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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Yellow school bus on road during daytimeArabic Assignment Closing Schools Begs Bigger QuestionStatement from Augusta County Public SchoolsDec 212 min readEdCircuit Staff
  10. Two children painting pumpkins indoors for Halloween, surrounded by decorative elementsFrom NPR: School Arts Advocates Cheer New Education MeasureIn this country, President Obama signed a new education law last week. Much of the focus has been on testing and a debate over whether the law moved too far away from rigorous standards. But one group celebrating the law advocates for arts education. NPR's Elizabeth Blair explains why.Dec 171 min readEdCircuit Staff
  11. Students talking in a lecture hall classroomUSA Today: Special education teacher shortage creates opportunity for studentsNoel Frye was smiling ear to ear. “Me graduate,” she said, recalling her accomplishment.Dec 151 min readEdCircuit Staff
  12. A woman with shoulder-length dark hair speaks at a podium with a microphone, smiling. She wears a white top with green and blue accents. The background is out of focus with brown curtains.Tech Times: Michelle Obama Shows Off Rap Skills To Promote College EducationFirst Lady Michelle Obama upped the funk when she danced to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk" and now she's rapping her heart out to convince high school kids to "Go To College" in a  College Humor music video. Yes, you already read it right the first time: the First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) showed off her rap skills in a music video.Dec 141 min readEdCircuit Staff
  13. A school computer lab with rows of desktop computers along the walls, students in casual clothes typing at keyboards, bright fluorescent ceiling lightNew Education Bill to Get More Coding in ClassroomsThe sweeping bipartisan education bill signed into law on Thursday contained a nugget of good news for the tech industry: Computer science has been recognized as important an academic subject as math and English, potentially introducing it into more classrooms across the U.S.Dec 141 min readEdCircuit Staff
  14. Two young girls writing and learning in a bright classroom settingU.S. News: State Education Funding Hasn’t Recovered from RecessionThe Great Recession may be officially over, but state spending on K-12 education hasn't recovered.Dec 111 min readEdCircuit Staff
  15. Student in a wheelchair taking a test on a tablet, testing students with disabilitiesDisability Scoop: Education Law Tightens Testing Cap For Students With DisabilitiesWith a new federal law, the nation’s education landscape is getting an overhaul and advocates say they expect the changes are a step in the right direction for students with disabilities.Dec 111 min readEdCircuit Staff
  16. A man in a dress shirt speaks to a large, diverse group of enthusiastic children wearing Lets Move! T-shirts; many kids are smiling and raising their hands outdoors.NBC News: Obama Signs Education Law Rewrite; Power Shifts to StatesWith his signature Thursday, President Barack Obama is setting the nation's public schools on a sweeping new course of accountability that will change the way teachers are evaluated and how the poorest performing schools are pushed to improve.Dec 101 min readEdCircuit Staff
  17. Health classroom with an anatomy model and a graded checklist, grading sex educationLos Angeles Times: CDC grades American schools on how well they teach sex educationAmerican high schools got generally good marks for their teaching of topics related to sex education, but there are still many areas in need of improvement, according to a new report card from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Dec 101 min readEdCircuit Staff
  18. Ribbon-tied bill waiting on a presidential desk with a pen, a law heading to the presidentEducation Week: ESEA Rewrite Passes Senate, Heads to President’s DeskHear that collective whoop from the Capitol? That's the sound of education advocates and lawmakers cheering at the finish line as the first rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in more than a dozen years sails through Congress and on to the White House. Dec 101 min readEdCircuit Staff
  19. A pile of colorful plastic interlocking math counting cubes in red, yellow, green, blue and black on a classroom table, close up, bright lightFrom The Atlantic: Why Are So Many Preschoolers Getting Suspended?Tunette Powell travels across the country counseling families and mentoring youth. An award-winning motivational speaker and author, her professional work in the education field ranges from training nonprofit leaders to consulting for colleges and universities. But none of Powell’s career-related skills could prepare her for the frustration and helplessness of seeing her two sons suspended from preschool, which she pegged to overly harsh and racially biased discipline. In a July 2014 Washington Post opinion piece that gained national attention, Powell relates how her boys—ages 3 and 4—were suspended from their Omaha preschool program eight times total in one year. Once published, the essay resonated with readers nationwide. “So many parents reached out [to me] … a lot of black mothers” who shared her experience with excessive suspensions, said Powell. “We live in a time when we just say, ‘Suspend them, get rid of them.’”Dec 91 min readEdCircuit Staff
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