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Hearing about NY's new free college program? It'll help students, but there's more to it than meets the eye.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/04/11/523290884/here-s-the-fine-print-on-the-countrys-biggest-ever-free-college-plan

Here's The Fine Print On The Country's Biggest-Ever Free College Plan Freedom's just another word for ... a full-ride scholarship, with strings attached. New York's vast new scholarship program has brought praise, and some nitpicking.

Fighting Hate In Schools Hate is on the rise in U.S. schools. For students and educators, that means finding new ways to promote tolerance and inclusion.

Did you see Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's most recent statement on school choice? Read her full comments at the link below.

https://goo.gl/DKQk44

Analysis | DeVos: Picking a school should be like choosing among Uber, Lyft or a taxi Read the speech yourself.

Hunger when children are young can have painful effects for their academic success down the road.

https://goo.gl/jg57TZ

Kids Who Suffer Hunger In First Years Lag Behind Their Peers In School When infants and young kids grow up in homes without enough to eat, they're more likely to perform poorly in kindergarten, a study shows. The younger they experienced hunger, the stronger the effect.

Does adding devices to classrooms change how learning happens?

"Instead of filling an inbox on the teacher’s desk with packets and worksheets, students now completed the exact same procedures online. Rather than write homework assignments on the board, teachers posted them to the students’ digital news feeds. While blended learning brings with it the promise of innovation, there is the peril that it will perpetuate and replicate existing practices with newer, more expensive tools."

https://www.edutopia.org/article/are-we-innovating-or-just-digitizing-traditional-teaching-beth-holland

Are We Innovating, or Just Digitizing Traditional Teaching? Blended learning has the potential to transform the way teachers teach and students learn—if we take advantage of all that it offers

Ever wonder what the most recent former Secretary of Education, John King, thinks of the current proposed programs and budgets?

Now we know!

http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F49%2F%3Fuuid%3D65544&cmp=soc-edit-tw

Watch John King Talk Vouchers, Trump Budget in Facebook Live Interview Education Week correspondent Kavitha Cardoza sat down with former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr., who sharply criticized cuts to education programs proposed by President Donald Trump.

"We wanted to document this gap between public perception and good practice," he told NPR Ed. "In our paper we call it the, 'Been there, done that' problem. People went to school, so they have a feeling they know what good teaching looks like." But in fact, public opinion diverges from reality.

How do your beliefs about learning compare to what research has found?

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/03/22/520843457/you-probably-believe-some-learning-myths-take-our-quiz-to-find-out

You Probably Believe Some Learning Myths: Take Our Quiz To Find Out A new survey shows widespread misconceptions and unfounded confidence about learning.

Did you ever even think twice about the maps hanging in your classrooms? Boston schools are now giving students a more accurate look at the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/19/boston-public-schools-world-map-mercator-peters-projection

Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion A district will drop the distorted Mercator projection, which places imperialist Europe at the center of the world, for the Peters, a fairer guide to the globe

Some say that four-day school weeks save schools money. Others say that four-day weeks hurt students. Check out this article to learn more!

Join us at 6pm in Buttrick 212 for more on the latest in education!

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/what-if-students-only-went-to-school-for-four-days-a-week/520044/

Why More Rural Districts Are Moving to a Four-Day School Week There is a lack of conclusive evidence on the model's educational effects.

When we talk about improving schools, we too often forget about the importance of great principals.

Check out this op-ed from the NY Times on how principals can be a key to better schools.
https://goo.gl/IPFx7F

Want to Fix Schools? Go to the Principal’s Office Education reform often skips over one of the best solutions for helping students. Chicago shows how it can be done.