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  1. A yellow diamond road sign reading CHANGE AHEAD against a deep blue evening sky, close upWhy Professional Development Should Be Embraced in the Education SectorThe word sabbatical brings to mind connotations of higher education. It’s unheard of for K-12 teachers to take time a one-year leave and dedicate themselves to research. Why is this not widely accepted? If teachers plan on remaining in their profession for an extended period, how will they build relevant knowledge and be better educators for their students? Should teachers still learn? Scientific American understands the challenges of doing so. Teaching is a labor-intensive profession. It’s challenging to find access to innovative and informative workshops, and a new standard of professional development should be put into place.Aug 94 min readEdCircuit Staff
  2. A young girl in glasses and a leopard-print jacket typing on a laptop at a coding workshop, other children working in the background, bright roomKids Who Code: Why Schools Should Make Basic Coding MandatoryCurrent lesson plans allow students to, memorize the subject matter instead of honing their computational thinking skills.Aug 54 min readEdCircuit Staff
  3. A paper napkin on a wooden table with a hand-drawn mind map in red ink linking PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING to TAXES, INSURANCE, RETIREMENT, EDUCATION and ESTATEShow Me The Money: Lack of Financial Literacy Education in Schools Leads to Poor Personal FinanceTake a walk down memory lane with me. Imagine you’re entering the good ole’ college days again - your freshman year. You did everything in your power to avoid math classes in High School and hope to do the same now that you’ve reached higher education. Your new debit card is burning a hole in your pocket, and mom and dad are no longer around to tell you “no”. You’re officially on your own. Today, too many students are getting away with not being immersed in economic courses. In fact, statistics show that it’s getting worse.Aug 53 min readEdCircuit Staff
  4. A lively display of colorful handprints on a textured urban wall, showcasing street art creativityAutism Spectrum Disorder: The Power Of Inclusion, Research and EducationedCircuit Opinion The Scientific American article For Children With Autism, Multiple Languages May Be A Boon raises an important point about the impacts of language education on children with autism.  In the United States, bilingual families with children on the autism spectrum have traditionally been advised to raise those children speaking only English.  But according to new research, this advice “only intensifies the alienation experienced by these children” by isolating them from their families, who may not speak English at home.Aug 34 min readEdCircuit Staff
  5. School supplies around a hand writing back to school on a chalkboard“No More Pencils, No More Books”: Can Schools Afford To Keep Up With Technology?edCircuit Opinion: Walk into any public school today and what do you see? Most likely groups of desks for students to sit, shelves filled with books intended to strengthen their imagination and support their pursuit of learning, or hopefully a room filled with computers. We’ve entered the 21st century, and technology is more prevalent now more than ever before. It’s common to see a child sitting quietly, playing the latest popular game on their iPad. Or teens (and adults!), completely consumed by their smartphones.Aug 23 min readEdCircuit Staff
  6. A young man in a dark hoodie and glasses hunched intently over a laptop, side view, plain grey backgroundNo Woman Left Behind: How Lack Of Computer Science Education Can Alter The Path Of Today’s Female YouthedCircuit Opinion In the article Get ‘em While They’re Young: The Hearts and Minds of Coding and Data Science, The Huffington Post shared shocking statistics regarding computer education in U.S. schools, only 10% of which teach children to code. The U.S. is trailing behind countries such as Britain, Estonia, France and Vietnam, all of which make coding a mandatory part of their curricula.  This dearth of opportunities could help explain why fewer than 1% of high school girls foresee themselves entering careers in computer science.Aug 22 min readEdCircuit Staff
  7. Five toddlers near the windowThe Power of Play: Sedentary Classrooms Lead to Disinterested StudentsPlay based learning, recess and classroom movement are backed by AAP and CDC guidance. Here is what each says and what schools can decide.Jul 296 min readEdCircuit Staff
  8. A crowd of graduates in black caps, several mortarboards decorated with the word DEBT in bold white letters, ceremony daylightHuge Debt and Small Salaries: Are Millennials Making Informed Decisions Regarding Their Education?As July comes to a close, thousands of families swarm to the nearest stores and begin to cross items off of their college checklist. For those who need reminding, no one college dorm room is alike. But, according to CENGAGE Learning’s 2015 Student Engagement Insights survey, many of these students have more in common than you think. When asked, “what are your goals after college?” 80% of college students responded that they want a “good job/better job”. Is this attainable for recent college grads? Forbes warns that it may not be.Jul 273 min readEdCircuit Staff
  9. A smiling boy wearing big over-ear headphones and a tan jacket standing in front of a blackboard covered in math equationsCan Math and Science Groove to Music?Educators want to pair math and music in integrated teaching methodApr 282 min readEdCircuit Staff
  10. Interlocking gears with school symbols turning together, an education force multiplierEducation System: Force Multiplier Needed?We have all watched enthralled at displays of coordinated teamwork, especially when each member of a sports team fulfills their individual role so well that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. At its best it looks almost effortless. That’s because no matter whether it is a high school basketball team or a professional football team or a cheerleading squad, the members all depend on each doing their job well and selflessly.  Mar 168 min readEdCircuit Staff
  11. A young man in profile looking at a laptop screen, with soft glowing app icons, chat bubbles and music notes floating above the screen, deep blue lightInformation Literacy Taking Center StageElecting a President Without FactsMar 113 min readEdCircuit Staff
  12. Dinner plate served with portions shaped like charts and data, a balanced diet of education dataA Balanced Diet of Education DataFrom The Washington PostFeb 33 min readEdCircuit Staff
  13. A crowd at a concert raises their hands in the air while a band performs on stage under blue and white lights, creating an energetic and lively atmosphere.Music for Education Picking Up STEAMEducation has become an experience, for a great number of students, that embodies a doctor’s visit and less like a visit to your local Science Center. Students are basically poked and prodded for data to satisfy funding allocation procedures by the very adults charged with forging a new and exciting path of study.Feb 34 min readEdCircuit Staff
  14. A deserted classroom with rows of benches and a whiteboard, captured in black and whiteWhere Are All The Black Teachers?From The Washington Post The number of black teachers has dropped in nine U.S.Feb 13 min readEdCircuit Staff
  15. A middle-aged man with gray hair and glasses, wearing a dark suit, speaks while facing slightly to the left. The background is blurred with blue and beige tones.Has the Final Bell Rung on Jeb Bush and His Education Plan?From POLITICO Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush offered a sweeping school choice-centric education plan Monday with proposals that would allow parents to spend government dollars on the pre-K program of their choice and give college students a $50,000 line of credit to pay tuition. Bush unveiled his plan on Martin Luther King Jr. Day as he fights to stay relevant in a GOP race dominated by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, invoking education as a civil rights issue.Jan 191 min readEdCircuit Staff
  16. A Black man in a suit speaks passionately into several microphones at an outdoor event, surrounded by others, with a crowd and police officers visible in the background.Where is Education’s MLK of 2016?From: The Atlantic by Melinda Anderson A year after leading thousands of protesters in the famous Selma-to-Montgomery march, Martin Luther King Jr. brought his campaign to end racial discrimination to Chicago. Rather than voting rights, the target was housing inequity in a city known in 1966—and even today—as the most racially segregated in the nation.Jan 181 min readEdCircuit Staff
  17. A clear glass light bulb lying on its side in fresh green grass, shallow depth of field, soft natural daylightWill the Power Ever Come on for Detroit Public Schools?From U.S. Uncut - Detroit’s students are trying to learn while breathing in black mold and sitting in classrooms filled with buckets catching toilet water leaking through the ceiling. And that’s not even the worst part. Republican Governor Rick Snyder is not only using the financial emergency management laws to poison children in Flint; he’s doing the same thing in Detroit via the public school system, which the state has controlled for the last seven years.Jan 182 min readEdCircuit Staff
  18. A smiling clown in white face paint with a round red foam nose and red lips, close crop against a plain white backgroundSTEM Funding to Cease Clowning Around?Excerpt from The Atlantic By ALANNA SCHUBACH  The irony of the cuts in funding for academic science is that the Obama administration has simultaneously made a big push for greater investment on STEM education. The president has called upon American universities to graduate 1 million more STEM majors than they do currently, a move that would ostensibly broaden the pool of applicants to graduate from science programs—the same ones that downsized in the wake of the sequester.Jan 131 min readEdCircuit Staff
  19. School backpack and gavel on New York courthouse steps, autism class action caseStudents with Autism Gain Class Action Status in New YorkJan 8, 2016 · by Beth Fertig From: WNYC Attorneys for New York students with autism and other disabilities claimed a major victory this week, after a federal judge granted class action status to a case that alleged the denial of education services. The ruling could affect more than 20,000 New York City students. The original plaintiffs, eight New York City students and their parents, sued in 2013 to prevent the loss of services including individualized instruction, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and support staff.Jan 121 min readEdCircuit Staff
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edCircuit is a mission-based organization entirely focused on the K-20 EdTech Industry and emPowering the voices that can provide guidance and expertise in facilitating the appropriate usage of digital technology in education. Our goal is to elevate the voices of today’s innovative thought leaders and edtech experts. Subscribe to receive notifications in your inbox

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