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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Barnes & Noble storefront at the University of Central Florida, with a modern building exterior, palm trees, large signs, and a clear blue sky in the background.Barnes & Noble Education Profit Falls 9.6%, Sales Outlook CutBarnes & Noble Education Inc. said its earnings fell 9.6% since bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. spun off the college business in August.Dec 91 min readEdCircuit Staff
  6. A young woman in a cream sweater typing on a laptop at a long wooden window bench beside an exposed brick wall, soft daylightFrom Tech Crunch: The New Digital Stars of Higher EducationPeripheral characters have a funny way of changing our perspective. Once bit players, they invert our understanding of the plot, turn heroes into villains and reframe the issues. Looking at challenge — or stories — from the outside-in brings minor events to the forefront of the narrative to help us figure out what really happened — and why.Dec 81 min readEdCircuit Staff
  7. Monitor showing Java programmingEducation World: TechCHAT: Talking Hour of Code with a UCF Education ProfessorDr. Megan Nickels is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the College of Education and Human Performance at the University of Central Florida. Nickels researches how children with critical and terminal illnesses (cancer, HIV/AIDS, sickle-cell disease, etc.) learn mathematics through the use of educational robotics, conducting her research using Wonder Workshop’s Dash and Dot robots and the Lego Mindstorms EV3 robotics kits.Dec 81 min readEdCircuit Staff
  8. School laptop with a glowing eye in its webcam, software spying on studentsAJC.com: Foundation says some education-oriented software “spies” on studentsThe Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the privacy of citizens in an age when websites, email providers and software makers suck up and store information on users, started the Spying on Students Campaign to make sure student information stays secure.Dec 81 min readEdCircuit Staff
  9. An empty vintage classroom with wooden desks and books on each desk, reflecting a classic educational setupFrom The Economist: Why private schooling is on the decline in EnglandEngland’s private schools are struggling to attract pupils. Although the number of school-age children has risen since 2008, independent schools have barely grown. As a result, the proportion of children at such schools has slipped from 7.2% to 6.9%, with absolute numbers falling everywhere apart from the prosperous south-east (see chart). Why are English parents—a famously pushy bunch—increasingly reluctant to pay for their children’s education?Dec 71 min readEdCircuit Staff
  10. Rising coin stacks like a chart with an apple on top, world teacher payThe Independent: Teacher pay chart shows world’s highest earning teachersTeachers in England are among the best paid in the world - but they fall far behind those in Luxembourg, where those in the profession can expect to get paid more than £60,000 a year.Dec 41 min readEdCircuit Staff
  11. Audience seated in a large lecture hall with red chairsFrom The Hindu: More students head to the U.S. for educationThe 2014-15 academic year saw a significant rise in the enrollment of Indian students, finds a report.Nov 301 min readEdCircuit Staff
  12. Teacher in a rebuilt classroom with children together under a painted dove, peacebuildingGlobal Partnership for Education: The crucial role of teachers in peacebuildingNew paper focuses on centrality of teachers to peacebuilding in post-conflict contextsNov 301 min readEdCircuit Staff
  13. A blue sign reading Yale University Saybrook College, 242 Elm St is mounted on a stone wall along a sidewalk, with people walking in the background on a rainy day.Yahoo News: Slow U.S. tuition growth is ‘new normal’ for higher education: Moody’s(Reuters) - U.S. universities and colleges should expect to see sluggish tuition growth next year, according to a report released Thursday by Moody's Investors Service.Nov 201 min readEdCircuit Staff
  14. A large group of college students sit and stand outside a brick building, wearing colorful T-shirts with Greek letters representing different fraternities and sororities.CSCF Announces Advancements for Fraternity/Sorority Assessment and Research BLOOMINGTON, November 19, 2015 -­‐ The Center for the Study of the College Fraternity (CSCF) is proud to announce significant advancements towards fraternity and sorority assessment and research. This includes a new survey, a new relationship with the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research (CPR) and the 2015 Association of Fraternity | Sorority Advisors/CSCF research grants and research award winners.  Nov 194 min readEdCircuit Staff
  15. Three women sitting around table using laptopsHechinger Report: Can Real Global Learning Happen Online?This fall, after getting to know each other in online video exchanges, some Ugandan high school students told a group of students in New Orleans that most Ugandans have no reliable electricity and use candles or lanterns after dark. Over the following weeks, the students worked together to build solar-powered lights. An education technology startup called Level Up Village supplied both schools with solar cells, batteries and LEDs, along with 3-D printers to fabricate the housings, tutorials on electricity and computer-aided design, and an online workspace for posting notes and swapping ideas.Nov 191 min readEdCircuit Staff
  16. Tortoise walking slowly past rolled diplomas on a campus lawn, slow growth in college degreesHechinger Report: Number of Americans with college degrees growing more slowly than advocates wantSlow rate of growth threatens to leave a gap of 20 million degree-holders by 2025Nov 191 min readEdCircuit Staff
  17. Logo for Tuition.io with the text TUITION.IO above the tagline STUDENT LOANS MADE SIMPLE. The letters I and O are in orange and blue, respectively.Tuition.io Secures $5M in Series A Financing from MassMutual Ventures and Wildcat Venture PartnersEmployer Student Loan Contribution Platform Enables Companies to Attract & Retain Millennial Talent. At the intersection of Fintech and Education, Tuition.io Addresses the $1.3 Trillion U.S. Loan CrisisNov 185 min readEdCircuit Staff
  18. African secondary school students in white shirts sharing a textbook and reading at wooden desks in a brick-walled classroom, natural daylightUN News Centre: Access to higher education doesn’t always lead to lower unemployment — UN labour agency17 November 2015 – Workers with post-secondary education are more likely to be unemployed in lower-income countries, reflecting a “mismatch” between skilled persons and the number of available jobs matching their competencies and expectations, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO).Nov 181 min readEdCircuit Staff
  19. The logo for Education Management Corporation features the acronym EDMC in large blue capital letters above the full name Education Management Corporation in black text, separated by a horizontal line.For-Profit College System Expected to Pay MillionsThe nation’s second-largest for-profit college operator, Education Management Corporation, is expected to agree to pay nearly $90 million to settle a case accusing it of compensating employees based on how many students they enrolled, encouraging hyperaggressive boiler room tactics to increase revenue.Nov 161 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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