Post.
NPR StaffThis weekend, the Class of 2015 graduated from Howard University, a historically black college located about a mile from NPR’s headquarters. The new graduates include two of the students who have spent the last semester talking with NPR’sWeekend Edition about their college experience.Leighton Watson and Keven Peterman are still kind of in denial.Read the rest of the story and hear the interviews at NPR.
by Motoko RichMENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. — In this small suburb outside Milwaukee, no one in the Menomonee Falls School District escapes the rigorous demands of data.Custodians monitor dirt under bathroom sinks, while the high school cafeteria supervisor tracks parent and student surveys of lunchroom food preferences. Administrators record monthly tallies of student disciplinary actions, and teachers post scatter plot diagrams of quiz scores on classroom walls. Even kindergartners use brightly colored dots on charts to show how many letters or short words they can recognize.Read the rest of the story at The New York Times.
Discover expert insights on modern school security as Mike Richez discusses proactive social media threat monitoring and digital safety solutions for schools.
by Doug BoltonNicky Morgan has been reappointed as Education Secretary in David Cameron’s post-election cabinet reshuffle.Morgan, who took over from the unpopular Michael Gove in July, dramatically increased her majority in election and has been rewarded with the same brief as before.The reappointment has proved controversial with some teachers, as Morgan, like her predecessor Gove, has no teaching experience.Read the rest of the story at The Independent.