InformED Report

Beth Kobliner’s money lessons for parents, a Massachusetts budget day, fewer international applications to U.S. colleges, and San Antonio nature schools.

Harvard honours Rihanna’s education and health work, Australia enrols a record 554,179 international students, and the Supreme Court rules for Ehlena Fry.

Kenya plans to move university funding from the arts to technical schools, librarians weigh in on information literacy, and a Nepali student’s journey.

The InformED Report for April 25, 2017 covered the Bard Prison Initiative’s bachelor’s degrees at Woodbourne, LEAP Innovations’ ed tech pilots in Chicago, and responsive classrooms in Lidgerwood, North Dakota.

The InformED Report for April 25, 2017 covered new statewide assessments in Iowa and Nebraska, Montana’s House Bill 563 on preschool, and Everybody Wins! Atlanta’s 20th anniversary.

The InformED Report for April 24, 2017 looked at a Missouri district’s move to a four-day school week, Australian findings on classroom disorder, and a New Jersey principal who pushed his student through a 5K.

Expats rank Finland, Singapore and Switzerland best for education, the Supreme Court’s Endrew F. ruling, and PHIT America’s push for school fitness.

The April 17, 2017, InformED Report covered how podcasts with transcripts help students read, UNICEF’s finding that more than half of South Sudan’s children are out of school, and a grant for all-day kindergarten in Watertown, South Dakota.

The April 17, 2017, InformED Report covered the new California School Dashboard, rising international applications to Canadian universities, and Toyota’s gift of a laboratory to create a STEAM school in Northern Kentucky.